| 1. | "Well aged parent," said Wemmick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, "how am you. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigirin talks. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | We see nothing merry or jocose in his behaviour with his pilgrims, but a silent attention to their mirth, rather than any mixture of his own. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |