jocoseness
Example Sentences
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No magazine of mirth exploded; no mine was sprung; and James entered into his chamber without any visible expression of jocoseness issuing from the fertile brains of Sir John Finett.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
For ease and jocoseness of description it stands almost unapproachable.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The only talkative one of the party was Mr Bloxam, whose tongue continually tingled with ponderous jocoseness that had a strongly Scriptural flavour.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
And, by the way," said the parson, stooping to Scotch in his ministerial jocoseness, "how's auld Tam, in whose class you were a prize-winner?
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
