"I cannot," said Gallienus, when the project had been explained to him, "object in principle to aught so festive and jocose.

And I to him, in a light and jocose manner"LENT keeps them so well fed that they never keep Lent themselves, I suppose.

"Oh, swimmingly!" answered the jocose Joe.

Mr. Langton told me, that one night he did so while the company were all grave about him:only Garrick, in his significant smart manner, darting his eyes around, exclaimed, 'Very jocose, to be sure!'

He looked rather like a Silenus,very witty, cheerful, good-natured, jocose, and disposed to make people laugh.

So quaint, so short, so lissome, she, It seemed as if it well might be Some jocose god, with sportive whirl, Had taken up a long lithe girl And tied a graceful knot in her.

winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom. playful, playsome^; folatre [Fr.], playful as a kitten, tricksy^, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking. elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing &c 838; cock-a-hoop.

witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful &c 840; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel^, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point,

Happy faces met him as he came in wearied from his duties "on 'change," and he had again assumed his easy, jocose manners.

" This amusing quotation suffices to show that the author of the "Ménagier de Paris" wished to adopt a jocose style, with a view to enliven the seriousness of the subject he was advocating.

All of them were gentle to the blind man, though, as if his darkness had brought to them a ray of light; and presently one of them takes off the musician's cap, drops into it a silver dime, and goes the rounds of the throng with many jocose appeals in favor of the owner, to whom he presently returns it in a condition of silver lining analogous to, but more substantial than that of the poet's cloud.

"I have looked for an accident through that telescope," said the jocose judge, "fifteen Augusts running.

Commonplace enough the hints are,jocose sometimes, done up in rhyme.

she asked, entering into his half-jocose vein.

For instance, he recommends that the tribes be stimulated as much as possible to war with each other, that they may the more easily and completely be kept under the dominion of the whites, and he gives the following record of brutality as quite a jocose and adroit procedure.

'They didn't jump over a broomstick, or anything of that kind?' asked the Squire, intending to be jocose.

He had seen too much of human misery to be habitually jocose, and his whole nature was underlain by a groundwork of melancholy.

The fact is, that the operation was misunderstood, and disbelieved, as we know by the jocose manner in which it is alluded to by Butler.

If there was a flaw in anything, Thomas Harrison had a jocose way of saying, "There is a hole in the ballad."

Sam shook hands with Tom, and made some jocose remark about his new business; but Nellie sneered, and looked out the car window.

But the next time I went to town, friends began to smile mysteriously, asked me if I had been out on the lake yet, made sly and jocose allusions to a sudden change to Baptistic faith, and if I cordially invited them to join me in a row, would declare a preference for surf and salt water, or, if pressed, would murmur in the meanest way something about having a bath-tub at home.

He even, as time passed, became in a sardonic fashion almost jocose.

To pull up at the veranda with a stentorian shout, to thump loudly at the deserted bar, to hilariously beat the panels of the landlord's door, and commit a jocose assault and battery upon that half-dressed and half-awakened man, was eminently characteristic of Wynn, and part of his amiable plans that morning.

As copies of this very clever and jocose production are not now easily obtained, and as some of my younger readers may not have seen it, I have reprinted it in this edition.

"What has she done to be a that woman?" "Offended his Reverence," said Frank, in that sort of jocose tone which betrays annoyance.