Jokes

Examples

• At this, the charity-boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He put his arm round Letty's neck silently, and led her into the kitchen without his usual jokes and caresses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sergeant Cuff has a heart; HE doesn't cut jokes, Mr. Betteredge, with a poor hard-working girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He laughed aloud at trifles, made bad jokes and applauded them himself, and, in short, grew unmeaningly noisy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It has become one of the grim trade jokes of innovators that the one thing you can count upon is that the rulers will come to think that they are the apex of human development. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And because I make jokes sometime: and you know how dangerous it is to make jokes even in joke? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When George was more than usually pert and conceited, the Major made jokes at him, which Mrs. Osborne thought very cruel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The jokes about the table filled him with shame. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some jokes are less agreeable than others, rejoined Shelby. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr. Sedley burst out laughing (he was a coarse man, from the Stock Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The old man had listened to those jokes any time these thirty years--Dobbin himself had been fifteen years hearing them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The doctor took snuff with everybody, chatted with everybody, laughed, danced, made jokes, played whist, did everything, and was everywhere. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Come, come, said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Thou makest no jokes? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After some more jokes on the same subject, they exchanged a few short whispers with Fagin; and withdrew. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Emmy laughed: she called him a naughty man, who wanted to run away in debt, and, in fact, made some jokes suitable to the occasion and the small-beer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I care much for jokes but not in the form of address. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was a chatterer, a magpie, a maker of mischievous word-jokes, that were sometimes very clever, but which often were not. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You wouldn't sleep much, if I should tell you things I've seen,--things that he tells of, sometimes, for good jokes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He had not made any jokes with himself all day and now that he had made one he felt much better. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The old Scotchman was one of the innocent, chartered libertines of the place, with an unlimited stock of good jokes and stories, but seldom of any practical use. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I could make jokes about a flag. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They went round the Holy Places together, and Omar, now a little appeased, made sly jokes at the expense of his too magnificent followers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Merely to laugh at your jokes, I rejoined. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• One of his favorite jokes is to enter the legal department with an air of great humility and apply for a job as an inventor! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is such hard work for you, sir, who have both to cut the jokes and to laugh at them too! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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