How To Use Jocose In A Sentence
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The world-sickness of the White Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living.
Chapter XXXVI
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Ixion" in "Jocoseria," is in alternate hexameter and pentameter, which the author also employs here for the only time; it imitates the turning of the wheel on which Ixion is bound.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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City of the world, with so much of the material of jocoseness is an odd problem.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
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'I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition -- to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny!
Lance Mannion:
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The continental peoples are grave, compared with our jocose fellow citizens, and especially in their hours of business.
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jocosely" reminded by smiling secretaries that the competition was over, and that those who were dissatisfied with the companies 'supplies were quite at liberty to set up pumps of their own.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852
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Liszt, that amiable critic replied that the word "grotesque" had no place in piano playing -- that they should properly be called jocose, or something of that sort.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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You must not overwork at your editorial desk, my boy," he called jocosely from the distant threshold.
Paul and the Printing Press
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Yet can we wonder at the jocoseness of those arrayed in lawn and broad-cloth -- can we marvel at the simper of the artisan fresh from his beef and pudding, solaced with tobacco and porter?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
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Jorgen Kiil plays the jocose patriarch, an ageing, overweight male nurse.
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There is a kind of jocose or burlesque satire peculiar to Italy, in which the literature is extremely rich.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Unfortunately, among many of our young people, the Bible seems to be a book to be avoided or to be treated in a rather "jocose" manner.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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One of their neighbours, Miss Adelaide Boodle, who was given the jocose title of "gamekeeper" when she assumed charge of
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I went there, but I had taken flight,” the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness.
Anna Karenina
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July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
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One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain.
CHAPTER IX
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Two jocose corruptions of melancholy, allycholly and colliemollie, have been dropped from the language since Shakespeare's time.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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Yours, true to your blood (for you are _Scot Scotorum_), is the humorist's way: how many passengers you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound poke at British foibles.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Inn, and to bestow a mutchkin, as he would jocosely say, to obtain the freedom of the house, but, in reality, to assure himself of my company during the evening. —
Old Mortality
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So, he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry, and Miss La Creevy evinced no greater symptoms of displeasure than declaring, as she adjusted her yellow turban, that she had never heard of such a thing, and couldn’t have believed it possible.
Nicholas Nickleby
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She was crazier about flowers and plants than anybody he had ever heard of, and it had delighted him to make over to her, labelled jocosely as the bouquet-fund, a sum of money which, it seemed to him, might have paid for the hanging-gardens of Babylon.
The Market-Place
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Asked if he could afford a lawyer, he became jocose.
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Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living.
Chapter 36
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His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence
Ulysses
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His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.
Ulysses
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So, he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry, and Miss La Creevy evinced no greater symptoms of displeasure than declaring, as she adjusted her yellow turban, that she had never heard of such a thing, and couldn't have believed it possible.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Mugridge, on the other hand, considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks.
Chapter 6
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At table, the pleasures of which in moderation were his only relaxation, he was always animated and merry; and this jocoseness was partly natural, partly intentional.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
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Even the great Mr. Cullinan shook a little under the paternal jocoseness with which he came forward to kiss the bride.
It, and Other Stories
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July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
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For ease and jocoseness of description it stands almost unapproachable.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Hayden's grappling with these issues led to sometimes jocose observations, as recounted here.
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With the rabbi he maintained an armed truce which manifested itself in a kind of jocose teasing that occasionally developed an unpleasant edge.
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
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He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.
New Grub Street
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July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
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One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain.
CHAPTER IX
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Captain Asa G. Freeman had an extra horse, and I got on him and joined the cavalry for several days, but all the time some passing cavalryman would make some jocose remark about "Here is a webfoot who wants to jine the cavalry, and has got a bayonet on his gun and a knapsack on his back.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
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All these features in wording made his poems tinged with a sense of being unrestrained, wild and jocose, displaying unique aesthetic traits.
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If Janeites tend towards punctiliousness, Dickensians have a penchant for the jocose.
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Might have known that!" with an attempt at jocoseness.
Half A Chance
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At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit.
De vita Caesarum
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It is very “filling”: you say jocosely to an Eastern threatened with a sudden inroad of guests, “Go, swamp thy rice with Raughan.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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a certain kind of jocoseness which is so naturally associated with spirituous liquors; no talk could have been less offensive.
By the Ionian Sea
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In spite of the sobering tenor of "uprightness" in humanist pedagogical writings, the techniques practiced in schools such as Ca 'Zoiosa, especially with younger students, are more accurately characterized as jocoserious.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He would have tried to persuade him in a very jocose way.
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Now this division is made according to the intention of the effect: for a "jocose" lie is told in order to make fun, an
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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jocose" lie, or of usefulness, and then we have the "officious" lie, whereby it is intended to help another person, or to save him from being injured.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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It would have been impossible to hear any explanation; but the five minutes were over, and the horns had ceased, and there remained only the noise of a singular leaping of feet, explained perhaps by a possible pillow-fight, that kept the family below partially awake until the bells and cannon made known the dawning of the glorious day, – the sunrise, or "the rising of the sons," as Mr. Peterkin jocosely called it when they heard the little boys and their friends clattering down the stairs to begin the outside festivities.
The Peterkin Papers
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Probably as a jocose acknowledgment of the obstructive character of this main approach, the point nearest to its base at which one could take the river (if so inodorously minded) bore the appellation
No Thoroughfare
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To tell the truth, a part of his jocoseness was a blind; he was the greatest peace-maker, except Mr. Harmony in the play, that ever was born.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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But behind the jocose mood was a serious determination that farmers were sticking to their protest.
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The hotel servants chuckled as he went in and out; the oystermen and wood-cutters called jocosely to each other as he passed by; respectable people said he could have no consideration for his wife to degrade her by raising the derision of the town.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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His jocose manner was unsuitable for such a solemn occasion.