jocoseness

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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 Roby, John

Indifferent to the progress of time, Bevis talked on with his usual jocoseness, now and then shaking his tawny hair in a fit of laughter the most contagious.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

He had not the customary jocoseness when they met at the close of day; he asked no questions about how she had spent her time; his manner was preoccupied.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

"I know the furnishing of every third-floor front on the line," she replied, with a dreary attempt at jocoseness.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie

But Cowper's hares never appealed to the popular heart with the force of Burns's sheep and mice and dogs, and the tender familiarity and wistful jocoseness of his poems to beasts have never been surpassed.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan