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Sentences starting with jest

Jest get him to shet up them books of his, and take hold of anybody's troubles, and you'll see how he 'll straighten 'em out. [6]
Jest keep right on till you're jest out of gunshot an' then make your cut-off into the sage. [13]
Jest look at Heth! [9]
Jest go up an' knock at the door number seven, and say Tom Wright sent ye. [9]
Jest tuckered, that's all. [9]
Jest sets in a corner--won't talk, won't eat--jest sets thar. [9]
Jest go. [13]

Sentences ending with jest

We remember too well the foolish and flippant mockery of Gay's "Life is a Jest. [6]
Is that a truth when this may be a jest? [11]
But their biting tongues had ceased to mock or jest. [10]
Hast been minded to cozen me, the good King thy father, who loveth thee, and kindly useth thee, with a sorry jest? [5]
The success of this manoeuvre tickled Mr Quilp beyond description, and he laughed and stamped upon the ground as at a most irresistible jest. [12]
Unless it was taken by somebody in jest--only in jest, dear grandfather, which would make me laugh heartily if I could but know it--' 'Who would take money in jest? [12]
But now she soothed him with gentle and tender words, smiled at his thinking they could ever part, and rallied him cheerfully upon the jest. [12]
Dolokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to jest. [2]
The king burst out in a fury, and said: "What meaneth this ill-mannered jest? [5]
Glaukias, a man of scarcely middle height, was sure of not being recognized, and he and his comrades looked forward to whatever might happen as merely an amusing jest. [10]

Short sentences using jest

Don't talk of jest. [12]
Bess, jest look here. [13]
Ah, 'twas a gallant jest! [5]
And that's jest a make-believe? [4]
Shingle, Emerson's jest, 364. [6]
He'd jest left. [13]

Sentences containing jest two or more times

Maybe he's all jest 'z he ought to be,--I caan't say that he a'n't,--but he's aout late nights, 'n' lurkin' raonn' jest 'z ef he was spyin' somebody, 'n' somehaow I caan't help mistrustin' them Portagee-lookin' fellahs. [6]
Even when a jest misses fire completely, so that it is no jest at all, but only a jocular intention, they laugh just as heartily. [6]
I drank on evenly, not doggedly, and answered jest for jest without a hot breath of drunkenness. [11]

