jollily

"Off with those absurd impediments to our vision," said Boots, jollily, to her.

The niece laughed jollily.

"Oh, so sorry," she said jollily.

A slim golden tentacle came weaving out of the doorway, rippling jollily like a snake that has been taught to shimmy.

With your permission, I'll call on Ignis-fatuus to our aid: I see one yonder burning jollily.

While McCarthy is strolling the aisles, extolling the virtues of medical knee grips and cotton buds, he's jollily greeting the shoppers.

He was a careless, yet eager-looking fellow, who walked with long strides, sometimes frowning, often with his cap pushed jollily to the back of his head.

Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and so, alow here, does jolly Stubb.

Paul loved to see the black grains trickle down a crack in his palm into the mouth of the straw, peppering jollily downwards till the straw was full.

--Hoho, we will, Ben Dollard yodled jollily.

The New Yorker commented, "I'd take more pleasure in discussions schola'ly / If Bergen Evans wouldn't laugh so jollily."

Well, if so, ask the old Rat for a love drink; he can mix it, and then you will think her sweet and sound and fair, and spend some few months jollily enough.

In 1809, in "Knickerbocker's History of New York," Irving makes St. Nick a friendly Dutch-American deity "riding jollily among the tree-tops" in (of all things) a wagon, not only on Christmas but also on any old holiday afternoon.

And so the great party went jollily on, night after night, presided over by owner Steve Rubell, irrepressible though always zonked on 'ludes (co-owner Ian Schrager, the son of a Meyer Lansky lieutenant, was all but invisible).

Old Asia enjoyed the joke as much as Daisy, and laughed jollily as the little girl came flying into the room with her cap all on one side, the lids of her basket rattling like castanets and looking like a very crazy little cook.