jest sentence examples
- Jests about the contrast
between this ulsterman's austerity and the conviviality of colonel clancy.
- Jesting matter; revolution is a serious business to know whom to shoot, and in accordance with which chapter.
- No, not the breakdown people and yes i
do jest.
- Jests at scars
that never felt a wound.
- Well, actually, yes; a
merry jest
from dr. zamenhof.
- You know that i am
not jesting; i mean what i say.
- It has been a
standing jest
in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.
- Jest of course!
- Jesting word
of the scene.
- The father,
making jest
at himself, asked where i knew this from; i explained that it was high school.
- Even tho it's content may hinder on the offensive and vulgar in some parts, its all in
good jest
and absolutely hilarious.
- He
half jested
give me half a tanker of iron, and i will give you the next ice age.
- Simon i hope your grace will
hear the jest
afore you go.
- But then this was a fellow of " excellent fancy " as well as "
infinite jest.
- As he went, he spoke and
even jested
with the samoans, and they answered in good part.
- The company law reform bill
has jest
been published at the time of writing.
- Their serious thought or
witty jest
will burst my little bubble.
- If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a
cruel jest.
- Mostly, as in this case, it's in
friendly jest
and goes no further.
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