Many a glad good morrow and jocund laugh from the young folk Made the bright air brighter. From LearnThat.org. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline.]
Adjective : a witty and jocund group. From Dictionary.com.
"Glad" is from the Greek word for laughter, and the word "jocund" comes from a Latin term signifying "pleasant.". From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
To call the jocund Hours on thee to wait. From Wordnik.com. [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference
And blurred the jocund face of bright-cheek'd day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
In the jocund tide that sweeps dark and dusk away. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
O listen, Pholoe! with thee are youth and jocund May. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
The jocund hospitable disposition of Gibson -- 'Bachelor. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Many a glad good-morrow and jocund laugh from the young folk. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
We append some extracts, culled at random from these jocund pages. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917] Reference
All the jocund birds sang to her, o'er her fell the spring-time rains. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
On what light and jocund scenes we look! on what deep and dearer bliss!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Now the sky was lighted up a rosy red, so fast came on the 'jocund morn. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
It was with almost a jocund heart I turned my back on Glencoe as we took. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
A number of women were present; and a whole bevy of jocund boys enjoyed it. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
For he was riding through an air almost jocund, and his spirit sang within him. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Shelby missed its import and laughed it aside for a random fling of jocund Fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
The captain was five feet four inches in height, round, ruddy, mellow and jocund. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
Edgar came down from the Hill in the sunshine, handsome, strong, jocund as the day. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
The jocund travellers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew and named them every one. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
He quickened his already jocund step to meet Miss Maitland at the intersection of their ways. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The occasions are similar and mournful, although the contests are inspired by, and inspire a jocund mood. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
With flushed faces, jocund laughter, and the incessant pop of the champagne corks, the time flew unheeded past. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Over a city distracted by factions and civil broils, he saw the devils very jocund, blowing the fire of discord. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Bowers the most jocund bacchanal of all; the operator boxed over his instrument against harm and slipped out; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Here was a rustic bridge spanning the jocund brook; there a willow-bordered pond, the home of gold and silver fish. From Wordnik.com. [Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain] Reference
The sounds were sportive and jocund; they rippled like laughter; they were capricious as the merriment of a coquette. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Plenty returned to abide there, and Prosperity re-appeared, leading Hope, Comfort, Peace, and Joy in her jocund train. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
His roving spirit still and his jocund voice now mute, he sleeps soundly under the sighing trees of Hollywood -- that populous. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Here was the paradise of dreams -- bright colours, sweet sounds, fragrant odours, gentle beings, fair peace, and jocund plenty!. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
A fair and jocund day departed, and suddenly a dark cloud mantled the heavens, and the moonless night was falling dismal and drear. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
India -- well, Zephyr's jocund breezes, as Catullus hath it, will waft you thither: we are flying to the bright cities of the East. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Treasurer's College, orders the members to fulfil honestly their jocund advent in accordance with the advice of their fellow students. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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