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  • She strung up clotheslines across the backyard and whenever we looked out the window we could see the private undergarments of people we did not know—the lonely shipping heir, the jovial bachelor doctor, the glamorous war widow whose young husband had died on Omaha Beach ("Introduce her to them!" we'd suggested to our mother as she hung up their things side by side, to which she had replied, "It's too soon")—floating ghostlike between the bare black branches of the trees.†   (source)
  • "One of the old gang," my dad says jovially, and I cringe.†   (source)
  • Watching this jovial group, I found myself overcome with sadness.†   (source)
  • He was always the jovial presence at the door, a solid set of shoulders ever ready to help, but I'd never really gone much deeper.†   (source)
  • AS THEY WALK TO AUSCHWITZ, BARETSKI SEEMS IN A JOVIAL mood and peppers Lale with questions.†   (source)
  • "I'd go with you," the boy said in a far too jovial voice, "but I don't wanna die a gruesome death."†   (source)
  • Portly and ruby-faced, Sir Leigh Teabing had bushy red hair and jovial hazel eyes that seemed to twinkle as he spoke.†   (source)
  • After an hour or two of anxious talk, he relaxed a bit and seemed to return to the jovial Walter I'd come to know.†   (source)
  • Mariam thought of Jalil, of the emphatic, jovial way in which he'd pushed his jewelry at her, the overpowering cheerfulness that left room for no response but meek gratitude.†   (source)
  • The man's voice held a kind of forced joviality to it.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Jabati was present, too, and he was a little jovial that night.†   (source)
  • I waited till my favorite bush was deserted, and watched two paunchy, jovial women tickle each other's bulbous behinds with leafy sprigs and grass.†   (source)
  • Instead of loud, lively chatter and jovial laughter, their conversation was all hushed whispers.†   (source)
  • His head and face were round, but the effect was not exactly jovial, for his smile for the camera was not wholehearted enough to part his lips, and rather than hold the hand of his young bride, he had folded his arms.†   (source)
  • Jovial Lord Hornwood had no daughters, but he did bring gifts, a horse one day, a haunch of venison the next, a silver-chased hunting horn the day after, and he asked nothing in return …. nothing but a certain hold-fast taken from his grandfather, and hunting rights north of a certain ridge, and leave to dam the White Knife, if it please the lord.†   (source)
  • A burst of jovial, tittering laughter split through the awkwardness.†   (source)
  • "I like your costume," he said jovially.†   (source)
  • The leader of the 39 expedition, Gau Ming-Ho-a jovial freelance photographer who calls himself "Makalu," after the striking Hemalayan peak of that name-was exhausted and frostbitten and had to be assisted down the upper mountain by a pair of Alaskan guides.†   (source)
  • As I went to my afternoon classes, I couldn't help being very anxious about what was happening to Minnijean that caused such a jovial uproar.†   (source)
  • Brom raised his pipe and said in a jovial voice, "Ah, here you are.†   (source)
  • Young!" the doctor greeted her jovially.†   (source)
  • Why end up suffocating on your own entrails out in back of some Buy 'n' Fly when you can put on a crisp terracotta blazer instead and become part of a jovial familia?†   (source)
  • On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation, only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but there's something that's been greatly puzzling me," so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis' jovial anecdotes.†   (source)
  • "They say this dinner is always wasted on the Matchees," a jovial-looking man sitting across from us says, smiling around our table.†   (source)
  • Hours later, the common room had a warm, jovial feel to it.†   (source)
  • And jovial: We share a parking lot with the local bowling alley, and when our door swings wide, the clatter of strikes applauds the customer's entrance.†   (source)
  • Good ole Fred had spent four raving, cursing hours on his belly in an Emergency Wing examining room while a jovial intern picked tiny pellets out of his butt and dropped them into a steel pan.†   (source)
  • Yeste was fat and jovial and one of the richest and most honored men in the city.†   (source)
  • And yet this was at least a partially inaccurate impression, for now and again the prisoner glimpsed him as he paused to talk to other men, joke with them and laugh, and then he seemed carefree, jovial, generous: "The kind of person who might see the human side"-an important attribute, for the man was Roland H. Tate, Judge of the 32nd Judicial District, the jurist who would preside at the trial of the State of Kansas versus Smith and Hickock.†   (source)
  • Moody was jovial, delighting in the fact that our household was the center of attention during the holidays.†   (source)
  • The Witch, from the concussion of his fiercely erupted and overly jovial words, dropped one wounded hand to her side, wiped sweat from it, as one wipes an antenna for better reception, and drifted it up again, her nostrils flared with wind.†   (source)
  • Bethell was a jovial, rotund man and when I first met him, I teased him about his stoutness.†   (source)
  • "Splendid effort," commented the Humbug jovially; "exactly the way I would have done it myself" 'And now may we go?" added Tock.†   (source)
  • He shakes hands with both men, his face jovial, cordial.†   (source)
  • With the men, Victor is jovial and back-patting, asking twice for their names, as if he means to pass on a compliment or a complaint.†   (source)
  • He was out of uniform and called me over, jovial, and I thought I was helping some white dude with directions.†   (source)
  • The discovery of his daughter restored his former joviality and the pleasure of being with her was slowly leading him away from dissipation.†   (source)
  • A jovial middle-aged woman briefed us on the dos and don'ts of outfits for job interviews, then asked for volunteers.†   (source)
  • …delight assisting infants' growth and famously inspire confidence in immature catfish, giving experience (and joy even); however, blowfish jeer insightful garfish, disparaging inappropriately, doing damage, even insulting benevolent, charming, jovial garfish, hurting and frustrating deeply; joy fades but hurt feelings bring just grief; inevitable irritation hastens feeling blue; however, jovial children declare happiness, blowfishes' evil causes dejection, blues accordingly, always…†   (source)
  • "This would be a fine place for a midnight walk," I say, trying to seem jovial.†   (source)
  • Trueba could not understand how his daughter had so many admirers, for she had none of the disarming gaiety and joviality he liked in women; besides, he felt that no normal man could want to marry a woman of ill health and uncertain civil status who already had a daughter.†   (source)
  • He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion.†   (source)
  • Finally she disappeared into a nearby classroom, and Henry shut his locker, his shoulders sagging, his jovial demeanor subdued.†   (source)
  • How could he have gone along with the jovial tone of the conversation?†   (source)
  • THE BAREFOOT COOLIES were jovial men.†   (source)
  • Though Aldertree's tone was jovial, something flashed across his face as he spoke—an expression Simon couldn't pin down.†   (source)
  • "It's Kim!" she said with forced joviality.†   (source)
  • Captain Vel said, falsely jovial.†   (source)
  • He was gregarious, jovial, quick of mind, highly energetic— "very fat, but very active" — and all of twenty-five.†   (source)
  • He finished his late afternoon lunch of vitello tonnato and dabbed his lips with the bright red napkin, trying to look his usual jovial, if patronizing, self.†   (source)
  • Galt!" cried the leader with the sound of an enormous joviality.†   (source)
  • George, the black bartender, was dispensing drinks with all the self-effacing joviality required of his station.†   (source)
  • Looking past him, Prusias called jovially to Ms.†   (source)
  • I had long suspected he was medicating the commander, though certainly not against the man's will, as one sometimes saw them talking in the evenings on the veranda of the hut, the colonel's demeanor familiar and jovial, if a bit too loose.†   (source)
  • If a nature could have been attributed to them it might have been one of optimism and hopefulness, for when they were driven apart and they shot off on their own they went into a brave and jovial roll, spinning as if to gain altitude.†   (source)
  • Beorg took comfort in the fact that no major conflicts had broken out among the assembled tribes, and this night, when they all met in the common hall, the atmosphere was brotherly and jovial, with every beard in Hengorot lathered in foam.†   (source)
  • Phil says he doesn't even know how to laugh, while Kay is always jovial and constantly has a big smile on her face.†   (source)
  • As I sat waiting with the four businessmen from the Northeast, a bunch of jovial cattlemen strutted into the office.†   (source)
  • In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.†   (source)
  • She could not possibly recognize the face, which was middle-aged, jovial, fair, very German, attractive—no, it was more than attractive, it made her melt with desire.†   (source)
  • 'Lordly' folk called them, meaning nothing but good; for it warmed all hearts to see them go riding by with their mail-shirts so bright and their shields so splendid, laughing and singing songs of far away; and if they were now large and magnificent, they were unchanged otherwise, unless they were indeed more fairspoken and more jovial and full of merriment than ever before.†   (source)
  • KELLER [JOVIAL]: Put up stronger fencing, ha?†   (source)
  • He came to the house now and then, arms filled with bags of pastries which he jovially pressed on Doris and me.†   (source)
  • When the belligerent, jovially teasing voice would not work, it was hard for him to speak.†   (source)
  • He played the merry fellow, he was jovial, cracked jokes, and often exclaimed, "What fun!" and "How amusing!†   (source)
  • "It is her first," said Kali, jovially, "but by no means her last, for as you see her husband has not wasted any time!"†   (source)
  • Yes, and he looked around the table, already jovial again, but rather watchful now, too, of him? and he wondered who, of all these, would sit in glory at the right hand of the Father?†   (source)
  • I don't understand the complaints," he said jovially.†   (source)
  • Uncle Vernon now came in, smiling jovially as he shut the door.†   (source)
  • "Harry!" said Fudge jovially, moving forward.†   (source)
  • Queen Amberly sat in a corner, speaking jovially with the Italian queen.†   (source)
  • He says this jovially, skewering a potato.†   (source)
  • "I have matches," the man in black said jovially, "but I thought you might enjoy the magic.†   (source)
  • 'That's good,' the colonel exclaimed, and stood up jovially.†   (source)
  • "Good morning, Sunshine," he says jovially.†   (source)
  • Did you sort out the horse?" he asks jovially, coming to a stop in front of me.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he said jovially, "You and Sister been having lots of fun?"†   (source)
  • He wanders around the crowded room, tasting hors d'oeuvres, sipping wine, looking jovially bewildered, and occasionally Pari has to swoop in and steal him away from a group of mathematicians before he opines on 3-manifolds and Diophantine approximations.†   (source)
  • Two floors up he met Seamus and Dean, who hailed him jovially and told him they were planning a dusk-till-dawn end-of-exams celebration in the common room.†   (source)
  • Gavril asked jovially.†   (source)
  • I watched the boys roll up their pant legs and slide off their dress shoes, pushing one another jovially.†   (source)
  • The loudness of homey joviality came back into Mr. Thompson's voice, as if the hint given and received were now to be safely evaded by means of humor.†   (source)
  • Mr. Halloway cried, jovially.†   (source)
  • Vic Mooney, President of the Senior Class, was calling jovially into the mike: "All right, ladies and gentlemen.†   (source)
  • A jovial fellow with gold-filled teeth and a silvery widow's peak, he jovially repeated, "Sometimes I despair.†   (source)
  • So much for joviality.†   (source)
  • By the time he'd turned around, the mask of joviality which had fallen into the sink had been slapped back on, not a seam showing.†   (source)
  • 'But, Milo, you are doing your duty,' Colonel Cathcart exclaimed with a laugh that thundered jovially.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn chucked Havermeyer under the chin jovially, ignoring him, and then addressed himself to Dunbar and Yossarian in a dry monotone.†   (source)
  • Yossarian teased him jovially.†   (source)
  • The captain pinched her arm, a little bit with joviality, a little bit with meanness to get her to look at him.†   (source)
  • "Now, you know," said someone else, jovially, "you ain't fixing to make that woman your wife or nothing like that? so ain't no need to get all worked up and spoil our little gathering.†   (source)
  • Look who's back!" the man cried to two other men with whom he was idling on the street corner, and all three of them waved jovially for Uncle Charlie to come over and join them.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged it with a jovial wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • I kept my tone carefully jovial as I glanced up at him to gauge his reaction.†   (source)
  • "I've got my girls to keep me company" my dad says, trying to sound jovial and not tense.†   (source)
  • It took a full span of days before Ben was his normal, jovial self again.†   (source)
  • The jovial innkeeper was gone, and in his place stood someone dark and fierce.†   (source)
  • David Alexander spent time with him and found him in jovial spirits.†   (source)
  • Mace Tyrell's smile was jovial, but behind it Tyrion sensed contempt.†   (source)
  • Round, jovial features contorted into an amused grin as he offered Max a courteous bow.†   (source)
  • I've heard that people like jovial girls.†   (source)
  • "Once again, Thomas gives us a cheerful pep talk," Frypan announced; he tried to sound jovial, but it came out more like a spiteful rub.†   (source)
  • She came up and touched my cheek, making some joke or other, and once we got in the car, she made sure the jovial mood kept going.†   (source)
  • Out of sight of the Scoutmaster, a jovial, mournful pink-faced man fond of sing-songs and hatchets, they'd held their magnifying glasses trained on their bare arms to see who could stand it longest.†   (source)
  • He was jovial and very disciplined.†   (source)
  • I knocked on the door and was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by Noelle, a plump, jovial woman in her early forties.†   (source)
  • But Walter remained calm, jovial, and earnest, and it was very effective—watching Walter tell his story with such good humor, intelligence, and sincerity heightened the horror our audiences felt, that the State had been determined to execute this man in all of our names.†   (source)
  • I forced the proper amount of jovial unconcern into my voice so Sim would take me at my word and drop the subject for the time being.†   (source)
  • They seem at ease, jovial.†   (source)
  • Regis emerged from the room, and the gray pall upon his usually jovial face deadened the lighthearted atmosphere.†   (source)
  • There were times when the demon's appearance and jovial manner almost tempted Max to think of him as human—or at least mostly human.†   (source)
  • But now he was even more jovial.†   (source)
  • A jovial fellow with gold-filled teeth and a silvery widow's peak, he jovially repeated, "Sometimes I despair.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, I hardly think they'll do that,' Aarfy replied with a jovial chuckle, although his symptoms of nervousness increased.†   (source)
  • Boy, we used to have fun in that fraternity house,' he recalled peacefully, his corpulent cheeks aglow with the jovial, rubicund warmth of nostalgic recollection.†   (source)
  • Try to imagine the leisurely paced life of almost any academic family in the Western world during those years of the twenties and the thirties—with ritual teas and evening musicales and summer outings to the rolling drowsy countryside, dinners with students and mid-year trips to Italy, sabbatical years in Berlin and Salzburg—and one will have an idea of the nature of Sophie's life in those days, and its civilized odor, its equable, even jovial cast.†   (source)
  • He was a jovial, smiling man, if one could believe the mask he wore, for upon it was painted not one smile, but three.†   (source)
  • Though I liked Oluf's jovial spirits and ate his pastry with gusto, the possibility of having a new father scared me.†   (source)
  • Beneath his thin joviality Horse Hines was hurt.†   (source)
  • Francon leaned jovially across his desk and handed to Keating the August issue of New Frontiers.†   (source)
  • "So you pronounce one person at least innocent of the crime," said M. Bouc jovially.†   (source)
  • All right," I replied, but apparently I didn't get the right amount of joviality into my tone.†   (source)
  • They had everything they wanted (glibly, jovially, with the tea hot in her, she unwound her ball of memories, sitting in the wicker arm-chair by the nursery fender).†   (source)
  • (with a change to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now recess while the D.A. sings out a little ditty he learned at Harvard.†   (source)
  • Behind his joviality there were signs of recent strains and worries, but that did not mean that the joviality was forced.†   (source)
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  • And he would go, either struggling clumsily and screaming eloquent abuse at his suppliant captors, or jovially acquiescent, bellowing a wanton song of his youth along the latticed crescent, and through the supper-silent highways of the town.†   (source)
  • HICKEY—(jovially) Hello, Gang!†   (source)
  • This remark sobered the father's joviality, and brought his mind to business.†   (source)
  • "I've disgraced you, haven't I?" said Dick jovially.†   (source)
  • Kennicott jovially hooted, "What makes you so hang-dog, Lym?"†   (source)
  • "Come have a seat—have the whole earth!" he shouted jovially.†   (source)
  • "Alone, at last!" said Lord Antony, jovially.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know," Blakeney was saying jovially, "that you …. er …. were in holy orders."†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes, give me a coroner who is a good coursing man," said Mr. Vincy, jovially.†   (source)
