"Well," said the widow, more affably, "say you are-" "I are engaged to be married," promptly struck in the major, with untimely jocoseness.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
Then Coventry, who was smarting with jealousy, set himself to cool all this down by a subtle cold sort of jocoseness, which, without being downright rude, operates on conversation of the higher kind like frost on expanding buds.
"Put Yourself in His Place"
Charles Reade
Joseph walked homewards with deliberation, in absent mood, his countenance alternating strangely between a look of mischievous jocoseness and irritable concern; occasionally he muttered to himself.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing