Lexicographical Neighbors of Jollifies
Literary usage of Jollifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People's Book: Comprising Their Chartered Rights and Practical Wrongs by William Carpenter (1831)
"... the family of the jollifies, from whom it will be taken by the projected
reform !—Petersfield, to use the language of lord ..."
2. Lord Beaconsfield's Correspondence with His Sister, 1832-1852 by Benjamin Disraeli (1886)
"Tuesday at the jollifies'; Wednesday, Lady Braye ; Thursday at Lord Brougham's.
All the parties should have been agreeable, as there were wits and beauties ..."
3. The Heir Expectant by Ross Neil (1870)
"And then Olivia and the Miss jollifies, and ostensibly Miss Elkins (only she was
not of much use), all put their heads together as to the manner in which ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Edward Christian (1800)
"... if he jollifies in another's right as his bailiff or ferrant, he is faid to
make cognizance ; that is, ..."
5. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1914)
"The visit to the jollifies was very agreeable, notwithstanding a north-east wind,
that really cut me in two. . . . Notwithstanding a blazing sun, ..."
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