jocundity

By no means undignified, the face presented that combination of slyness and jocundity which we are accustomed to imagine of the canonical jolly-dogs in mediaeval tales.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

However, his spirits were not in their usual flow of jocundity just now, and his lively face was dashed with care.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

"Tu es juif, n'est ce pas?" said the big man, with a sort of bullying jocundity.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

The swaggering jocundity of his manner had all gone.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

Mrs. Howitt naively, 'the young reformers indulged in much jocundity when the day's work was done.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

The first was answered in a tone of bullying jocundity.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

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.

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

She could remember no more of them than that they had seemed to hold a high singing and jocundity, issuing from some region of haze and golden light; and they seemed to hover, ever on the point of being recaptured, yet ever eluding all her mental efforts.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

Lorelei realized before long that this very jocundity of his, since it fed upon constant change and excitement, constituted the gravest menace to their happiness.

The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Before their imperturbable jocundity what bad humour can exist?

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905