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Only a few days before, Hermann Goring had jested: "I have got the best sentence of all."

From Time Magazine Archive

Often as Freda had jested over the proposal Lady Mary was to make her father, she had never believed that he would marry her.

From Gladys, the Reaper by Beale, Anne

She had jested about his height; the six-feet-four of him, as he called it….

From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson

I had jested with him, calling it a megalomaniac notion.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

She had gone down into the field to see him; perhaps the very man who was with him then was one of those who had jested of her and whom he had punished.

From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin