The dealers in feathers took counsel together, and those who had not received a call from the jocose gentleman said to one another: "Perhaps the fellow will begin again to-morrow night; we must prepare to give him a warm reception."
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
The convulsion of laughter into which my blunder and the Scotchman's passion threw the whole board, lasted till the cloth was withdrawn, and the ladies had retired to the drawing-room, the only individual at table not relishing the mistake being the injured proprietor of the bottle, who was too proud to accept reparation from my friend's decanter, and would scarcely condescend to open his lips during the evening; notwithstanding which display of honest indignation, we contrived to become exceedingly merry and jocose, most of the party communicating little episodes of their life, in which, it is true, they frequently figured in situations that nothing but their native and natural candour would venture to avow.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
How good you have been about mine, how willing to take an interest in the people I met, in the places I saw, in everything I told you about; and when I was jocose, you pretended to be amused.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas