Word: jestingly
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...will praise To new fledged classes "the good old days;" And Eighties and Nineties will meet to inspire The recreant present with old time fire. Here friends-old friends-will make their tryst And grasp once more dear comrade's fist. They'll laugh once more at the ancient jest; Retell the stories that stand Time's test. They'll dust off the score of forgotten games, Evoke old crews of the Charles and the Thames, Repeople the Delta, and Jarvis and Holmes With heroes of battles quite equal to Rome's. Revive U. 5 and calls on the Dean...
...study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem to us only the severest tragedy. What he wishes to get at is the comedy in Hamlet according to the Elizabethan point of view. Charles Scribner's Sons will publish the book in this country...
...readily made out. The students, eager to find out wherein they have succeeded or failed in their work, must stop to analyze the handwriting before they can get at the opinion of the instructor. So far has this gone that there is more than usual humor in the popular jest that the English instructors should furnish another key with every criticism, with explanations of the various signs,-the regular theme card is not enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked in his work by an apparently...
...From Jest to Earnest" is an absurdity after Stockton's style, though it lacks the plausibility with which that master of absurdities always clothes his impossible imaginations. A little elaboration here and there, especially of the passage that deals with the proposals, would not have been amiss...
...great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...