More example sentences with the word jest in them

But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
An' I'd like you to see jest how hard an' cruel this border life is. [13]
He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
Then, when the why and wherefore of my being at this supper were in the hazard, the stake, as a wicked jest of Bigot's, was mentioned. [11]
It's jest as well to have 'em pooty as long as they don't cost any more than if they was Tom and Sally. [6]
Things are as we take them--the gravest face may have a wart, upon which a jest can be made. [10]
I believe I was the butt of more than one jest for my aloofness, though I could not hear distinctly for the noise they made. [9]
This discussion, which was not at all by way of a jest, amused Dada far more than the tablets, cylinders and cones covered with numbers and cabalistic signs, to which Medius tried to direct her attention. [10]
There is a very old and familiar story, accompanied by a feeble jest, which most of my readers may probably enough have met with in Joe Miller or elsewhere. [6]
Jake made his usual preliminary signal, and delivered himself to the following effect: "Wahl, I don' know jest what to say. [6]
The landlady was urgent that he should try a certain nostrum which had saved somebody's life in jest sech a case. [6]
Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else. [11]
Don't you want to wait here, jest a little while, till I come back? [6]
She jest said to me, 'Where's muvver Jane? [13]
What I want to know is, whether anything has been heerd, and jest what's been done about findin' the poor thing. [6]
I didn't want to go to sleep, of course; but I was so sleepy I couldn't help it; so I thought I would take jest one little cat-nap. [5]
He tried several times to join in the conversation, but his remarks were tossed aside each time like a cork thrown out of the water, and he could not jest with them. [2]
Ye're jest in time for the barbecue on the island. [9]
Why, jest think--there's thous'n's and thous'n's that ain't nigh so well off. [5]
Further boiled down, this vast outpouring of malice amounts to simply this: one jest from the Tribune (one can make nothing more serious than that out of it. [5]
She had congealed the word on his lips by her scorn, and now he was his old debonair, dissipated self, with the impertinent monocle in his eye and a jest upon his tongue. [11]
But I seen the red spurtin' of his guns, en' heard his shots jest the very littlest instant before I heard the shots of the riders. [13]
If he dismounted the gun, the matter would probably remain only a jest, for such as yet Richambeau regarded it. [11]
It always happened that people who began in jest with her ended by being in earnest. [5]
They tell me that Minister Stoker is following round after Myrtle Hazard, talking religion at her jest about the same way he'd have liked to with our Susan, I calculate. [6]
And as for that letter; a Lenten jest I called it yestereve; and so it is verily! [10]
It was more than she could bear to hear him address her in jest, almost in mockery: him of all men, and at this moment for the first time--and to be thus reminded of her father! [10]
An' though your teeth have been shut tighter 'n them of all the dead men lyin' back along that trail, jest the same you told me the secret I've lived these eighteen years to hear! [13]
It is a subject of infinite jest among the habitues of the villa, who meet at table, and who are always bidding each other good-by. [4]
Now jest lay still a little. [13]
These words, though spoken half in jest, put the king into a violent passion, and he almost shrieked: "So the Persians say, that the wine has taken away my senses, do they? [10]
There stood her spinning-wheel and sewing-box; and a bright Venice mirror, which, in jest, she would call "Dame Inquisitive," showed her all that passed on the river and the Fleisch-brucke, for her house was not far from those which stood facing the Franciscan Friars. [10]
It's jest a small, thin, blue arrow --that's what it is; and if you don't look clost, you can't see it. [5]
He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, And lie and steal--all one to him-- He done his level best. [5]
And one time she stretched herself out 'n' laid jest as stiff as ef she was dead. [6]
In this way she had dealings with most of our noble families; and the young ones would call her not Hennelein, as her name was, but Henneleinlein, in jest at her foolish trick of repeating her last word. [10]
These fellers all seem to get chilly or shaky when they draw a bead on me, but one of them might jest happen to hit me. [13]
But in the secret depths of her soul the question whether her engagement to Boris was a jest or an important, binding promise tormented her. [2]
What you have said to me may have been in the way of jest, or I may have misunderstood you. [7]
Henrica did not remain in his debt, her eyes sparkled, and in the increasing pleasure of trying the power of her intellect against his, she sought to surpass every jest and repartee made by the Junker. [10]
I am generally ready enough to laugh, but what he said was so impressive and solemn, and so wonderfully earnest and startling that I could not jest over it. [10]
Catharina's happy tongue ran on: "'Twas a marvelous jest, and bravely carried out. [5]
It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics. [5]
He asked the price of the most expensive, and I told him twenty dollars, merely for a jest, sir. [9]
Then, when I presently saw that she was in better heart, I took courage, but in jest, being sure of her refusal, to plead the Magister's suit. [10]
They talked, an' presently at somethin' Lassiter said the rustler bawled out a curse, an' then he jest fell up against the bar, an' sagged there. [13]
As for them poor little creturs, she said, she believed they was rained down out o' the skies, jest as they say toads and tadpoles come. [6]
He said: "Come, play out your jest, Miss Hawkins. [5]
Tribute her fathers paid to mine-- Young prince to elder crown; But for a jest 'twixt bread and wine, They struck our banner down. [11]
The feller who owned the place was a mean, silent sort of a skunk, an' as I was leavin' I jest took a chance an' left my mark on him. [13]
I'll never git over what Greevy done to me or to Clint--jest twenty, jest twenty! [11]
He found it only too easy to sing her praises; but as he did so with growing enthusiasm Katharina hit him on the arm exclaiming, half in jest and half seriously vexed: "Oh, she is a goddess! [10]
Once only, jest one shot, that's all I want, Sinnet. [11]
And even if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e'en the grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning from the judge's lips. [5]
How many tragedies of this sort are there nightly in the metropolis, none the less tragic because they are subjects of jest in the comic papers and on the stage! [4]
He jest kind of sunk in, an' looked an' looked, an' he didn't see a livin' soul in thet saloon. [13]
He laid hold o' me, that cub did--it was like his mother and himself together; an' the years flowin' in an' peterin' out, an' him gettin' older, an' always jest the same. [11]
Why should I not satisfy your curiosity and your relish of a sharp jest? [10]
Jest, compliment, criticism --none of these things disturbed him, as a rule. [5]
The's a consid'able nice saddle 'n' bridle on a dead boss that's layin' daown there in the road 'n' I guess the' a'n't no use in lettin' on 'em spite,--so I'll jest step aout 'n' fetch 'em along. [6]
The lady Charmian need only remind him of them, and Aisopion spice the allusion with a jest. [10]
He understood human nature; he knew that a jest is often much harder to bear than a grave affront, and therefore seized this opportunity to repeat the inconsiderate joke which Amasis had, it is true, allowed himself to make in one of his merry moods. [10]
No one punished me, and yet I never suffered more severely; from that time I have never deviated from the exact truth even in jest. [10]
Old McDowells wouldn't like me to--to --bother it all, I'll jest tell the whole thing and let it go. [5]
I'd jest 'z lieves handle them creaturs as so many striped snakes. [6]
Wal, now, jest let me talk. [13]
Look up, and laugh with us--'twas all a jest! [5]
An' jest as Lassiter said, when that bunch of white steers got to movin' they was as bad as buffalo. [13]
Mecca is a jest you must pay for. [11]
Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: 'Let him do what he pleases,' she used to say of me. [2]
It spoils a jest to harp on it after one has had one's laugh. [5]
Why, I was jest praying for this meetin'. [13]
Now--was it in jest or earnest?--he even shook his finger at her. [10]
I 'll do jest as you say about that, or about anything else in all this livin' world. [6]
To my mind it was a poor sort of jest, witless and contemptible. [5]
He'd jest picked it off the floor an' was raisin' it when another thunderin' shot almost tore thet arm off--so it seemed to me. [13]
I think it is not right to jest about such things. [5]
If Clint was in the wrong I'd kill Greevy jest the same, for Greevy robbed him of all the years that was before him--only a sapling he was, an' all his growin' to do, all his branches to widen an' his roots to spread. [11]
But I said I wasn't goin' to tell you any of the tricks....Strange now, Miss Withersteen, when the stampede did come it was from natural cause-- jest a whirlin' devil of dust. [13]
An' jest lately I learned all about you. [13]
His jollity equalled his corpulence, and how merrily he used to jest with us lads! [10]
Herdegen's seat, at her left hand, was vacant; and she bid her white Brabant hound, as though in jest, to leap into it. [10]
I only wished he had n't, and had jest given her a little sass, for I've been takin' boxin'-lessons, 'n' I 've got a new way of counterin' I want to try on to somebody. [6]
Amasis, whom we have just heard in such grave discourse with Croesus, now indulged in jest and satire. [10]
Why, man, he hath no more sympathy with a jest than hath a dead corpse!--come, and we will speak further. [5]
When a man has come to make a jest of misfortune, he is lost. [4]
But now she had turned satirical; and her irony was no jest of the lips. [10]
But before he had finished he felt that his jest was unacceptable and had not come off. [2]
And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. [5]
If it was gold dust or nugget gold I'd hev reason to think, but it's new coin gold, as if it had jest come from the United States treasury. [13]
He was right glad to let us wait upon him and fell to with a will; but he made us set forth again sooner than was our pleasure, and as we fared farther the old forest rang with many a merry jest and much laughter. [10]
An' they jest froze up--thet dark set look thet makes them strange an' different to me. [13]
It was the first breakfast at which the high chair at the side of Iris had been unoccupied.--You might jest as well take away that chair,--said our landlady,--he'll never want it again. [6]
Love, the evangel, Finds the Archangel-- Is that a truth when this may be a jest? [11]
Emerson, 20, 21; familiarity with Cambridge and its college, 45; erroneous quotation from, 251, 252; jest erroneously attributed to, 400, 401. [6]
Malfalconnet would not fail to utter some biting jest when he heard that Charles must now, as it were, purchase this costly ornament of himself. [10]
It ain't jest exactly safe for me to be seen here. [13]
You kin put 'em on the docket, and I guess if anything comes along that hain't jest right for everybody, somebody can challenge a quorum and bust up the session. [9]
Though you no doubt were pleased to speak in jest when you asked that question, I feel bound to answer you distinctly that it was not Cleopatra that I meant, but King Philometor. [10]
Never mind, she did n't believe but what Gifted could make jest as good verses as any of them that they kept such a talk about. [6]

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