jocoseness
Example Sentences
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To tell the truth, a part of his jocoseness was a blind; he was the greatest peace-maker, except Mr. Harmony in the play, that ever was born.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
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
"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 Arlo Bates
"Am I of any consequence?" he asked, with an effort at jocoseness.
From Jewel's Story Book by Clara Louise Burnham
"I have been giving you the opinion of the higher court," he said, with his nearest approach to jocoseness.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
