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They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.

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 Meanings and Examples of JOVIAL
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jovial
 a.  good-natured; marked by good cheer; cheerful and good-humored
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Here Wamba and Gurth, with their allies the Black Knight and Locksley, and the jovial hermit, awaited with impatience an answer to their summons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  Admit him," said Front-de-Boeuf; "most likely he brings us news from his jovial master.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Richard looked around, and beheld the jovial Friar on his knees, telling his rosary, while his quarter-staff, which had not been idle during the skirmish, lay on the grass beside him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  As I strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
5  He was a dashing, jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
6  He had just completed his examination when the hall lights flew up, the door opened, and the owner of the house, a jovial, rotund figure in shirt and trousers, presented himself.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always had good health.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
8  Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial mien.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
9  Father Hucheloup was a jovial host.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10  Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
11  No one ever regretted the admittance of Sam Weller, for a more devoted, well-behaved, and jovial member no club could have.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
12  In a word, I never saw anybody so thoroughly jovial as Mr. Micawber was, down to the very last moment of the evening, when I took a hearty farewell of himself and his amiable wife.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
13  The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy man of high rank, an extremely good-natured, jovial, and extremely dissipated rake.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
14  They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  A frown seemed out of place on his invariably jovial face.
2  He was falsely jovial, with his booming, mirthless laugh.