All 16 Uses of
jovial
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Portly in build, jovial in countenance and somewhat bald of pate, Mr. Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days—the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.†
Chpt 2
- He nodded to Waite, Pitkin and the others as he at last released Sally's waist, and crossed over to the hearth to warm and dry himself: as he did so, he cast a quick, somewhat suspicious glance at the two strangers, who had quietly resumed their game of dominoes, and for a moment a look of deep earnestness, even of anxiety, clouded his jovial young face.†
Chpt 3
- "So this is England," she said, as she looked round with childlike curiosity at the great hearth, the oak rafters, and the yokels with their elaborate smocks and jovial, rubicund, British countenances.†
Chpt 3
- "But, I say, supper!" here broke in Lord Antony's jovial voice, "supper, honest Jellyband.†
Chpt 3
- "Alone, at last!" said Lord Antony, jovially.†
Chpt 4jovially = cheerfully and friendly
- "Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound."†
Chpt 4
- Some little distance away to her left the lights from the coffee-room of "The Fisherman's Rest" glittered yellow in the gathering mist; from time to time it seemed to her aching nerves as if she could catch from thence the sound of merry-making and of jovial talk, or even that perpetual, senseless laugh of her husband's, which grated continually upon her sensitive ears.†
Chpt 8
- As she drew near, the sound of revelry, of gay, jovial laughter, grew louder and more distinct.†
Chpt 8 *
- "Then here's to her very good health," said jovial Lord Tony.†
Chpt 9
- And now," he added, whilst a sudden earnestness crept over his jovial young face, "how about business?"†
Chpt 9
- Mr. Pitt, overweighted with cares of state, was finding brief relaxation in to-night's musical treat; the Prince of Wales, jovial, rotund, somewhat coarse and commonplace in appearance, moved about from box to box, spending brief quarters of an hour with those of his more intimate friends.†
Chpt 10
- A long, jovial, inane laugh broke the sudden silence which had fallen over everyone.†
Chpt 11
- Without a smile upon his jovial face, he drew the cork from the bottle of wine, set the chairs ready, and prepared to wait.†
Chpt 21
- 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!†
Chpt 25jovially = cheerfully and friendly
- "I didn't know," Blakeney was saying jovially, "that you ... er ...were in holy orders."†
Chpt 25
- 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."†
Chpt 31
Definition:
cheerful and friendly