Example Sentences
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Jests Mississippi House Member Jerry Gilbreath: "We have a minority leader, a party whip and one whippee�me."
From Time Magazine Archive
Jests Mondale: "This is the imperial vice presidency."
From Time Magazine Archive
Convivial Jester, or Bane of Melancholy; being an unrivalled collection of the Most celebrated and pointed Jests, Puns, and Repartees, ever before published in the whole world; . . .
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
In Pasquil's Jests, 1604 occurs an account substantially similar to the present, of "how a merchant lost his purse between Waltam and London."
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
Jests and songs at the expense of the Comte de Clermont have not been wanting, and the King has intimated to him that he is displeased and scandalised.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
