He surrendered them all in 1885, having reached the age at which, as he jocosely remarked to the writer, “Every scientific man ought to be poleaxed.”

"We might have a double marriage!" said the little man jocosely.

This was not merely an excuse, but a fact, upon which Tom Murdock built much consolation for his "partial failure," as he himself jocosely called it; but he was savage at heart.

The ideas are often jocosely put, but the principle is one of mere retribution.

Ay," said the doctor jocosely, "but not to the young lady as Tom is bail for!