1 Steerforth, after very much improving Mrs. Gummidge's spirits by a cheerful salutation and a jocose embrace, took my arm, and hurried me away.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 2 The old man, who had put on his short sheepskin jacket, was just as good-humored, jocose, and free in his movements.
3 They glided from these serious topics into the jocose insults which are the wit of Main Street.
4 The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigirin talks.
5 "I went there, but I had taken flight," the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness.
6 The prisoner winked at my friend jocosely.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 7 His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect, but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity.