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Not a word did she say of how she had mistreated him, and Solita answered her jocundly for that her lord had held his pledge with her.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Beyond her dreariest ken of muffled voices, beyond her dingiest vista of slate and brick, on a far faint hillside, a far faint streak of April green went roaming jocundly skyward.

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

A lone son following a lone son, and he another--it was sad to contemplate, in that colonial beginning of days, three generations of good, Gallic blood tripping jocundly along in attenuated Indian file.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

The experienced performer who acted the heroines now came forward and disported most jocundly.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The reviving day, laughing jocundly through his lattice, dispelled all the fears and superstitions that belong to night.

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron