Use "jocose" in a sentence

1. clipped, curt, jocose, red as the wattles of turkeys, using free speech until Mrs

2. From the time of my being chosen into the council; and, indeed, for some years before, Mr Hirple had been a member, but, from some secret and unexpressed understanding among us, he was never made a bailie; for he was not liked; having none of that furthy and jocose spirit so becoming in a magistrate of that degree, and to which the gifts of gravity and formality make but an unsubstantial substitute

3. I therefore resolved to set my face against this for the future; and accordingly, when we had enjoyed a jocose temperance of loyalty and hilarity, with a decent measure of wine, I filled a glass, and requesting all present to do the same, without any preliminary reflections on the gavaulling of past times, I drank good afternoon to each severally, and then rose from the table, in a way that put an end to all the expectations of more drink

4. The old man, who had put on his short sheepskin jacket, was just as good-humored, jocose, and free in his movements

5. gentry, elated with their silver-headed whips and satin stocks, but embarrassed in their manners, and timidly jocose: even Fred was above them, having at least the accent and manner of a university man

6. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant

7. The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigirin talks

8. The dinner and the champagne that accompanied it greatly cheered the old prince ; he ate a great deal and was very jocose

9. It reminded one of a jocose person who, covering his mouth with a pillow, shouts from an adjoining room, trying to mimic the sound of two peasants calling to one another in a deserted plain or across a wide ravine—a performance to which I once had the pleasure of listening in a friend's house at Christmas

10. He was just twisting his mouth into a jocose smile, but he instantly checked himself

11. The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigírin talks