jovial

The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy man of high rank, an extremely good-natured, jovial, and extremely dissipated rake.

The Frenchman considered the position, then broke suddenly into jovial expletives, and with an impatient gesture, gathering up the pieces, flung them into their box.

Old six-foot Snodgrass looms on high, With elephantine grace, And beams upon the company, With brown and jovial face.

As he sat down quietly under the shade of a drooping willow he heard snatches of a jovial song floating to him from the farther side; then came a sound of two men's voices arguing.

"Truly, monsieur, you are very jovial," said the unknown, cheerfully.

Under its genial influence the gloomy and morose become jovial and chatty.

And as I resigned myself to this imperative though inglorious course, my heart warmed once more to the jovial young squire.

Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr.

They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.

St Dunstan knew, as well as any one, the prerogatives of a jovial friar.''

"He does promise one," replied Samson; "but he says he has not found it, nor does he know who has got it; and we cannot say whether it will appear or not; and so, on that head, as some say that no second part has ever been good, and others that enough has been already written about Don Quixote, it is thought there will be no second part; though some, who are jovial rather than saturnine, say, 'Let us have more Quixotades, let Don Quixote charge and Sancho chatter, and no matter what it may turn out, we shall be satisfied with that.'"

He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear.