jest

• For you know laughing without a jest is as impertinent, hee! —  The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
• Once in Paris, in the opera, I used in jest emphatically the Russian word harrascho_, "good," when a Russian stranger in the next box smiled joyously, and rising, waved his glove to me. —  Memoirs
• I jest--jest got to talk to ye, that air all A slender girlish figure cuddled between Daddy Skinner's knees, and warm young lips met his. —  The Secret of the Storm Country
• I'm jest--jest pinin' for wot you thinks naught on. —  Sue, A Little Heroine
• The success of a jest is all that pardons a jester She robbed me!" —  The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem

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