One of his jests on such occasions was, 'That none could say he wanted issue, for he had no less than nine on his back.
Jests of that kind were all very well in the theatre, but they were best confined to the stage.
It was a novel sensation to see the man who had heretofore been like clay in the moulder's hands now daring to flout her openly and to hold up her wounded pride as a target for the jests of those present.
But Otto would not be convinced and attached himself to her with a zeal, which brought on both many pointed jests on the part of the assembled revellers.
Wilde was a humourist and a humanist before everything; and his wittiest jests have neither the relentlessness nor the keenness characterising those of the clever American artist.
The idea that such jests and such smiles could exist, however unseen and unheard, would have been intolerable to him.
He had a power, it is true, and that power consisted in his willingness to weary and disgust his antagonist and his audience (friends as well as foes) by low jests and scandalous personalities.
Knowest thou not that thou and thy name are jests upon the lips of every brave yeoman?
Quoth the Bishop, "Mayhap that was what I meant to say, Sir Richard; but this I will say, that I saw thee just now laugh at the scurrilous jests of these fellows.
I give up composing for a people who crowd to a farce, shout applause at the commonplace jests of the hero of a modern comedy, and dissolve in tears at a sensation drama from a woman's pen.
Are you not ashamed," pouted Angelika, "to go on with your silly jests when we are all so anxious?
You may laugh at me as much as you please, but have the goodness, Moritz, to spare your jests as far as Fraeulein Hartwich is concerned; and you too, friend Herbert.
Next to these brief arguments are familiar jests, gravely uttered, with scarcely any perceptible change in the expression of the lips, jests that Englishmen have been fond of in all times.
Neither have these men any aptitude for light repartee; they do not play, they kill; their jests fell the adversary to the ground.
Pray, good sir, no more of your jests; for they are the bluntest jests that ever I knew.
But, seriously, now, if you pass any more of your jests upon me, I shall grow angry.
He had here for some time listened to the jests of the maidens and their talkative admiration of the king's handsome presence and his splendour, and of all the pomp they beheld.
Thus jested the Grand Master; but his jests had lost their influence on the harassed mind of the Marquis, and, notwithstanding his attempts to seem gay, his gloom communicated itself to the Templar.
I understood their speech, but beyond ribald jests at our expense they said nothing.
For I went to my canoes, and there, perched bird-wise on my cargo, and flinging jests and laughter at Pierre and the men, sat Singing Arrow.
No man can mistake them for the jests of him that never felt a wound; rather, we may see how the old scars had once bled and sometimes burned still, though there was no reason why a man should die of them.
To be sure the refinement in the jests is often conspicuously absent.
He heard John Heywood's jests and biting epigrams with a melancholy smile, and a cloud was on his brow.
How bewitchingly does the Duchess of Richmond, that fair and voluptuous woman, laugh at the king's merry jests and double entendres!
In other villages, on the contrary, the peasants gathered angrily around me, reviled me as a spy and an intruding foreigner, and drove me with stones and rough jests from among them, threatening that I should not escape so easily another time.
Father follows his favorite miss into the hall, cloaks her with gallant care, and through the door I hear him playfully firing off parting jests at her as she drives away.
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