Don't mind if it's a bit heavy, do you?" "I don't want to overstrain myself," said Neddy jocularly, "but I'll do my best with it, only hope it's there!"

"Trelawny here," said Byron jocularly, "has been speaking against my morals."

" The utter dissimilarity which often exists between two persons, or things, is jocularly enjoined in the familiar adage: "As like as an apple is to a lobster,"

It was jocularly said at the Venta that the Wolf was Royalist; for in the first Carlist war it had fought for Queen Christina, doing to death a whole company of insurgents at that which is known as the False Ford, where it would seem that a child could pass while in reality no horseman might hope to get through.

I used to lead Jack with a string in the same manner as I had done the other, for educational purposes, and Lord Grimthorpe jocularly called me Jack's prisoner.

"I'll have to be careful how I sit down now," he remarked, jocularly, to Rack Slimson.

Where did you get so much money?" "I didn't find it in the street," answered Fred jocularly.

The Gander! THE GANDER [Entering, jocularly.]

Walker used to say, jocularly, that he supposed this must have been the wagon for which the landlord whistled, and which came to his call.

"I must marry you, Marance," said I, jocularly, to the damsel, as I jumped her out of the canoe,"I shall marry you when we get back.

Why not, I'd like to know?" "Well, I guess the court ladies are afraid there'd be too many pretty women in the Embassies," he answered jocularly.

But even then, so accustomed were they to looking down upon the object of their former bounty, that they only spoke of the matter jocularly.

Poor little Mrs. Troop was there, tightly buttoned up in her "store clothes," running hither and thither, and protesting to the auctioneer that the "sofy" was worth "twicet as much's Sim Rathbone give for 't." A fearful crash of crockery within brought her hand to her heart, and a voice from the crowd commented jocularly, "Huh! Breakin' up housekeepin'!"

" "That," said the chairman of the Finance Committee, "will not be necessarythough" and he added this wholly jocularly, "though I don't think Mr. Peters should have charged for his time; fifty dollars is a good deal of money.

I did not want to be caught there by a lot of truculent Sikhs under one of those jocularly incredulous young British subalterns that Sikhs adore.

"I can't ask you in," said Mr. Mott, jocularly, as he reached his door, and turned the key in the lock.

Ben Jonson introduces it jocularly: "A man out of wax, As a lady would ax." Masques, vol. 6, p. 85.

"He jocularly observed, on one occasion, to a creditor, who peremptorily required payment of the interest due on a long-standing debt,' My dear sir, you know it is not my interest to pay the principal; nor is it my principle to pay the interest.'

he asked jocularly, and turned his shoulders to her for examination.

Tea-and-sugar borrowing friends have told them jocularly, or with threats, of a good time coming when things will go hard with the uncheerful giver.

Turning to some of the Spaniards who were about him, Cortes said jocularly: "You see that these people esteem us as superior beings; let us encourage their prejudice, and make them believe that one of us can drive an army of the natives before him.

" "Good for you!" said Preston jocularly.

A military friend, and great admirer of Sir David, used jocularly to tell a story of himthat having finished the despatch which must carry home the news of his great action, the capture of Seringapatam, as he was preparing to sign it in great form, he deliberately took off his coat.

On coming away some of the party could not find their hats, and my uncle was jocularly asking the waiter, whom he knew to be a Deeside man, "Whar are our bonnets, Jeems?"

A woman is jocularly called Fiodor Ivanovitch.