10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JESTEE»
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jestee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
jestee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Counter-figures: An Essay on Anti-metaphoric Resistance. ...
Obviously because she has run out of jest as soon as she lets go of the jestee's
hand and leaves the company, as she just does: “[...] now I let go your hand, I am
barren.” The jestress runs out of jest as soon as she lets go of the “foole in hand”,
...
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Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations ...
JESTEE. CONDEMNED. TO. DEATH. SMITH. ONE of the kings of Scanderoon, A
Royal Jester, Had in his train a gross buffoon, Who used to pester The Court with
tricks inopportune, Venting on the highest folks his Scurvy pleasantries and ...
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Heterogeneity in Word-formation Patterns: A Corpus-based ...
Examples of generalizations of contexts of use: visitee, examinee, promisee27 –
Examples of humorous adaptations of a “legal role relationship”: lovee, jestee,
rubbee – Occurrence of non-passive words: resignee (2) – 'sb. who resigns from
a ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... gag, jape, quip, waggery, wisecrack, witticism, ||yak rel banter, chaff, jolly;
derision, ridicule, twit 2 syn FUN 1, game, joke, play, sport con gravity,
seriousness, soberness ant earnest 3 syn LAUGHINGSTOCK, butt, derision,
jestee, joke, mock, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and ...
JESTEE 401 JESTER jest in popular parlance, the term jokebook replaced
jestbook. JESTEE A word first used by Laurence Sterne, the English novelist, in
Tristram Shandy for the butt of a jest. Sterne knew that in jocularity as in charity, it
is ...
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The Tuesday Club: a shorter edition of The history of the ...
This makes it necessary, that in passing Joke or Jest, the quality of the Jester and
the quality and temper of the Jested, or to speake in the manner of our Learned
Lawyers, the Jestor and Jestee, must always be maturely weighed and ...
Alexander Hamilton, Robert Micklus, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), 1995
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The Witnesses to Christianity, Or, The Certainty of Our ...
536. that the mother of harlots, "that one City Bahylm, was even drunk with the
BLOZlD o the Saints, and' wit/'the BLOMD of the AR'ITKS of Jestee. A Sea. of
BLOUD flowed from their veins, to cover the ' Earth with the knowledge of the '
lorY of ...
8
The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated
ctSte 'sss comparisqflgo, at*e*_"'_ A' jestee, to the mctor' and arm-gage: 1- is, and
just allusion. 0;ng he one mayzforget the, t the-Other will=not only remember a
but! nal, when Lid-drye es." 'or gffiþv-jizlndrtd safflsþtinst may be' likenedto si W ...
... it is melancholy to consider that we seldom laugh unless at another-'s expence'
, but is a of mine unwarily excited merriment wherein the jestee Was not forward
to join, it would wound his seelings with less bitterness than mine, the reflection, ...
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Vindiciae Foederis: Or, A Treatise of the Covenant of God ...
... appointed, and have sent him to some particular constituted vi- 5 sible Church,
upon his covenant to have been received, and not l hand over head, upon his
bare profession that he heleev'dthat jestee ebrii? it the Sann' afGod, baptized him
.
Thomas Blake, Samuel Shaw, Anthony Burgess, 1658
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JESTEE»
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Woman's missing dog found 2 years later locked in abandoned home
JESTEE WAS FOUND LOCKED IN AN ABANDONED HOME EATING THROUGH SHEETROCK TRYING TO ESCAPE. LAUREN BAITS, WHO ... «KPRC Houston, May 15»
Trapper continues to hunt dog-killing gator in Sunrise
UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN IT SNATCHED THE RESCUE DOG JESTEE. NOW TRAPPERSERS HOPING TO CATCH THE BIG REPTILE ... «Local 10, Jan 15»
Why the Great British Bake Off needs a sprinkling of smut
... innuendo: it's both subversive and deniable: the double meaning, the code cementing the conspiracy of laughter between jester and jestee, ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
