jocundity

Example Sentences

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I have seldom witnessed a more amazing cataclysm of jocundity!

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Moses, Montrose Jonas

It was all endured easily enough, and now and then there were outbursts of rollicking jocundity in spite of it The mere physical suffering of privation is not a thousandth part of its pain.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by Murray, David Christie

But they were now increasing the size of the letters in the advertisements and the jocundity of the pictures,—and the thing might be done.

From The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony

Fanny, who had ever forced herself to the diffusion of merriment when there was cheerlessness to be dispelled, reflected with happy eyes the old-time jocundity now reawakened.

From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Mademoiselle, too, seemed affected by the sweetness and jocundity of the early day.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson