And it's just the jolly joking things, The never mind the trouble things, The laugh with me, it's funny things, That make the world seem bright. From LearnThat.org. [Grace Haines.]
You know, I was just what I call a jolly girl when. From Wordnik.com. [This Is the End] Reference
"Well, that's what I call a jolly good riddance of bad rubbish,". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
The fog was as thick as anything we had ever seen, even in jolly old England. From Wordnik.com. [The Sig Robertson Crew's 10th Mission 11 July 1944 to Munich, Germany] Reference
It can be built, in jolly quick time, when a nation has access to its own MONEY. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Books-a-Million] Reference
Scalia deadpans, "And that's why we don't use the word jolly-woggle instead of the F-word.". From Wordnik.com. [George Loper's Website] Reference
Back in jolly old Britain is Deryn Sharp, who is training to be an airman in the British Air Service. From Wordnik.com. [2009 November « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
The parents just arrived in jolly old england yesterday, and I am in official tour guide status mode. From Wordnik.com. [Time is not on my side..] Reference
On November 3rd, the DVD/Blu-Ray editions of The Colour of Magic will be released in jolly old England, and other parts of Region 2. From Wordnik.com. [Tube Bits for 10/28/2008] Reference
On these terms the jolly tale is a jolly tale, and ends at that. From Wordnik.com. [Change in the Village] Reference
Then I recall a jolly vanload of wounded men I saw out there. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
They Fight Like Soldiers isn't what you'd call a jolly stocking-filler. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
And as to Square, who was in his person what is called a jolly fellow, or. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Overall, it's silly, frilly and jolly, which is what the '60s were, right?. From Wordnik.com. [TVGuide.com: Breaking News] Reference
With Janet, they made up what the rest of the girls called the jolly trio. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
"I'm getting her in good shape for you, messmates!" called the jolly sailor. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
Pullmans are ` motorcoaches, 'not railway cars, and a jolly is a ` joker,' as in card games. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
I can think of no happier way of spending it than in seeing you all again and recalling the jolly old Prague days. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
Each day we give ourselves up, every one of us, to real, genuine fun -- to having what may be called a jolly time. '. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School] Reference
It was a great stone kitchen, with an immense fire-place, in which blazed what Archie had with justice described as a jolly fire. From Wordnik.com. [Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission] Reference
'I say, Mr. Anne, sir, it's what you would call a jolly mess, ain't it? looks like "clean bowled-out in the middle stump," don't it?'. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
'That's what I call jolly fun!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
"This is what I call jolly," remarked Barney. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Rattler] Reference
'Now that's what I call jolly,' said the other. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
"Well, this is what I call jolly," cried Percy. From Wordnik.com. [Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand] Reference
That sign outside said 'jolly' and you aren't jolly. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
It tickled at him with a kind of jolly pervasive horror. From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
Root out "jolly" and you have to root out all these oddities – and the gorse bushes, too. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference
She calls a jolly pleaseman, it happens to be me. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
For the Season that at any rate's conventionally "jolly,". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890] Reference
It is as far from being "jolly" as a place can be -- nor is it. From Wordnik.com. [Man and Maid] Reference
'If I were you,' said Hazel, 'I would make Mr. Charteris so "jolly". From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
He was thoroughly "jolly" and good-natured, yet full of force and character. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
Besides, she was "jolly," and jollity went a long way in Ramble Valley popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904] Reference
Then I felt the awfully ill chosen word "jolly" was -- but I could not alter it. From Wordnik.com. [Man and Maid] Reference
Clement says I mustn't keep saying 'jolly'; he says 'nice' would be better in a book. From Wordnik.com. [Peterkin] Reference
Union; and was altogether so cheerful and brisk that "jolly" was the word generally applied to her. From Wordnik.com. [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference
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