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jollity
1. “Anyway, let’s talk about something lighter,” the warden chirped, all of the jollity back in his demeanour
2. 8 Beware that you are not deceived and brought down in your jollity
3. youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their
4. The Harry I know and …” she was almost caught out in the jollity of the occasion, “look out for” she hastily finished off with but the line felt disjointed and Harry picked up on it immediately
5. 8 The husbands of these in the prime of their youthful vigour instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings and saw only the grave at hand
6. Watching unlovely relatives and others stuff fodder into their gobs like starving pigs should have featured in Dante’s circles of hell, along with all that determined jollity among people who normally wouldn’t give each other the time of day
7. It greeted with jollity the jellies and the medusae
8. ” Mungo's laugh was pitiful, but such a brave attempt at jollity showed his inner strength
9. Susan hadn’t the strength to face them in their enforced mid-week alcoholic jollity after the encounter with her mother
10. There was a stunned silence, and suddenly the jollity stopped,
11. '_Prachtvoll_, nicht?' I heard her say with an odious jollity through the singing in my ears
12. Four times did the botas bear being uplifted, but the fifth it was all in vain, for they were drier and more sapless than a rush by that time, which made the jollity that had been kept up so far begin to flag
13. It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwonted jollity that brightened the faces of the people
14. His father addressed her with forced jollity
15. He’s always been, despite that menacing jollity of his, sort of a cipher
16. At which point I blurted out, with forced jollity, “I like Irwin’s new suit! He’s looking dashing!” I was smiling on-screen, but inside, my ego was hissing, You are a dope
17. The corners of her mouth voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to call a halt
18. Wedded, with Theseus, an in jollity
19. In nightly revels and new jollity
20. Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask
21. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them
22. Blest with love and jollity
23. “Ay, I’ve had little time for jollity this many a year,” agreed Master Ogilvie, with a ponderous wink behind his daughter’s back
