facetiae

• “Asperae facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt, a bitter jest leaves”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Peace and meditation - Negotiation meetings, May 1968 - Anecdotes, facetiae, satires, etc.”

  Archive 2006-03-01

• ““The New Yorker, the weekly magazine that started as “a hectic book of gossip, cartoons and facetiae,” as Louis Menand once wrote, and has evolved into a citadel of narrative nonfiction and investigative reporting, will publish its entire 80-year archives on searchable computer discs this fall.””

  New Web Site, National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) « ResourceShelf

• “Mr Moffat, grieved in his soul, was becoming inextricably bewildered by such facetiae as these, when an egg — and it may be feared not a fresh egg — flung with unerring precision, struck him on the open part of his well-plaited shirt, and reduced him to speechless despair.”

  Doctor Thorne

• “I in vain for a time expected the bad-masti (as the Persians call it,) the horse play, and the gross facetiae, which generally accompany southern and eastern tipsiness.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “Booksellers who deal in such wares often put them in catalogues under the head of _facetiae_, thus making a vile use of what should be characteristic only of books of wit or humor.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “_Ally -- ally_," answered Brammel with a knowing leer, attempting a little _facetiae_ in French.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843

• “Verum ingenium ejus haud absurdum; posse versus facere, jocum movere, sermone uti vel modesto vel molli vel procaci; prorsus multae facetiae multusque lepos inerat.”

  C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

• “I shall be able to cast a superior eye over it and then shatter it with a few facetiae.”

  Death in Ecstasy

• “If Panty was not the authoress of these inane facetiae, who was?”

  Final Curtain

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