I have got a jolly new name for my old story.

He and I have had many a jolly time together.

Jolly kind of you I must say, but another time maybe.

At least his mother had a jolly day out, which we're all trying to have today.

And a jolly home to come back to, when they're over.

The whole jolly town is up in arms about him.

And were on for a go with the jolly girls.

It will be jolly to have somebody to play with.

Always, in the past, it had been such a jolly day.

"How are you getting on with the jolly old stuff?"

You obviously had a jolly time talking to the well off then?

He was in anything but a jolly frame of mind.

He loved to think of his mother, and the other jolly people.

"I'm just being the jolly father of the girl friend."

I never saw a jollier looking lot of people in my life.

This is really the jolliest little place I ever was in.

It has nothing to do with being able to give a lady a jolly time.

He was a jolly man with a short white beard.

A jolly man, very pleased with himself and the world.

But he seems quite jolly and decisive about the move.

Jolly came close to me, his face tight and cold.

We're going to have one jolly time just explaining his death to her.

She describes it as a jolly period of her life.

The atmosphere is jolly - it all seems too good to be true.

Everybody involved will tell themselves how jolly hard they worked.

I had a jolly good look when we were there.

If it was important, she could jolly well tell me later.

Oh well in that case, a jolly good time was had by all.

Like me, he's told you all he jolly well can.

Though she would take jolly good care not to let it happen again.

"We'll just jolly well have to find some other way of getting across the river."

We've taken this thing on together, and we'll jolly well all share in everything.

If anyone was in the hall he could jolly well show himself first!

On the whole, I think that we are jolly well out of it.

I'm jolly well going to vote for the party who I would like to form the next government.

And let them jolly well explain the reason to him.

It's a jolly good bit of land here, you know.

Why had he turned so jolly all of a sudden?

Getting the balance of the two right is jolly hard to do.

And I have yet to meet a happy fat girl - they're very jolly in public.

Now you'd do well to think them over, and jolly carefully at that.

I was jolly well going to do my own marathon.

A jolly good idea because that's where everyone sat anyway.

What they want just now is a jolly good scare.

If the Commission wanted to give our business away to the rest of the world, then it has done a jolly good job.

Then he could jolly well get on with things - and came out into the passage.

I think we can get out of this place into jolly well Anywhere!

"Thought it would be a jolly good idea to bring along that other lot of letters."

A little more of this and you'll get a jolly good hiding.

"Just what Tom said,'Keep jolly'; but, dear me, how can one, when everything is so stupid and tiresome?"

But I have witnessed PCO's and Police alike being spat at by youths 'out on a jolly'.

It disheartened Dr Daruwalla to see this old-fashioned adjective - a synonym for 'jolly' or 'merry' or 'frolicsome' or 'blithe' - take on a much more serious meaning.

I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit, overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the 'jolly', but someone 'pulled rank' and took my place, thus saving my life and losing his.

I tried to jolly her along with talk that it would all work itself out.

I have to jolly them a bit, now that I'm making out better.

At times he was like a small boy and must be jollied along.

I knew better than to attempt to jolly her out of it.

Always had a word and a laugh to jolly you along.

I jolly them along and- Could be trouble, too, for me to head off.

Or at least I like to jolly myself into believing that they do.

These sellers cannot be jollied, so I no longer try.

You know as well as I do how important it is to jolly her along.

A relief, that they had only a few weeks left to work together, and he didn't have to jolly her up any more.

Will tried to jolly the party up and failed.

This was not a woman to be jollied along.

We manage to jolly each other up a lot.

"We wanted to jolly ourselves up in these times."

Didn't you ever think I needed somebody to jolly me out of it sometimes?"

And Tisha was not there to jolly him out of his depression.

I jolly nearly went on fire myself," Simon reflected with feeling.

Few Presidents have been jollied so tirelessly by the media.

Nice children, she said to herself, always willing to give a hand, and always jolly together.

Do you think you could jolly up that line for me?"

It is trying to jolly the ayatollahs out of their nuclear ambitions.

I handed it back to her and jollied her along, you know.

She sort of - well, jollied him into it.

They jollied on the guests, creating the atmosphere of a tropical house party.

Angelina must have seen my scowl and she tried to jolly me out of it.

"Just what Tom said,'Keep jolly'; but, dear me, how can one, when everything is so stupid and tiresome?"

But I have witnessed PCO's and Police alike being spat at by youths 'out on a jolly'.

It disheartened Dr Daruwalla to see this old-fashioned adjective - a synonym for 'jolly' or 'merry' or 'frolicsome' or 'blithe' - take on a much more serious meaning.

I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit, overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the 'jolly', but someone 'pulled rank' and took my place, thus saving my life and losing his.

She heard the jolly boat come back just before dawn.

Use the jolly boat and we'll have to lower it loaded.

That's what warships have away teams and jolly boats for.

The ocean around the jolly boat underwent an abrupt change.

A glance back showed that by some miracle the jolly boat seemed to be in roughly the right position.

The jolly boat bumped and ground against the sand.

The fact that it was the very same beach on which the Jolly Boat landed is nothing short of miraculous.

He leaped into the jolly boat and whipped the towline off the cleat.

Overall, four had escaped in the jolly boat and another eight had been brought off from the rigging.

Rowing ashore in two jolly boats, he was the first of the party to set foot on Australian soil.

The jolly boat nosed at her stern rope like a puppy just broken to leash.

Ramage nodded and Lacey scrambled down into the jolly boat.

Finally the little jolly boat was hoisted out - rowing four oars, she carried eight armed men.

The term 'jolly boat' has several potential origins.

Bells jangled the instant the jolly boat grounded.

Watching through the ship's glass, he had seen Moonless's jolly boat swallowed by fog arising out of nowhere.

She rowed one stroke, two, three; a wave lifted the keel and coasted the jolly boat forward.

She abandoned the jolly boat where it lay and crossed the sand spit to Callinde.

'You can have six men and the jolly boat, and start at dusk.'

By the time the Jolly Boat made landfall, only two of the seven survivors of the attack were still alive.

Hornblower is set to command the Indefatigables jolly boat.

'Get aft and lower that jolly boat.

Have the jolly boat manned--I'll be on shore for a couple of hours.'

The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Jolly boats were usually the smallest type of boat carried on ships, and were generally between 16 and 18 feet long.