Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Charles, however, on account of his "jollity" and Spanish experience took him with him to Spain in 1659, though his presence was especially deprecated by the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
96) Yet it seems that the omission of all jollity from the book was the result not so much of a blind spot as of self-censorship. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier] Reference
They lacked the grotesque jollity of the Ladakhis of. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Here they all had punch and an "hour or so of jollity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
The whole party had an air of Bohemian ease and jollity. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The policy of the Americans was to go in for utter jollity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Most of the passengers and all the jollity went in this class. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The general taste is for jollity, bright colour, cheerful music. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
"Ay, I've had little time for jollity this many a year," agreed Master. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
But it was anything but cold when we got inside -- open fires and jollity!. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
On seeing him, the old fiddler cried out, "By Jove, how I envy the fellow's jollity!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
All were out for a good time, and the atmosphere of good will and jollity was infectious. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
"Planning something new?" asked Mr. Jenks, with an attempt at jollity, which, however, failed. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference
Even Dickens 'hero could not have given such an air of jollity to a festive occasion like this. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
These affairs should be purely spontaneous and informal, and occasions of much fun and jollity. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
It had an adolescent coarseness and an air of studied jollity, as if he knew he was being watched. From Wordnik.com. ['His Name's Dutch Reagan'] Reference
The Mela lasts a couple of weeks, and it is a season of fun and jollity with both planters and natives. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Such uproarious jollity, such full and perfect enjoyment, I had never seen in humanity, black or white. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
I not only see jollity in the face, but laughter as well; in the statue, not only excitement, but running. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The meal was excellent, as Mrs. Layton's always were, and there was a great deal of jollity as it progressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
There was too much leisure, too much jollity, and too much colour for the work-a-day crowd of the West or of China. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Ever since that time Hans resided in the village, and that is as much as to say that mirth and jollity abode there. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The negroes look forward to Christmas not less as the season for present-giving than that of frolicking and jollity. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Alice was like her dead mother, happy, full of life and jollity, and her brown eyes generally sparkled with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
The feast proceeded with redoubled jollity, and louder than ever were the sagacity and justice of the Sultan extolled. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
In this group about thirty men and women were making the ground quake and the woods ring with their unrestrained jollity. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
"Sure, and I don't see where your ` jollity 'comes in, Master Bob!" observed his aunt, not by any means relishing the prospect. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
As the afternoon began to decline, their jollity began to rise, and ere the sun had set, the grog had risen high in their heads. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Every master brought his men and his horses and bullocks to the fray, and at seven o'clock in the morning the work and jollity began. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
For he played a ghostly and weird and awful theme, which stilled merriment and chilled jollity, and seemed to fill the night with phantoms. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Gayety did not prevail, nor is there anywhere among the Danubian Slavs a tendency to the innocent and spontaneous jollity so common in some sections of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The girl kept up a conversation with Aunt Susan on the sewing, or a fire of mirth and jollity with Nathan or Luther, with this undercurrent of thought always going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
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