Example Sentences

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Well anyhow, folks who think God’s will jest has to do with sufferin’ and dyin’, they done missed the whole point.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Whatever it is, your religion suits me, if you will jest show me the way.

From May Brooke by Dorsey, Anna Hanson

S. Because that I familiarly sometimes Do use you for my fool, and chat with you, Your sauciness will jest upon my love, And make a common of my serious hours.

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

The Kernel ses he guesses he will jest get the messige out in rough and send it into Congris, an let Sumnure, Chandler, Lovejoy an Thad Stevens lick it into shape.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

"You an' me will jest keep close, Paul, an' we won't light no fire."

From The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)