120 examples of jokers in sentences

" The "joke" was out, and the two jokers were laughing as though it were a remarkably good one in their estimation; but Ford nodded his head approvingly.

He was not the man to give away the jokers of Farewell.

Of course it would be better to trip him up on this case, but if you can get hold of something else Luke has done that can be proved anyways shady it would be four aces and the joker.

The deuce?" "The joker," answered Grim.

If I say 'yes,' I risk my future on your backgammon board; if I say 'no,' my life is worth a millieme, for you will tell that Sikh you call the 'joker' to attend to me!"

Mike had informed Jellicoe of the details of his interview with Mr. Barley at the White Boar, and Jellicoe, after a momentary splutter of wrath against the practical joker, was now in a particular lighthearted mood.

He, he, he!What a joker you are, Lázar Elizárych!

[Footnote 7: This useless artillery was much ridiculed; jokers said that the notary of General Trochu was working out faithfully the "plan" of his illustrious client in these tardy fortifications.]

I would give the earnings of a year for a set of new jokes, such as might come fresh from the wit of one who never saw a mountebank, and are not worn threadbare with being rubbed against the brains of all the jokers in Europe.

There is another that hath gone up also, post haste, and with good reason as they say, for he hath made himself the but of all the jokers in Vévey on account of some foolery in the games of the Abbayea certain Jacques Colis.

A new stock-law, requiring the peasantry to shut up their unicorns during certain seasons of the year and keep them out of the crops, also protecting them from sportsmen while shedding their horns in spring, or moulting, it is said, was passed, but the English historians are such great jokers that the writer has had much difficulty in culling the facts and eliminating the persiflage from these writings.

*** People who think they have heard the cuckoo before the first of May, declares a well-known ornithologist, are usually the victims of young practical jokers.

" "Jimmy Greene, afterwards Lord Havering, whose rooms were just below mine, suffered a good deal from practical jokers.

'Commander says these are the jokers for a scrimmage,' one told Ken, as they hurriedly passed them across to the people in the boat.

These people were generally talkative, merry, and light-hearted; they delighted in fun, and were a race of jokers.

Almost alone among professional jokers, he made his merrimentrich, natural, fantastic, unbridled as it wassubserve the serious purposes of his life and writing.

Les practical jokers de ce genre n'étaient pas rares: le duc de Cumberland fit partager le même sort à une jeune fille qui servait de dame de compagnie.

THE FAREWELL THE LAST DANCE WHY HE ASKED FOR A VACATION THE EDITOR'S VALENTINE ACTING AN APACHE LOVE-SONG THE OLD-FASHIONED GIRL A RETROSPECT HARD HIT REJECTED JOKERS HER YACHTING CAP THEFT BEFORE HER

Jokers Her Yachting Cap.

RELIGION, amount of religion in the country, ii. 96; ancients not in earnest as to it, iii. 10; balancing of accounts, iv. 225; changing it, ii. 466; iii. 298; choosing one for oneself, iii. 299; College jokers its defenders, iv. 288; differences of opinion not much thought of, iv.

R117356, 11Sep53, Patricia Marion Caldecott Frere (C) The joker.

You see there are a lot of practical jokers among Clifford's friends, and their attentions haven't been confined to the hour of the wedding itself.

The text in question is a treatise on poetics illustrating how romantic situations should best be treated in Sanskrit poetrythe conduct of mature mistresses, experienced lovers, sly go-betweens, clowns or jokers being all subjected to analysis.

Roseen thanked her advisers kindly and laughed with the jokers, and went her own way.

The Engineers who constructed the gradually ascending road which, slowly mounting the valley, finally takes you over the ridge, as it were, and deposits you at a height of 3800 feet, dusty but grateful, on the plain of Engelberg, must have been practical jokers of the first water.

120 examples of  jokers  in sentences