Jolly

Famous quotes containing the word jolly:

    “As I went on Yule day
    In our procession,
    Knew I jolly Jankin
    By his merry tone—
    Kyrie eleison.”
    —Unknown. Jolly Jankin (l. Chorus.)

    “Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
    Under the shade of a coolibah tree;”
    —Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)

    ““The room’s very hot, with all this crowd,” the Professor said to Sylvie. “I wonder why they don’t put some lumps of ice in the grate? You fill it with lumps of coal in the winter, you know, and you sit round it and enjoy the warmth. How jolly it would be to fill it now with lumps of ice, and sit round it and enjoy the coolth!””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)