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 Roby, John

"I went there, but I had taken flight," the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness.

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

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 Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

"Well," said the widow, more affably, "say you are—" "I are engaged to be married," promptly struck in the major, with untimely jocoseness.

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons

Under all the big man's apparent fierceness there had been a flash of rough jocoseness in his tones at times.

From The Rainy Day Railroad War by Day, Holman