| 1. | What jovial fellows What good company they wer. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | Rucastle came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | Spending the time with jovial gentlemen of Oblonsky's type--she knew now what that meant...it meant drinking and going somewhere after drinking. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | 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. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | Rucastle coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on his face which made him a very different person to the round, jovial man to whom I was accustomed. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | He rubbed his hands adjusted his capacious waistcoat laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voic. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |