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Caricatures, placards, bons-mots, have been indulged in by all ranks of people, and I know of no well attested instance of a single punishment.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

He consoled himself for his plots by taking extraordinary liberties with them, and amused himself with quips, bons-mots, epigrams and repartee that had really nothing to do with the business in hand.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

Jokes and bons-mots passed over the table, and from mouth to mouth.

From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange

I quote this merely as one of the average bons-mots which made the small change of his ordinary conversation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

His comments on our news were always much more spirituels than the best of bons-mots we could impart, and frequently a good deal more spicy than our versions of Parisian doings.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix