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This disk, which completes a set of the four Nielsen quartets in clean, brisk performances by the Copenhagen String Quartet, offers no more than a pleasing minor work �buoyant, masculine, at times jocosely rustic.

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Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath.

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He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs, a $400,000 yacht on which he once jocosely ran up a flag bearing skull & crossbones.

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British Cabinet members openly, jocosely showed their lack of interest in the air force.

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This was not merely an excuse, but a fact, upon which Tom Murdock built much consolation for his "partial failure," as he himself jocosely called it; but he was savage at heart.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.