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Nothing could be more jocund, more typical, of the young men and the trail.

From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

So ended for me an evening more jocund than I have had the good grace to admit.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 1, 1919 by Various

Assuming a more jocund air, he trips from house to house announcing little strangers.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

And yet there is scarce any nation of a more jocund converse, or that is less sensible of the misery of old age, than they are.

From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson

Who were more liberal-hearted, lofty-minded, gayer, more jocund, elastic, adventurous, given to fun and frolic, than the top-men of the fore, main, and mizzen masts?

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville



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