Mr. Chambers did not by any means relish this jocularityupon a matter of which pars magna fuit[766], and seemed impatient till he got rid of us.
It should seem he had that day been in a humour forjocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily.
The friction did not last long; a marked improvement was felt by all, and Wagner's irrepressible animal spirits and jocularity won over even the drudges.
Full of fun, his jocularity harmonized completely with Wagner's own humour, and, united with Louis, the three were ever at their most comfortable and happy ease.
Father,' she said earnestly, not heeding the jocularity of his tone, 'this is very serious.
But it was in his own state-room that George Wentworth's jocularity came out at its best.
The jocularity pivoted unendingly on the same twin centres of alcohol and concupiscence.
The situation, horribly humiliating for Lucas and also for George, provided pleasure for half the chauffeurs and drivers in Piccadilly Circus, and was the origin of much jocularity of a kind then fairly new.
I wish," said Denis, "that it was only jocularity on my part; but I solemnly assure you all that it is not.
With the usual jocularity of our forefathers, an opportunity for punning could not be passed, so instead of the three cranes, which in the vintry used to lift the barrels of wine, three birds were represented.
It was an old signboard jocularity in France to represent St John the Baptist by a monkey with cambric (batiste) ruffles and wristbands, (singe en batiste.
In such a condition, misapprehensions were natural; jocularity might be mistaken for sarcasm, and caprice felt as insolence.
Mansell's mood had become one of clumsy jocularity under the influence of the brandy.
Their seared faces expressed every variety of mental attitude, from fierce jocularity down to the blackest hatred of interference from those whose authority had become anathema to them.
There is a light-hearted jocularity about his communications, and I should think the cares of life sat easily on him.
The following is a fair example:— I am sure I should like that fellow Egerton; there is a big-hearted jocularity about his communications, and I should think the cares of life sat easily on him.
This attempted jocularitydrew as much mirth as an undertaker's final invitation to the mourners to take the last, long look at the departed.
As the companies lined up in the village street in full marching order, awaiting the command to move, several half-hearted attempts at jocularity died cold.
There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed to-day.
Mr. Skimpole, receiving this new light with a most agreeable jocularity of surprise.
It would be contradictory for one in mademoiselle's state of agreeable jocularity to foam at the mouth, otherwise a tigerish expansion thereabouts might look as if a very little more would make her do it.
I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence.
He, besides, possessed all that merriness and jocularity which I have often observed among a number of the males of his race.
The perilous situations in which Baillie was often placed did not repress the merry jocularity and sarcastic wit which he, in common with many of his tribe, possessed.
Nobody enjoyed the jocularity of the business more than myself; but I trembled when I thought of the escape that my honour and character had with the lord advocate.
And his eye livened into something of its nativejocularity as I told him of the rain-maker.
And he endeavored by a forced jocularity to encourage his own sinking heart.
The power had been possessed in vain if it had never been exerted; and it was not my custom to let any arts of jocularity remain unemployed.
Nothing is more despicable than the airiness and jocularity of a man bred to severe science, and solitary meditation.
The result of this jocularity was briefly given in a later copy of "The Avalanche.
A very primitive-looking man was old Peter, but as full of eccentricity and solemn jocularity as an egg is full of meat.
He was a tall, handsome man, with eyes twinkling with the humour and jocularity which made him such an agreeable companion.
There was still a general feeling of half-repressed jocularityabout it all, but, nevertheless, the committee was duly appointed.
Some who were present regarded the matter as serious enough; others were inclined to permit themselves a sort of clerical jocularity concerning it; he himself tried to throw into the talk the weight he felt it deserved.
His rudeness might have originated in the coarse jocularity of a soldier, stimulated by too fervid an application to the bottle.
So long as the world went well with him, Mathew seemed to enjoy life thoroughly, and even its rubs he bore with an easy jocularity that showed what a stout heart he could oppose to Fortune.
If Brydges had not been so absorbed in the jocularity of his own sensations, he would have observed that his chief remained singularly silent.
The East will not see the jocularity of that fact.
At last this latter individual got so far the better of her jocularity that she was able to deport herself with outward seriousness when she emerged from the mysterious closet, and said to the Individual, "Walk in.
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