"Jovially" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said jovially, one evening, as he went into the lodgings in Vernon Street and found his sisters sitting over their somewhat inadequate evening meal, "Times are looking up, I must tell you. I shouldn't wonder if you were better ...
— The Arbiter - A Novel • Lady F. E. E. Bell
... Rob?" he asked jovially one evening at supper about a month later. "Does he still ...
— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham
... [jovially] Sae dauntingly gaed he; He played a spring and danced it round, [lively tune] Below the ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... shouted jovially, as he bade Christina good-bye, "I see I can't pull you out of this place with a stumping machine just yet. But I'll call around for you again in about five years or so, and ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... do it," said Craig jovially. "I can pack a trunk twice as quick as any man you ever saw. I pack with my feet as well as with ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... was a great joke on both of us," said John jovially, "what we thought about that box of cigarettes, you know. They were a prize given by a bridge club at an 'Ambassador' benefit for the Good Samaritan Hospital. Eileen, the little card shark she is, won ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... relations of such wonders, That Truth therein doth lighten, while Art thunders, All Tongues fled to him that at Babel swerved, Left they for want of warm months might have starved, Where they do revel in such passing measure, (Especially the Greek, wherein's his pleasure.) That (jovially) so Greek he takes the guard of, That he's the merriest Greek that ere was heard of; For he as 'twere his Mothers twittle twattle, (That's Mother-tongue) the Greek can prittle prattle. Nay, of that ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley |
