How To Use Jolly In A Sentence

Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that.
Enjoy this jolly, spritzy, grapey, flowering currant and passion fruit-scented rosé well chilled. Times, Sunday Times
Fewer and fewer people living in this country feel any cultural connection with jolly swagmen, billabongs and coolibah trees.

He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor.
The Jolly Bottle, the Jolly Bottle, "cried Habershaw, pronouncing this word according to ancient usage, with the accent on the last syllable, as if spelt" bottel; "" give us the Jolly Bottle, we all know the chorus of that song. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore.
Jolly's bunk was at the back of the radio room, and he would have had to pass Kinnaird and Grant to get out, not forgetting that he would also have to stop to pick up the Nife cells. Ice Station Zebra
I mean, maybe they'd rather jolly a single party, with all home comforts as wives or mistresses, than be thumped by four different randies every night. Isabelle
At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
I could look it up in the almanac, of course, but that's not the point - I should jolly well know.
The day my hairdryer blew the hair right off my head was another jolly one. Times, Sunday Times
No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
They are not indications that a person should jolly well pull their socks up. Times, Sunday Times
The day my hairdryer blew the hair right off my head was another jolly one. Times, Sunday Times
Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.” Mark Twain
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We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
How jolly hockey sticks of her! The Sun
The word impertinent has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 4 in "Hermès Is Selling Its Stake in Gaultier's Fashion House," by Suzy Menkes and David Jolly: NYT > Home Page
If, in the final analysis, it's really just a jolly good opportunity for a piss-up and a social then why not stop pretending and just call it that? Archive 2007-07-01
Ecole de Droit; the huge Alsacian carabineer, grimly smiling under his sandy moustaches and glittering brass helmet; the jolly nurse, in red calico, who had been to Paris to show mamma her darling The Paris Sketch Book
However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention. Sweet Danger
There is one section of the reef is sufficiently submerged to get a jollyboat over. Morgan’s Run
Carl Jolly met us outside, disappointed, he was still undiscouraged which is amazing when you consider the additional odds he is up against. KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
And there was always a lot of jolly fellows, and usedn't they to cheer me w'en the horses 'u'd play up a bit. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Or then again maybe it was just a bit of jolly good fun. Times, Sunday Times
Well, we've been married thirty years now, and even after thirty years, it's still jolly nice to know that we love one another.
Bizarrely the poster shows a jolly, alfresco party, possibly by an unseen pool.
It's all jolly, jolly good fun. The Sun
The banker was a tubby, jolly-looking man.
There are groups with jolly ladies-in-waiting in colorful crinolines attended by adoring cavaliers, as well as court jesters.
It was a perfect replica of a Caribbean pirate vessel, right down to the Jolly Roger flying from the topmast.
However, I fear they are retreating, and minority indulgences such as cribbage are going the same way as dominoes, shove ha'penny, bar billiards, and the very jolly, unpretentious boozers in which they used to be played day and night. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
I'll try to jolly my parents into letting me borrow the car this weekend.
In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
However, tho 'we did both get jolly wet, we had sum capital fun, for we seed no less than too coaches and four upset in the road, and to see the poor passengers all a standing in the mud, which it was about amost up to their nees, and a wundering what time they shood get to the Darby, was more than enuff to console us, and we all larfed artily and left' em. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891
During the week, Jolly works as a UPS feeder driver out of Statesville, N.C.
He's clearly convinced we're all headed for a nasty apocalyptic end but he manages to be terribly jolly about the whole thing.
He was a very small man, with pink cheeks and eye-glasses, beautifully made and still more beautifully dressed; and for all their boisterous "jollying" his auditors appeared rather to like him than the contrary. Captivating Mary Carstairs
Hector said it was a jolly good idea and very brave of her and he would be lurking in the corridor in case there was any trouble.
Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
Just 50 yards from the sea, the place has a jolly atmosphere, with lots of families tucking into enormous seafood platters.
It's true that he does jolly good work when the Huns 'strafe' his wire and he has to go out and mend it, but he doesn't go forward in an attack; he sits in his dug-out and telephones like blazes for reinforcements while the Germans pepper his roof for him with 'whizz-bangs.' Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France
A) Freeze a jolly good fellow! The Sun
Katseli also said she would listen to Papandreou's speech tonight before deciding whether to back him.5.14pm: Before things get too heated in Greece, let's post this jolly tale from David Gow:The "live ticker" on spiegel.de has made a wonderful contribution to German-Hellenic understanding by quoting at length Uli Hoeness - remember him England? Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
This goes on for two days, after which they clutter off in a haze of petrol and alcohol fumes, leaving you feeling hungover but jolly happy. Times, Sunday Times
Always glowing whenever she hits a stage or screen, the blond, round-cheeked Ebersole has an infallible instinct for jollying a melody that jibes seamlessly with what Weinstein is doing as he rapidly saws away and as Firth and Hubbard fill their breaks with matching virtuosity. David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph
That site links the Proceedings of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences, which gives a nice little overview of the history and legendry of jolly ol 'Saint Nick, and then proceeds to discuss his relics: Archive 2009-12-01
He is a jolly Aussie, halfway through a five-year term and missing sun-kissed Sydney Bay where he used to run the magnificent Opera House.
I'd got myself into this marriage and I jolly well had to get myself out of it.
A very jolly extrovert personality, Eileen enjoys the social aspect of the game and she is hugely popular with her sporting friends.
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Falstaff was big and fantastically blustery, and in that context, we somehow managed to avoid discussing the politics of the day, enjoying a jolly frivolous evening in all.
No, Captain," replied Bob, who was busy undressing; and, within a few moments he had plunged into the sea, and was swimming out with a brave firm stroke in a way that fully justified the Captain's praise of his natatory powers, shouting out at intervals his customary war - cry -- "Jolly! Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
But his face had not the frankness of the jolly hunter; he was downlooked, embarrassed, and avoided the eyes of those who looked hard at him. Chapter XXV
He smiled, jolly creases appearing on his chubby face.
Still, the ambiance was wonderful: comfortably bohemian, chicly shabby, unfussily inviting and many other jolly terms designed to defuse my wife's urges toward home improvement. Blessings of the Season
His promise, in a letter of March 1, 1802, that _if_ he should write a second 'Maid of Orleans', Göschen should publish it, is only an author's playful 'jollying' of a friendly publisher. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff.
Suddenly, she gave an exclamation which was echoed by a jolly-looking person in her early thirties. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
The words will be parodied, and the chief effect I expect from them must arise from their being _known_; for the joke will be much less for these jolly fathers to sing any thing new, than to give what the audience are used to annex the idea of jollity to. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
Everybody thinks he is a jolly good bloke. Times, Sunday Times
As Jolly notes in her introduction and own chapter in the book, the binaries of tradition and modernity are often reinforced by strenuous defenses by advocates on both sides.
I love the bright yellow you've painted the children's room - it makes it look really jolly.
A god-daughter told me of how jolly he made her girlhood, although her father worried about his fellow barrister's habit of fast driving.
About the time I first noted reports of the Medas Isles in Diver in the late 1980s, I was on a corporate jolly to Marbella on the Costa del Sol.
Normally his manner was cold, and he expounded his outrageous lecheries with grim sobriety, but that day he had been chewing preserved kal flavoured with aromatic oils, and his manner was less restrained than usual, even jolly.
We saw in one of its streets a remarkable proof of liberal toleration; a nonjuring clergyman, strutting about in his canonicals, with a jolly countenance and a round belly, like Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
the jolly crowd at the reunion
Mykela was remembered as a jolly little angel, full of life and mischief.
We are determined to make the 2008 festive season as jolly as any in the past decade or so of unrivalled prosperity. The Sun
At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
Cambodia and meet a USAF C-130 Refuel aircraft and make several (dry) contacts on the refueling hoses then to actually refuel from the C-130 and fly back to NKP, Thailand, On 14 June 1973 The Jolly Green was in the refueling formation with the C-130 and had just disconnected from the refueling hose when the helicopter rapidly pitched nose up then nose down, doing this several times. McLeod, David V. Jr.
And when you tire of the cultural onslaught, the gardens are jolly nice, too.
I rarely meet any of my neighbours, which is the way I like it, but I did meet both of my old beside- and above-neighbours and they were jolly decent blokes.
Her brother remembered her as always "of a cheerful and jolly disposition '. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
He is a jolly soul, smiling at every opportunity and applauding his opponents' shots as if having a knockabout in the park.
He has been so kind and jolly that we all got quite fond of him. Little Women
He was so happy and jolly. Times, Sunday Times
A ship called the Jolly George was awaiting a shipload of arms destined for Polish troops in London's East End docks in May.
Elves are that way though, jolly one moment and deadly serious when the situation needs it.
Apparently, this description is not an oversell, as Epicurious ranked Three Thieves Pinot Grigio as a Top 5 Box Wine, saying it "starts out as Granny Smith apple and green Jolly Rancher candy with hints of banana, giving way to papaya and crenshaw melon. MetaEfficient Reviews
Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus: Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
Bravo! "cry the jolly companions of Tony Lumpkin, when that promising buckeen has finished his song at the Three Pigeons; then follows criticism: -- Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
Those of us who toil on the B pictures for jolly old L. B. M. only get to observe from afar these earthshaking events. 52449_CLARA
Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy. Ulysses
He had a jolly laugh and his belly shook when he was really amused by something, and his wise old eyes lit up with mischief right before he'd ask you a riddle.
But sometimes jolly insights are hard to come by and the journals seem to carry little but news of cuts. Times, Sunday Times
He has been in quite a good mood lately actually, jolly and carefree, just the way I like him.
The trailer had belonged to Mrs Jolly, the woman who sold us the property.
Speak, ye ballroom frequenters, how would you skip, even with the light of brilliant eyes to encourage you, if there were not what you call a jolly good supper somewhere in the background? Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
The jolly duo are back and this series shows they are more than just TV chefs. The Sun
To jolly things up Blighty made the joke about it being a shame more of the voters weren't undead, then Howard might have a chance.
The next few days are all very exciting though, today it's the wedding of my cousin Amanda (to Daniel) to which I'm wearing the exciting and jolly expensive new suit.
jolly old Saint Nick
There is no doubt that away from the microphone and jolly japes there was a complex and serious man.
Poor old 'sfub' - jolly nice chap or chapess but missed his or her go - stations dear person, stations. Army Rumour Service
The now derelict site, next to one of England's most treasured heritage sites, has been a blot on the landscape since the Jolly Boatman pub was demolished.
I almost expected to see the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead.
I think last year I wrote some nauseating guff about how lovely and peachy it all is, and how single people should be jolly happy and all the rest, because I was all loved up with Marianne.
To the newspaper man, Bob was a godsend; for humour was scarce on board, and "jollying" Bob was a welcome diversion. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War
She's a very jolly, upbeat sort of a person.
The third character is Awly, the friend who tries to jolly Leo out of his lovesickness.
It's a jolly, summery, radio-friendly dance choon.
Your mother is a jolly, easy - going woman.
We never kept horses of our own, but the horses of our customer-guests were always at our disposal, and many a jolly ride they gave us, with the dvornik at the reins, while their owners haggled with my mother in the store about the price of soap. The Promised Land
‘This is a British-made rickshaw, manufactured to a fantastic specification and was jolly expensive,’ said Marion.
In the old days, this meant sending jolly boats ashore and sacking a town, as Captain Henry Morgan did throughout the Spanish colonies at Portobello, Maracaibo, and Panama City in the late 17th century.
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Saminu Turaki of northern styate of Jigawa, Joshua Dariye of north central Plateau, Jolly Nyame of northern Taraba and Chimaroke Nnamani of southrn Enugu state. ANC Daily News Briefing
A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes — eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony — her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to. Travels in West Africa
If it goes well, he will be more than the jolly good fellow that he already is. Times, Sunday Times
The house still stands - a jolly yellow house, with green roof, and a begnonia and plumbago hedge, with poinsettias in the front garden.
But sometimes jolly insights are hard to come by and the journals seem to carry little but news of cuts. Times, Sunday Times
He then asked for something to eat, and commenced telling me a variety of stories relative to what he termed jolly parties in his former days; so that the day passed very agreeably. The Little Savage
When he got there, and asked if the jolly-jist was stirring yet, one servant snorted, and another grunted, till Joe got rather maddish; but at last one of them skipjacks of fellows, that wear a little jacket like a lass's bedgown, said he would see. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance
So here are some jolly good deals to get you in the festive mood. The Sun
Arian was getting up to leave when a jolly looking, red headed giant of a man with sparkling gray eyes entered the room.
