How To Use Jocund In A Sentence

  • a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company
  • their hearts were jocund and sublime
  • And I felt that if I was this happy in life, my life would be permanently happy and jocund.
  • Now August came, that florid lazy month when mid-summer dawdles along in trailing greeneries, and the day is like some jocund pagan, all flushed and asleep, with dripping beard rosy in a wine bowl of fat vine leaves. Gentle Julia
  • He was always jocund and grinning, while I always just stare in annoyance.
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  • He is likewise declared innocent of the case privileged from the knapdardies, into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred; because he could not jocundly and with fulness of freedom untruss and dung, by the decision of a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • I remember the advice given by the make-up artist François from Elizabeth Arden: ‘The jocund mouth gives the true chic.’
  • Old Jocunda, the porteress, never failed to make a sensation with her one stock-story of how she found the child standing on her head and crying, -- having been put into this reversed position in consequence of climbing up on a high stool to get her little fat hand into the vase of holy water, failing in which Christian attempt, her heels went up and her head down, greatly to her dismay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
  • A poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company.
  • July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
  • But as I approached, so the branches beneath which they played gradually disparted, and I saw not far distant from them one sitting who evidently had these jocund boys in charge. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
  • But Eve, ‘heightened as with wine, jocund and boon’, hastens to tell Adam her good news.
  • Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever. Ulysses
  • Within a few months, he was his usual jocund self, and growing like an aurochs.
  • Accordingly, take in perfect part all I write and do; revere the cheese-shaped brain which feeds you this noble flummery; strive diligently to keep me ever jocund.
  • July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
  • A poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company.
  • ‘Sit in the Sun’ and ‘By the Cathedral’ tug at opposing emotions, at once jocund and unsettling.
  • July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
  • Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete

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