  • "There ye go!" he shouted jovially, to the children.†   (source)
  • Some misfortune happened to him every moment, hence his joviality.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I'll be your little child," said Tristram, jovially; "I'll take you by the hand.†   (source)
  • Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of cordial joviality.†   (source)
  • "Oh, leave him to me," said Newman, jovially.†   (source)
  • "And say," he whispered, jovially, pulling Hurstwood over by the shoulder so that he might whisper in his ear, "if this isn't a good show, I'll punch your head."†   (source)
  • Then down deserted Prospect and along McCosh with song everywhere around them, up to the hot joviality of Nassau Street.†   (source)
  • The inherited stupidity of the race—sound English common sense he jovially termed it—was shown to be the proper bulwark for Society.†   (source)
  • "Well," he continued, still jovially impervious to her annoyance, "have you made up your mind which of these little trinkets you mean to duplicate at Tiffany's tomorrow?†   (source)
  • It was a little too early for the doctor, so I proposed a drink, and thereupon he developed a vein of joviality.†   (source)
  • He was not certain that she would be pleased to see him; she had made friends in Brighton; he was quiet, and she liked boisterous joviality; he realised that she amused herself more with other people than with him.†   (source)
  • …that to her great disappointment no one would ever believe anything against her; Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp, and Venetian-red hair; Lady Alice Chapman, his hostess's daughter, a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces, that, once seen, are never remembered; and her husband, a red-cheeked, white-whiskered creature who, like so many of his class, was under the impression that inordinate joviality can atone for an entire lack of ideas.†   (source)
  • By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their hearts, and happily he rose.†   (source)
  • In Zenith he left his bag at the interurban trolley station and sought Clif, whom he found practicing eloquence over a beautiful pearl-gray motor hearse, in which a beer-fed undertaker was jovially interested.†   (source)
  • Mr. Power turned to Mrs. Kernan and said with abrupt joviality: "Well, Mrs. Kernan, we're going to make your man here a good holy pious and God-fearing Roman Catholic."†   (source)
  • Deep down in each of them there was a kind of hearty joviality, a relish of life, not over-delicate, but very invigorating.†   (source)
  • "With an artificial foot—and they make excellent ones—you will be stumping ships' galleys to the end of time," I assured him jovially.†   (source)
  • There was a fine of ten cents for calling a Fellow Booster by anything but his nickname at a lunch, and as Babbitt jovially checked his hat the air was radiant with shouts of "Hello, Chet!" and "How're you, Shorty!" and "Top o' the mornin', Mac!"†   (source)
  • She did not answer his joviality.†   (source)
  • He was a short, fat man, with an exuberant joviality, a bald head, and a loud voice; he had a cockney accent, and was generally described by the students as an "awful bounder'; but his cleverness, both as a surgeon and as a teacher, caused some of them to overlook this.†   (source)
  • Jovially they whooped back—Vergil Gunch, the coal-dealer, Sidney Finkelstein, the ladies'-ready-to-wear buyer for Parcher & Stein's department-store, and Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, owner of the Riteway Business College and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Scenario Writing, and Commercial Law.†   (source)
  • But she had not time even to do that, for the next moment Blakeney quietly walked to the table, and, jovially clapped the CURE on the back, said in his own drawly, affected way,— "Odds's fish!†   (source)
  • "Lud! they are a bit quaint, ain't they?" laughed Sir Percy, jovially, "But, odd's fish!" he added, with sudden earnestness and authority, "now you are here, Ffoulkes, we must lose no more time: that brute Chauvelin may send some one to look after us."†   (source)
  • I noticed that Mr. Pumblechook in his hospitality appeared to forget that he had made a present of the wine, but took the bottle from Mrs. Joe and had all the credit of handing it about in a gush of joviality.†   (source)
  • There was the chairman himself, (the landlord of the house,) a coarse, rough, heavy built fellow, who, while the songs were proceeding, rolled his eyes hither and thither, and, seeming to give himself up to joviality, had an eye for everything that was done, and an ear for everything that was said—and sharp ones, too.†   (source)
  • He appeared surprised at finding Newman, but his surprise was but a momentary shadow across the surface of an unwonted joviality.†   (source)
  • He is endowed with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter.†   (source)
  • At Sergey Ivanovitch's little pills, everyone laughed; Turovtsin in especial roared loudly and jovially, glad at last to have found something to laugh at, all he ever looked for in listening to conversation.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode, hoping that the peculiar mixture of joviality and sneering in Raffles' manner was a good deal the effect of drink, had determined to wait till he was quite sober before he spent more words upon him.†   (source)
  • Release him at once, the wanton (Louis XI. was fond of this word which formed, with ~Pasque-Dieu~, the foundation of his joviality), and put him out with a buffet.†   (source)
  • By this time the marriage that had taken place was known throughout Casterbridge; had been discussed noisily on kerbstones, confidentially behind counters, and jovially at the Three Mariners.†   (source)
  • For though Pitt did not care for joviality, being a frigid man of poor hearth and appetite, yet he considered that to be hospitable and condescending was quite incumbent on-his station, and every time that he got a headache from too long an after-dinner sitting, he felt that he was a martyr to duty.†   (source)
  • 'Littimer is a greater fool than I thought him, to have been inquiring for me at all,' said Steerforth, jovially pouring out a glass of wine, and drinking to me.†   (source)
  • But there was no time to moralise, for the joviality again became very brisk, and the decanter of port being nearly out, brother Ned pulled the bell, which was instantly answered by the apoplectic butler.†   (source)
  • The grand hall was no longer anything but a vast furnace of effrontry and joviality, where every mouth was a cry, every individual a posture; everything shouted and howled.†   (source)
  • Later in the evening, however, Raffles overtook him in the street, and appearing either to have forgotten the roughness of his former reception or to intend avenging it by a forgiving familiarity, greeted him jovially and walked by his side, remarking at first on the pleasantness of the town and neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Paris has a sovereign joviality.†   (source)
  • People vociferate, shout, howl, there they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter.†   (source)
  • The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, a potpourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called The Vestal; the trees shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by spectres.†   (source)
  • Mr Waverly was a big, florid, jovial-looking man.†   (source)
  • He opened the door, a big jovial-looking man with a fine manner, in a flowered dressing gown.†   (source)
  • I imagine it is not too jovial up at Sordo's.†   (source)
  • Abruptly Hickey changes to his jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.†   (source)
  • He was almost jovial now.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung nodded and left her and did not see her again until the guests came crowding in, his uncle jovial and sly and hungry, his uncle's son an impudent lad of fifteen, and the farmers clumsy and grinning with shyness.†   (source)
  • Carl Tiflin was jovial this morning.†   (source)
  • The harbour was a dancing thing, with fluttering paper boats, and the sailors on the quay were jovial, smiling fellows, merry as the wind.†   (source)
  • …adolescence; wobbly-bosomed black and yellow church matrons; black janitors and porters who sang proudly in the choir; subdued redcaps and carpenters who served as deacons; meek, blank-eyed black and yellow washerwomen who shouted and moaned and danced when hymns were sung; jovial, pot-bellied black bishops; skinny old maids who were constantly giving rallies to raise money; snobbery, clannishness, gossip, intrigue, petty class rivalry, and conspicuous displays of cheap clothing ….†   (source)
  • And when they came back I could tell by Giles's rather hearty jovial manner and by a look in Rebecca's eye that she had started on him, as she had done on Frank.†   (source)
  • But words failed him, and he slammed the telephone to the cradle, and swung the big, recently jovial-looking face toward me.†   (source)
  • The waiter was a jovial fellow and knew Cronshaw intimately.†   (source)
  • He is perhaps a little too peremptory, a little too jovial for my taste.†   (source)
  • Continental Papists are a dirty, jovial and unscrupulous crew.†   (source)
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