jovialty

All of a sudden, in my dream of me chasing a Chrysler LeBarron, I hear doors slamming, laughter, jovialty, filtering in, nay blasting, from my hallway.

Archive 2005-03-01 Michelle Collins 2005

DOBBS: And how much, in your judgment, of the optimism that Reagan brought, you mentioned the jovialty, his sense of humor, but a sense of optimism, how much of that has endured from his presidency to this day?

CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004 2004

For some students are so deeply learnt, that they consume the monies they get in mirth and jovialty, and leave their Landladies,

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Amid the jovialty of such an entertainment, Gonzaga entertained little doubt of learning the truth.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

Hodges exclaimed, with a jovialty meant to be winning.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

Everybody knows the merits of that story, its inexhaustible fertility of comparison, its dialectic ingenuity, its jovialty, its drollery, its Rabelaisian laughter.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

—A large family supper party, a night or two ago, with voices and laughter of the young, mellow faces of the old, and a by-and-by pause in the general jovialty.

Small Memoranda. November Boughs 1892

The London "Lancet," the most eminent medical journal in the world, gives the following scientific testimony to the value of jovialty: --

Cheerfulness as a Life Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

Because of the presence among them of their northern relatives, this winter was made a gayer one than either of the last two, which had seen little mirth or jovialty among the older ones, subdued as they were by recent, repeated bereavements.

Elsie's Motherhood Martha Finley 1868

Meanwhile, Keona re-entered the cavern with a diabolical grin on his sable countenance, which, although it savoured more of evil than of any other quality, had in it, nevertheless, a strong dash of ferocious jovialty, as if he were aware that he had got his enemies into a trap, and could amuse himself by playing with them as a cat does with a mouse.

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859