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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
The only thing that now distinguished this portion of the beach from the rest was a certain heightened jocundity in the advertisements on the sides of the bathing-machines at that spot.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
But they were now increasing the size of the letters in the advertisements and the jocundity of the pictures,—and the thing might be done.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
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 The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
She carried a delightful jocundity wherever she went.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
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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