What banter consists of

Usage examples of jests.

The hours passed by in jests and merriment, and when we sat down to supper I made the champagne corks fly to such an extent that the girls began to get rather gay.

Nevertheless, De la Haye, who was bursting with curiosity, could not refrain from breaking some jests on me.

He did not admire fine wits, good jests or criticism, because it easily turns to slander, and he would laugh at the folly of men reading newspapers which, in his opinion, always lied and constantly repeated the same things.

Wit, cheerfulness, decent manners, attended our delightful party, and did not expel the gaiety and the merry jests with which a Frenchman knows how to season every conversation.

I began to crack jokes, and my jests drew peals of laughter from Esther.

A quick cross-fire of greetings and questions and rough West Saxon jests flew from rank to rank, or were bandied about betwixt the marching archers and the gazing crowd.

As chance placed me next to my charmer at table, my spirits rose, and my numerous jests and stories put everybody in a good temper.

Madame Zeroli had spoken enthusiastically about me, and had taken the jests of the two other ladies in good part, boasting that she could keep me at Aix as long as she remained there herself.

I shrugged my shoulders, and his sister, not understanding his jests, took no notice of them.

The serious character of a first meeting did not prevent the utterance of witty jests, for in that respect M.

Sallies of wit, jests, good stories and enjoyment, were the soul of the banquet.

She talked about the Pacienza, and when I told her that I kept the Corticelli, and of the hard conditions to which I was obliged to submit, she exclaimed with astonishment, and amused me by her jests on the subject.

I have been informed that your laughter and your jests are of such a nature as to be offensive to people of morality.

How else could she withstand the cruel jests and gossip at her expense?

But then, unless you are after all, in tune with my jests, almost as old as I am, you have never seen even one, have you?