He kept his tone jovial as he said, "Then you had best be going, my dear.

"Mr. Ward sent you," said he to me in a jovial tone.

One could sense this immediately when his previously jovial tone turned somber.

"Q and I have been a little busy," she said, backing her jovial tone with a broad smile.

"Ice water, coming right up," Earl said, forcing a jovial tone that he had little strength to sustain.

"Just write the name," said the general, in a jovial tone.

Even potential campaign liabilities can be discussed in jovial tones.

I spoke in a loud and jovial tone.

"You must smell the stones," Goldsworthy said in a jovial tone.

He had lost the jovial tone, his voice grating like rock across sandpaper.