de Beausset ventured with respectful
jocularity to remark that there is no reason for not having lunch when one can get it.
He was not cast in the stern poetical mold of fashionable Indian heroism, but on the contrary, was grievously given to vulgar
jocularity. As he passed Mr.
In point of literary merit the new was inferior to the old-- was even repulsive in its terse and savage
jocularity:
All such professors of the several branches of
jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which give law its vitality.
Front-de-B uf, on the contrary, seemed impatient of their ill-timed
jocularity.
A circumstance which he related to Captain Bonneville, gave some insight into the cause of this extreme
jocularity on the part of the Crows.
Over the barton-gate the dairyman saw them, and came forward, throwing into his face the kind of
jocularity deemed appropriate in Talbothays and its vicinity on the re-appearance of the newly-married.
Carr, with an attempt at
jocularity that did not, however, disguise an irritated suspiciousness.
But we had an extremely successful trip, and for most of the time Dominic displayed an unwonted
jocularity of a dry and biting kind with which, he maintained, he had been infected by no other person than myself.
Lest it should be matter of surprise to any, that Mr Willet adopted this bold course in opposition to one whom he had often entertained, and who had always paid his way at the Maypole gallantly, it may be remarked that it was his very penetration and sagacity in this respect, which occasioned him to indulge in those unusual demonstrations of
jocularity, just now recorded.
'Little to do, and plenty to get, I suppose?' said Serjeant Buzfuz, with
jocularity.
Newman had spoken with cheerful seriousness, but Madame de Bellegarde's tone made him go on, after a meditative pause, with a certain light grimness of
jocularity. "No, I lost money on wash-tubs, but I came out pretty square on leather."