It is an oldjest that there is not a word in the language that conveys so little endearment as the word "dear.
Riccabocca understood by a priest that the Italian's heart smote him for his irreverent jest on the cloth.
For there was hunderds and hunderds of not only spectably drest Gents, but also of reel-looking Ladys, a skatin away like fun, and a larfing away and injying theirselves jest as if it had bin a nice Summer's day.
You see, I ain't quite so limber as what I used to be when I was your age or jest a little older.
Now you jesthop along, both of you, and enjoy yourselves.
I didn’t know what was goin’ to happen when I and Bunk heard you chawin’ and come out where we could see ye standin’ there holdin’ your gun jest as if you meant to use it any minute!
Then he could call their attention to it and make b’lieve he’d jest seen it.
Well, that would be a master long distance to travel jest for a talk.
They’ve got a new minister, a young feller that ain’t married, and every single girl and widder and old maid in town is jest flockin’ to hear him.
P’r’aps he had the handkerchief in his pocket and jest flung it on the bush when they wasn’t lookin’.
Oh, I guess he wa’n’t very sick; he jest wanted to lay in bed, that was all.
Now I’ve kinder got an idee that the new feller really comes from Texas, jest as he says he does.
Jest took a short stick in his hand and went out for a solithary walk; by himself, poor fellow, down by the Shuire.
Then he could hold in no longer: "Sergeant, jest one question more, and then I'll keep quiet.
But jest what you might expect from these Abolition satraps, who're throttlin' our liberties.
But we wuz jest starved for a drink o' fresh milk.
As I always like to be with the winnin' side, I guess I'll jest jine 'em.
Transplantin's best in wet weather, and the best time to ketch a feller's jest when he's bin jilted.
We have a hundred thousand drilled and armed men here in the State of Injianny, jest waitin' the word, to throw off the shackles of tyranny and destroy the tyrants.
Jest up here to 'tend to some bizness," he answered briefly, and turned away as if to close the conversation.
We want him, an' we're jest 'bout determined not tuh go back without the skunk.
I's jest a-gittin' ready tuh vamoose outen heah right smart now.
His name it am Samuel Parker White, an' if so be yuh ebber wants tuh send me one ob dat pictur', jestdrap it dar.
An' so, when I received it, why, I jest come out here to meditate.
Jest lookin' at a box of 'em'll make me low-sperited.
Tell the truth, I miss them little devils she used to print on the butter pads she set at my plate ez a warnin' to me--seem to me I miss them jest about ez much ez I miss her.
But of co'se I ca'culated to git you to fetch it out jest for me to look at, after I'd selected his present.
When I'm obligated to swaller one of 'em, I jest take a swig o' good spring water and repeat a po'tion of Scripture and commit myself unto the Lord.
Jest send word when the second bell starts a-ringin' thet I ain't well.
Ef that one hadn't 'a' give me such a setback in my early youth I'd git her this, jest to please her.
No matter what the past has been--jest watch me now and see How jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
But others tumble to my racket and suspicion me, When jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
Most all the time the whole year round there ain't no flies on me, But jest 'fore election I'm as good as I can be!
These unintentioned ruffians by their dirty jest have clothed me to my office.
And the jest will be still the better if it be true, as judicious persons have assured me, that one half of this money will be real, and the other half altogether imaginary.
Well, we jest nachally got t' give him a name," said Shorty Palmer.
I am sure it was jest like Jeanie to act as she did; she had all her life looked more to the comforts of others than to her ain.
From hour to hour homely jest and rough witticism enliven the day's tedium, and testify to the unfailing good temper and love of fair play of London crowds.
Considering that the Baron was yet a young man, at the most but three years older than Beethoven, the somewhat bitter remark which follows the jest appears natural enough.
That horse sure 'nough did love me and that's jest all what it is to that.
Why, Charlie Petty, Marse's son, wore home made clothes at home jest as us did.
We took Emma, and she ain't jest 'zactly right; but she ain't no bother to us.
All of dem is done dead now; jest me, my wife and my sister's daughter, Emma, who is grown now.
I jest calls myself any whars twixt seventy-five and a hundred.
You see I beenjest uh leetle gal; I can't lie and say I remember.
He wuk so haa'd some time dat Maussa jest got to stop him, or he kill heself.
Stories of humour do not tell well in books; and what made impression on the friends who heard a jest will seldom much delight the distant acquaintance or sullen critic who reads it.
Mr. Johnson liked a frolic or a jest well enough, though he had strange serious rules about it too: and very angry was he if anybody offered to be merry when he was disposed to be grave.
And when they can Fine me for negligence, jest like some rate-paying scrub-- Oh!
And as before there was laughter and gay talk and teasing, affectionate jest and prophecy mingled with the toasting.
If you still believe that I am guilty of such atrocious bad feeling as to jestwith you on a subject of such a nature, I beg that you will yourself ask him.
It happened to be the old answer of his childhood, when Bukta in jest called him the little General Sahib.
Jest lasts long enough to start a fuss, an' then lights aout to make new trouble.
I was older than thou art; but even then I forgot, and now the thing is but a jest to be talked of" Adam drew one big breath and broke down utterly in my arms.
Faiz Ullah unbent so far as to jest with the policemen, and Scott turned purple with shame because Hawkins, already in the saddle, roared.
Another man whose smile and jest Disclose a nature of the best-- What keeps his heart and spirit up?
Or a jest that's not hoary with age; But there never is one in American jokes Or on the American stage.
Ballade of a Hardy Annual Many a jest that refuses to die Bobs up again as the seasons appear; Deathless it hits us again in the eye-- Changeless and dull as the calendar year.