I wanted to ask Mr. Scott since he's always so jolly and happy that if people see him with his jolliness.
He thinks that is a jolly good idea. Times, Sunday Times
There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian. The Crossing
You may get a fleeting glimpse that all is not well with his mother but it all seems quite jolly. The Sun
On a frozen lake this can be jolly good fun. Times, Sunday Times
Will you give us a bit to jolly us along towards our target of a billion? Times, Sunday Times
It's all very jolly, but it is entirely possible, I suppose, that some parents will overidentify with the whole thing, will forget that they are in fact the adults and not the children. The Wifely Duty
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin
As I finished each of the major rooms I took the vacuum out to empty straight into the trash and gave the dusters a jolly good shake downwind.
This is no time for a jolly jape, a ruffle of the hair and a 'cripes'. Times, Sunday Times
Not only had crime obviously paid, it looked jolly good fun in this breezy, salty comedy. Times, Sunday Times
The focus of the analysis by Berkes and Jolly [3] is a Canadian Arctic community, Sachs Harbour, on Banks Island, NWT. Candidate vulnerability case studies for climate change in the Arctic
As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jollyboat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Oh, it's been a jolly time, all those years laughing and talking and partying with Steve.
They are not indications that a person should jolly well pull their socks up. Times, Sunday Times
I rustled up a stunning little meal, and I have to say I was jolly proud.
Just bear in mind the distinction between assertiveness and aggression if you have to jolly them along.
I think the riddler is a bit too jolly and similar to the joker, so having the riddler as the next villain will more or elss result in a movie with the same plot as the Dark Knight. Check This Out: Awesome Fan Made Dark Knight Sequel Poster! « FirstShowing.net
And so he jolly well should. The Sun
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It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
That is an attitude to enthuse about when you visit five wineries a day, and it is a jolly approach in a region that has had nothing but seriously bad press over its 2004 vintage.
But she claimed she was filming a promo and it was not a jolly. The Sun
Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial meat, a parcel of cheek-puffing victuals, and a little belly-timber and provision for the guts of these poor folks, who have nothing but their life in this world? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Scene repeating itself with slight variations of characters (hair color more platinum than dirty blonde, tie unloosened rather than removed, girl drinking a Jolly Rancher instead of a Grape Crush, etc).
During a jolly visit to the island, Johnson and Boswell danced a reel on the flat top of Dun Caan and discovered a prehistoric souterrain near Raasay House.
It describes at some length and in jolly detail (as do the various links from it, which are also worth following) the ways in which those massive cyber success stories YouTube and Twitter are believed to be losing money hand over fist, currently surviving only on the largesse of venture capitalists and Google (which recently bought YouTube despite it being loss-making). P2pnet World Headlines – May 7, 2009
It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery.
Albert Hall, a new dress of silver and paste diamonds, a fat supper, and that jolly feeling of believing that a real "beano" is justified because, after all, _we_ won the war, didn't we? Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
At least, it offered a jolly background for the family gathering.
By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
I love the bright yellow you've painted the children's room - it makes it look really jolly.
This may have been a non-event of Olympic proportions, but at least it all looked jolly impressive for 15 seconds on local TV news later in the evening.
There are stern mother superiors, innocent novitiates, jolly sisters.
Even Ponting describes the quiet as "appalling" on one of his intertitles, which otherwise often have a jolly-jape feel. The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence
The fact is that he sounds so, well, jolly contented, and perhaps a bit of lonely yearning would have made the material a little more challenging and rewarding.
Oft he moistified his skin in jolly Ruixton's little inn.
IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely controlling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people. Main Street
This Santa is as fat and jolly as he needs to be, and really is a good guy, but he also has a regiment of armed-to-the-teeth elves to defend his high-tech Polar home.
He is no longer responsible for the day-to-day running of the chain, but he still makes time for jolly banter with the staff.
Her brother remembered her as always "of a cheerful and jolly disposition '. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
‘Mr Dinos is a jolly nice horse, and I've got quite a few decent stayers in my stable,’ Cole said.
