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A wisp of jests and the laughter - Frank D. Ashburn "The Lost Legion"

Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"

With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"

Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"

Jests that swim the depths of truth - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

Rebuking half in jest - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"

Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Took it only for a jest - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"

Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"

Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Steals over our merriest jests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"

The eccentric orbit of a jest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"

A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"

Apples of jest - E. Rendall "Epitaph"

While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"


My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

The mask of a failed court jester - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"

The jesters of light and magic - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"

Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"


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