jocoseness

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"Could I speak to you alone for a moment?" said I. Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles

“May be not; perhaps hers were so homely they wouldn’t have sold anyway,” suggested Katherine with an attempt at jocoseness.

From Betty Wales Freshman by Dunton, Edith K.

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

Singularly enough, this letter begins in the following strain of bibliographical jocoseness: "Monsieur, et tr�s reverend Fr�re de Boocace l'Immortel!"

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall