most jocund

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Pietro was in his most jocund mood that morning, jauntily swinging his cane, joking about the Rialto as they crossed it, and talking a great deal about London and Paris.

From Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon by Blanchard, Lucy M.

Bowers the most jocund bacchanal of all; the operator boxed over his instrument against harm and slipped out; and Shelby was left solitary with the litter and the lees.

From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee

I knew it: and Mutilia the most jocund.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben

But you can't hold much wassail on the juice of the elderberry; it ain't the most jocund stuff the world as fermented by Metta's mother.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,     To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William