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Meanings of merry jest in English

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Usage of merry jest in English
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As he neared the tent, the gay song and merry jest ceased.
Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
2
Oh, the shouts of ringing laughter and the merry jest of words!
Aunt Judith: The Story of a Loving Life
3
But it's no merry jest just at first-particularlyin bad weather.
The Shuttle
4
To her it had been a merry jest, a pleasant comedy.
Beverly of Graustark
5
But it was a thought welcomed by all, as a passing merry jest.
A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
6
She was laughing as he entered at some merry jest of the Earl's.
The Black Douglas
7
It would make me a merry jest in the hall.
Beatrix of Clare
8
You know, de Brézé played a merry jest on us.
The Lady of the Rivers
9
On the other hand, it might be a merry jest.
Wanderers
10
That will be a merry jest for the betrothal party!
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
11
A good joke prolonged degenerates into teasing; and a merry jest with explanations becomes funereal.
Days Off, and Other Digressions
12
Now let us have a merry jest with him.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
13
It's no merry jest, whichever way you do it.
T. Tembarom
14
And that's no merry jest; we haven't seen a fresh egg in Berlin in six months.
L.P.M. : The End of the Great War
15
The war to them was a merry jest.
Agesilaus
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And this was a merry jest after his own heart, so that it greatly solaced him.
Algonquin Legends of New England
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