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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 Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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 The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
I have seldom witnessed a more amazing cataclysm of jocundity!
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Montrose Jonas Moses
She carried a delightful jocundity wherever she went.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
However, his spirits were not in their usual flow of jocundity just now, and his lively face was dashed with care.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
In spite of such feeble jocundities, Spenser easily gets the goods on the errant pitcher.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Mr. Harold Smith was in earnest, and did not quite relish these jocundities.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
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