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Sentence Examples He went about his work, unheedful of the jests, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him. Many begin to slip into unspoken worrit about those people, who'd been so hostile to our jests earlier on. I knew it to be Tom, and was not pleased to think that soon he would ride past me, teasing and making jests. Then there was laughter and well-wishing and noise-making from the hall as those outside sounded cymbals amidst shouts and jests. On the program was a comedy duo that exchanged jests and japes and clouted one another upon the head with Indian clubs. What made the visit unusual was that along with the rest of the audience, the President laughed freely in response to the jokes and jests. He's always been a cryptic songwriter, fond of oblique references and catchy off-the-wall phrasings, but here his metaphors and jests are haunted with regret and suspicion. He scowled, then, thinking back on their jests and jokes with each other. He didn't talk so much as honk, and the merriment he evinced at his own jests produced a laugh that sounded like snot being hoovered up with a surgical tube. Seemingly innocent phenomena like puns or jests are as open to interpretation as more obviously tendentious, obscene, or hostile jokes. You won't see these values branded on their uniforms but instead brought to life through their daily activities and simple jests. The practice of it, in spite of popular jests, tends to make good citizens and good men. And therefore the bishops, belike, taking his works but for jests and toys, in condemning other books, yet permitted his books to be read. The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar. Zumanity, the sensual side of Cirque du Soleil, presents a seductive, temptation-filled dimension of reality where jests and taboos titillate curiosity. Observers as early as Quintilian, however, have pointed out that, though folly is laughable in itself, such jests may be improved if the writer adds something of his own namely, wit. These are thought to have combined with a tradition of performances by masked dancers and musicians from Etruria to form saturae, medleys consisting of jests, slapstick, and songs. Zizou jests with Titi about a free-kick he scored for Arsenal. In his distress he indulges in all sorts of jests before coming to the realisation that the freedom the author is offering him is a magnificent gift. Show More Sentences They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns. Jests are silly, and some of the silliest are shaggy-dog stories. Examples from Classical Literature His mirth is bawdy jests with the wenches, and, behind the door, bawdy earnest. He went about his work, unheedful of the jests of troke, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him. Besides it is a jeering and flouting vice, and apt to put jests on the reprover. The drawings and jests that did not leave much to be filled out, adorned many a German page with an Adamic candor. Some of them probably heard the jests at the expense of their dialectal peculiarities which Plautus introduced into his comedies. They were exceeding noisy, singing most discordantly and laughing at indecent jests. A few daring jests, a brawl, and a fatal stab, make up the life of Marlowe. The noisiest and the roughest there forgot the jests they had made at Lunardi's expense. How I hate the glib rattle of his tongue, the mouldiness of his jests and the transparency of his puffery! A frenzied explosion of yells, jests, and applause covered the finale. My jests, gentlemen, are of course in bad taste, jerky, involved, lacking self-confidence. The master then went from easel to easel, scolding, flattering, jesting, and making, as usual, his jests more dreaded than his reprimands. An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again. In the making of fancies and jests he sees a chance of delay. But his jests were the vehicles for telling to them the soundest truths. There are continual jests about the contrast between this Ulsterman's austerity and the conviviality of Colonel Clancy. Quip had followed quip until in their jests they transcended all bounds. His driver sat, whip in hand, magnificently impenetrable to the gibes and jests that were flying around her. The jests of varus and the wisdom of Porphyrius alike failed to reach him. Show More Sentences The minstrel, like the fighters, revels in hard knocks and rough jests. Gondy related to them the insults he had received at the Palais Royal and retailed the jests of Beautin, the Count de Villeroy and Marechal de la Meilleraie. Find more words! 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