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Meanings of ribald jests in English

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Usage of ribald jests in English
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Now his tormentors burst forth afresh with ribald jests and shouts of laughter.
The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy
2
I understood their speech, but beyond ribald jests at our expense they said nothing.
Montlivet
3
All this while the impatience of the throng outside has found vent in ribald jests.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
4
The long, low-ceilinged room was dim with tobacco smoke, noisy with ribald jests and laughter.
In Friendship's Guise
5
I hear the same oaths and blasphemies, the same ribald jests and ungodly talk, as of old.
The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London
6
Their bodies, young and old, were stripped naked, and left, objects of the ribald jests of their murderers.
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
7
A few students, smoking clean clay pipes, who were watching them as they turned round, greeted them with ribald jests.
Theresa Raquin
8
Men and women called out parting ribald jests and then left to return to the feast, which would last far into the night.
Bones of the Dragon
9
Colonel Thomas W. Higginson said that at a dinner at Beaufort, S. C., where wine flowed freely and ribald jests were bandied, Dr.
Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power
10
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson said that at a dinner at Beaufort, S. C., where wine flowed freely and ribald jests were bandied, Dr.
Pushing to the Front
11
From this he returned again to the memory of the deliberate purpose of that day-tothe ribald jests, the coarse profanities, the brutal oaths.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
12
Ribald jests, drunken laughter and obscene songs were kept up the whole night through.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
13
"I trow she did," he answered, "but think you that the ribald jests of mortal men can touch one of the angels of God?
A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
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Ribald jests across language varieties
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