Allegory was popular at the time, so " old Christmas " was given a voice to protest his exclusion, along with the form of a rambunctious, jolly old man.

Jim lives in an old fire house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend and mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz, a jolly Brooklynite who constantly extols the virtues of spiritual enlightenment, having spent time amongst Buddhist monks in Tibet, and builds ' art ' from car parts.

Tom Ballard ( Graham Crowden )-Tom is an optimistic, jolly old man who is new to the home.

: Britons all, both young and old, think of those jolly sailors bold.

On Christmas Eve, the captain would use his onboard radar to track Santa's progress as the jolly old elf made his international rounds.

Patsy is famous for playing round, jolly, often slightly insane old women.

: n bounded that jolly, fat and funny old elf, Santa Claus.

He was described by Horace Walpole, in his Memories, as "… Blackbourn, the jolly old Archbishop of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman ; but he retained nothing of his first profession, except his seraglio.

According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, The Song of the Western Men was possibly inspired by the song Come, all ye jolly tinner boys which was written more than ten years earlier in about 1807, when Napoleon Bonaparte made threats that would affect trade in Cornwall at the time of the invasion of Poland.

: Now this makes them jolly upset, let me tell you.

" A 1995 piece in The Plain Dealer described Taylor as " A jolly giant of a man, he looks like a natural force-a mountain, perhaps, who can tell great stories.

" Under her rule, innkeepers who were not fat and jolly or inclined to tell jokes were sent to the dungeon, and Genua's ruler, the Baron Saturday, was murdered so that his heir apparent, Ella, could be a neglected orphan, as the tales dictated.

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

* Charlotte Palmer — the daughter of Mrs. Jennings and the younger sister of Lady Middleton, Mrs Palmer is jolly but empty-headed and laughs at inappropriate things, such as her husband's continual rudeness to her and to others.

Boarders and neighbors remembered her as a jolly Irish lady, full of life and mischief, but she was already in the final stages of tuberculosis when the family reached Silver City.

Ingeborg was well liked and popular in Sweden because of her good humour, her easy-going and jolly personality and her informal way of acting.

She had small roles in three of her father's films: Stage Fright ( 1950 ), in which she played a jolly acting student named Chubby Bannister, one of Wyman's school chums ; Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), playing Barbara Morton, future sister-in-law of Guy Haines ( Farley Granger ); and Psycho ( 1960 ), playing Janet Leigh's plain-Jane office mate, Caroline, who generously offers to share tranquilizers that her mother gave her for her wedding night.

When Lucy first stumbles on the wardrobe, Peter doesn't believe her, thinking it is just her imagination until he and the other Pevensies enter the wardrobe themselves ; " A jolly good hoax, Lu ".

Although she fancies herself as a jolly, upbeat joker, everyone who encounters Joyce finds her irritating and thick.

The excessive tone can also be managed with " jolly jumpers " and other aids to the upright stance that do not constrain the child but help him or her gradually tone down the rigidity.

He excels in humour more than in wit ; is jolly rather than gay ; melancholy rather than morose ; can easily be moved to a sudden tear or surprised into a broad laugh ; but he loathes sentiment and has no turn for light pleasantry.

According to Martin, Gardenia showed no signs of illness, adding, “ It was just a jolly evening .”

Mudface's account of the Flood and its aftermath takes up most of the book, and it is by no means a jolly story.

Mark's catchphrase is that " There's no credit in being jolly " under benign circumstances and so he constantly urges himself to find a more challenging set of circumstances in order to test his good spirits.

As a large and jolly figure of fun, Smith was seen attempting to touch his toes whilst a presenter stated: " Nice one, Sir Cyril, but Access is more flexible ".

Twoflower is disappointed, believing he should be dressed in brightly-coloured clothes and " more sort of ... jolly ".

At the outset of World War I, the popularity of the colonial troops at the time led to the replacement of the West Indian by the now more familiar jolly Senegalese infantry man enjoying Banania.

For the second episode (" The Train Job "), Whedon created a more " jolly " Mal Reynolds.

", a likely remark that during Clinton's first term he gave the image that it was a jolly time to be in office and was seen more doing recreational activities and not officious duties.

Woods often missed school to watch cricket, and recounts that on more than one occasion he " got a jolly good caning ".

One day however it was remarked that the golden farmer looked more jolly than golden, so the pub changed its name and was henceforth known as the Jolly Farmer.

It's jolly annoying, but it is better than being the Queen of Hearts ".

Robert Barnard: " Most of the stories in this collection are ' jolly ', rather than detection.

Lilith has had people arrested for crimes against stories, including the arrest of a toymaker for not being jolly, not whistling and not telling the children stories.

The term comes from the works of Alexandra David-Néel, who claimed to have created a tulpa in the image of a jolly Friar Tuck-like monk which later developed a life of its own and had to be destroyed.

The tulpa concept was brought to the West in the 19th century by Alexandra David-Néel, who claimed to have created a tulpa in the image of a jolly, Friar Tuck-like monk which later developed a life of its own and had to be destroyed.

* Mel Brooks as Bigweld, the jolly inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries ; until Rodney met him, Bigweld had slipped into depression at Ratchet's actions.

Translation: On the 30th day of May was a jolly May-game in Fenchurch Street ( London ) with drums and guns and pikes, The Nine Worthies did ride ; and they all had speeches, and the morris dance and sultan and an elephant with a castle and the sultan and young moors with shields and arrows, and the lord and lady of the May ".

Pulttibois featured characters that had been modified from those originated in Petelius and Kalliala's previous shows, such as the jolly drunk Laplanders, the over-emotional gentlemen, the pair of gypsy boys and the unnecessarily loud pair of army officers but also emphasized original characters.

By January, he had arrived in Portugal, and from there endeavoured to England, where he met Charles II and Samuel Pepys, who described him as " a very jolly and good comely man.

For example, Meriadoc Brandybuck's actual name is supposed to have been Kalimac Brandagamba, short Kali ( meaning jolly, merry ).

Jackson has been described by Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies thus: " She's been here forever: a bit ' jolly hockey sticks ' but firm, fair and funny.

* 1998 On the whole it's been jolly good ( for Maurice Denham ; m ), rpt. 1999

* 2002 On the whole it's been jolly good, rpt again

Friend of the dramatist Franciszek Bohomolec, he has been described as " open and friendly ", " extremely jolly and witty ", also well versed in sarcasm.