jocoseness

Example Sentences

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It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

"Mrs. Sampson passes the whole of Sunday forenoon committing the society columns of the Gossip to memory, and wishing her name was there," he chuckled, with a jocoseness which seemed to that lady extremely ill-timed.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo

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

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

Who does trouble themselves about Sir Dugald, and his amiably ponderous jocoseness?

From Theo A Sprightly Love Story by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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