The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
However, his spirits were not in their usual flow of jocundity just now, and his lively face was dashed with care. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly-dogs in mediaeval tales. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
Mademoiselle, too, seemed affected by the sweetness and jocundity of the early day. From Wordnik.com. [An Enemy to the King] Reference
Page view page image: and make the old building ring with merriment, till it was astonished at its own jocundity. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
I pleased myself with the idea how completely, when I came to the estate, I would renovate all things, and make the old building ring with merriment, till it was astonished at its own jocundity. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
Ornament -- strange as the doctrine sounds in a world decivilized -- was in the beginning intended to be something jocund; and jocundity was never to be achieved but by postponement, deference, and modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
She could remember no more of them than that they had seemed to hold a high singing and jocundity, issuing from some region of haze and golden light; and they seemed to hover, ever on the point of being recaptured, yet ever eluding all her mental efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
Apostles, and all jocundity of Leading-Articles, are gone out, and it is become bitter earnest instead; polished satire changed now into coarse pike-points (hammered out of railing); all logic reduced to this one primitive thesis, An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The truth is, James, like a true student, indulged, even to his dress, an utter carelessness of parade, and there was in his character a constitutional warmth of heart and a jocundity of temper which did not always adapt it to state-occasions; he threw out his feelings, and sometimes his jests. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
At that season those who had gone down to pace the beach and ask of the sea and sky what message they reported or what vision they affirmed had to consider among the usual tokens of divine bounty — the sunset on the sea, the pallor of dawn, the moon rising, fishing-boats against the moon, and children making mud pies or pelting each other with handfuls of grass, something out of harmony with this jocundity and this serenity. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
To speak the truth, he had wantonly involved himself in a multitude of small book-debts of this stamp, which, notwithstanding Eugenius’s frequent advice, he too much disregarded; thinking, that as not one of them was contracted thro’ any malignancy;—but, on the contrary, from an honesty of mind, and a mere jocundity of humour, they would all of them be cross’d out in course. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
To speak the truth, he had wantonly involved himself in a multitude of small book-debts of this stamp, which, notwithstanding Eugenius’s frequent advice, he too much disregarded; thinking, that as not one of them was contracted thro’ any malignancy; — but, on the contrary, from an honesty of mind, and a mere jocundity of humour, they would all of them be cross’d out in course. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
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