15 Metaphors for jest

1 gives the general arrangement of a station, where J is an inductor set in motion through a winch, K, and a pair of friction rollers; W, a polarized call; U, an ordinary two-direction commutator; B, a lightning protector; and L and T, the two terminals of the apparatus, one of them connecting with the line and the other with the earth.

J was a jug, So pretty and white, With fresh water in it At morning and night.

J j THE JAY. J is a Jay, With his blue and white coat, With a crest on his head, And a ring round his throat.

M is the cylinder, R the connecting rod, C C the eccentrics by which the slide valve is moved; J J is the steam pipe by which the steam is conducted from the steam dome of the boiler to the cylinder.

University jests are his universal discourse, and his news the demeanour of the proctors.

"Yet hearts refin'd their sadden'd tint retain, "The sigh is pleasure, and the jest is pain.

Ah, it's a rum world as we all lives in, and in nothink much rummer than in the wunderfool power of a bewtifool face, ah, and as sumbody says, for Wheel or for Wo, jest as it appens, more's the pitty.

His jests are either old fled proverbs, or lean-starved hackney apophthegms, or poor verbal quips, outworn by serving-men, tapsters, and milkmaids, even laid aside by balladers.

The jest became a reality in the siege of Cincinnati.

" "I meant no harm to thee," said Sir Richard, "but a merry jest is a merry jest, and I may truly say I would have laughed at it had it been against mine own self.

The jest was indeed a secret to all but himself; but habitual confidence in his own discernment hindered him from suspecting any weakness or mistake.

He lost three pall-bearers their livelyhood, Only with simp'ring at his lively mood: Provided that they fresh and neat came, All jests were fish that to his net came.

His jests were the boldest and freest; they made even the empress blush, and sent her blood hot and bounding through her veins.

Jest then an old woman came flyin' out the back-door, callin', 'Kitty!

His jests at Bensington became malignant libels....

15 Metaphors for  jest