Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faults were pointed out in a simple, straightforward way, we would accept the criticism gladly and would try to avoid such mistakes in future work, instead of feeling that he is the butt of the critic's jest. ENGLISH...
...have spoken aught in jest, still let it be remembered that the light words from the cap and bells sometimes cover serious truths...
That takes the themes we jest with...
...little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part with it at all at all, sor. Mebbe it was yourn, sor. With tears in me eyes, I wants...
...ganerous now. Onct, sor, I found a table drawer open just wide enough fer the loike o' me ter see in, and in there, sor, was a five dollar bill, sor. I knowed that it wus put there fer me ter see, sor, and so I tuk it, sor, jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That's all, sor, and it's very welcome that...