"See here, Sterry," he said, assuming an affected jocularity which deceived no one, "I'll own you've played it on me mighty fine.

The contents of the last the composer-publisher took care to put beyond reach of his many creditors whom he, in consequence, faced with a seemingly care-free, if artificial, jocularity.

"Hello, Sandy," exclaimed Tom, with an assumed jocularity which he was very far from feeling, "what are you doing with those gorgeous garments?"

The heir has of late, by the instigation of his sisters, begun to harass her with clownish jocularity; he seems inclined to make his first rude essays of waggery upon her; and by the connivance, if not encouragement, of his father, treats her with such licentious brutality, as I cannot bear, though I cannot punish it.

The inversion deceives no person, and it is almost more appropriate to the colloquial jocularity of the great Lexicographer's bombast than if the enunciation had been more strictly according to rule.

When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.

The Sears children regarded her familiar jocularity with undisguised repugnance; and when Jimmy heard Mrs. Jones tell his little sister Annie that morning that she was no longer the baby, Jimmy's rage at what he considered a fiendish thrust at the innocent and forsaken child passed the bounds of endurance.

Is this only a flippant jocularity, or is there here in very truth some profound law of the mind revealing itself in spheres seemingly so disconnected?

"Shall I wait for the butter-woman or get some creamery?" Mr. Deacon now felt his little jocularities lost before a wall of the matter of fact.

Gallienus was fond of such practical jocularity.

" "Afeard is it?" responded Brian, with simulated jocularity, though his countenance still wore an expression of dismay.

His mother noticed the change in him, a new wisdom, a sweet jocularity, and, withal, the return of much of his old natureits rough camaraderie, its boyish liveliness and homely simplicity.

Andlook you!this misery passes along the world under the mask of easy indifference, and wears a smiling face, and submits to be rallied by the wit, and assumes itself the air of vulgar jocularity.