"Fame, of course," he said in a jaunty tone.

He can't sustain his usual jaunty tone.

But that struck him as too jaunty a tone, especially after almost forty years, and so he'd tried again, taking a more straightforward approach.

Mr. Malone's jaunty tone elicited few smiles from this crowd.

"Morning, " Quinn said in a jaunty tone.

The jaunty tone was jarring.

Then his words came in a mutter so unlike his usual jaunty tones as he announced, 'They won't have me.'

"My name is St. John Alaric Hirst," he began in a jaunty tone of voice.

"However," he said, resuming his jaunty tone, "I suppose one must just make up one's mind to it."

It later takes on a jaunty satirical tone when Peer Gynt becomes a successful businessman and a would-be prophet.