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They “roam over the village streets, shocking the ear with their vulgar jestings, and voluptuous songs, or opening their kitchens to the reception of the neighbouring blacks, they pass the evening in gambling, dancing, drinking, and the most obscene conversation, kept up until the night is far spent, then crown the scene with indiscriminate debauchery.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.

The Passionate Pilgrim 2004

It was Frederick's fault, as I have heard it said, that the King was not his most steadfast ally and friend, as much as sovereigns can be towards each other; but the jestings of Frederick had stung him, and made him conclude the treaty of Versailles.

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Complete Mme. Du Hausset

It was Frederick's fault, as I have heard it said, that the King was not his most steadfast ally and friend, as much as sovereigns can be towards each other; but the jestings of Frederick had stung him, and made him conclude the treaty of Versailles.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

It was Frederick's fault, as I have heard it said, that the King was not his most steadfast ally and friend, as much as sovereigns can be towards each other; but the jestings of Frederick had stung him, and made him conclude the treaty of Versailles.

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 2 Mme. Du Hausset

I am very much afraid that your Allegories, particularly in the present state of the wardrobe, will furnish occasion for many ambiguities and jestings.

Chapter VI. Book III 1917

Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.

The Passionate Pilgrim, 7 1914

[Page ix] and the more thorough must be their enjoyment in her racy humour - a humour which makes everything she touches delightful, but which never degenerates into caricature nor into "jestings which are not convenient."

Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

Note the idle bywords, the slang phrases, the jestings, the gay, giddy, foolish expressions, the low and impure speech, which is all foreign to the kingdom of grace.

The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897

Little O'Grady, an easygoing bachelor, everybody's friend, and too much the champion of the whole gentler sex to set any one of its members apart from all the rest, might indulge in such jestings about his own life and his own work as he saw fit.

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893