Well, okay, it's still pretty ridiculous-and no less so just because in relation to his overall body mass, Tanuki's scrotum is proportionately larger than the scrota of elephants, whales, and the Jolly Green Giant. Villa Incognito
Today all we make is a jolly snazzy vacuum cleaner. Times, Sunday Times
I turned in shortly before dawn feeling not half bad; it was snug and jolly to see Susie snoring away in the dim candle-light, with one fine tit peeping out among the frills; I nibbled away until she squirmed into wakefulness, whereafter we set to partners, celebrating the first civilised bed we'd occupied since the Planter's Hotel, if you like. Isabelle
We promised ourselves a few days - ‘as long as it takes’ - of rest and recuperation, not to mention re-adjustment, and we're jolly well taking our time over it.
The Lion's Club, the Rotary, the Women's Institute, whatever was on the social calendar you could bet that Ant would be involved, jollying everyone along, making sure everyone got a chance to shine.
This room needs jollying up how about yellow and red wallpaper?
It was all jolly good fun .
See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence! The Newcomes
It can be built, in jolly quick time, when a nation has access to its own MONEY. Matthew Yglesias » Books-a-Million
And there was always a lot of jolly fellows, and usedn't they to cheer me w'en the horses 'u'd play up a bit. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
The name, ‘in the monkeys,’ refers to a credit system where by jolly tars would put up their pet simians as credit.
Everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood.
Dwellers on Funen got the designation “unworried and jolly”, but the Zealanders were “slow and over-cautious”. Archive 2009-05-01
Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore.
I hope we can give those Americans a jolly good thrashing. The Sun
He's a jolly soul.
(serving is probably equivalent to 4 Jolly spags!). An Apple a Day
All most unfortunate, for it was never the case that Hancock took a bung, just a common-or-garden jolly. Hugh Muir's diary
The anchors down and Lieutenant Shortland gone in the jollyboat to Supply to see Governor Phillip, Richard stood alone at the rail and gazed for a long time at the place to which, by an Imperial Order-in-Council, he had been transported until the 23rd of March, 1792. Morgan’s Run
A jolly old throstle is singing away in the elm which overhangs the parson's gate. Despair's Last Journey
For some reason this jolly soul has become one of the main media spokespeople for the creed that disputes man-made global warming, and this encounter was informative because it illustrated how the balance had tipped, and it was they who had to learn a list of dubious facts and recite them with desperation to anyone whose arm is grabbable. What's Going On
But, he remembers, there was that place in Wales where, as a student, he and his friends had that jolly time, and where the landlady was so accommodating.
This is jolly clever technology.
It would certainly make this interview jolly awkward. Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally he played a game of chess with Parson Fisher, the jolly ex-clergyman, or smoked a pipe with the sadler-postmaster; he attended all the East Patten tea-parties, too, but he made himself so uniformly agreeable to all the ladies that the mothers in Israel agreed with many sighs, that the major was not a marrying man. Romance of California Life
Back at base, Alec arrives looking his usual jolly self, full of anticipation and excitement about the coming evening as he chats with the rest of the crew.
The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
It got off to an uncertain start this year with Bristol's Essential Festival, a three-day May bank holiday jolly.
The day my hairdryer blew the hair right off my head was another jolly one. Times, Sunday Times
Then the curtains to a sleeper compartment drew back and this jolly man said he would help. Times, Sunday Times
Ten minutes a day, while drinking the bedtime cocoa, would be a jolly good start.
[This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ballad, or poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.] "Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks. Kenilworth
The majority of people attending this beanfeast for the BBC are going to be the usual media liggers on a jolly. THE GLASTONBURY JUNKET
She was a very jolly and contented person with a hearty laugh.
A) Freeze a jolly good fellow! The Sun
He had to deal with the rents of episcopal properties, to correspond with clerical claimants, and to be at home with the circumstances of underpaid vicars and perpetual curates with much less than 300 pounds a-year; but yet he was as jolly and pleasant at his desk as though he were busied about the collection of the malt tax, or wrote his letters to admirals and captains instead of to deans and prebendaries. He Knew He Was Right

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