Lexicographical Neighbors of Jestbooks
Literary usage of Jestbooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein (1906)
"... extant in several editions, which was reprinted by Hazlitt in Old English
jestbooks, 1864, Vol. III. There are also Mother Bunch's Closet newly broke ..."
2. Books and Things by Philip Littell (1919)
"He undid several parcels and showed Maria more jestbooks than she had supposed
the world could contain. "Joe has got to study these," he went on. ..."
3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Classical by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... the inspiration of similar jestbooks under new names. The epitome of all human
wisdom is represented as holding a long controversy with a self-confessed ..."
4. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"... tall tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, but excluding
juvenile fiction, jestbooks, Indian captivity narratives, periodicals, ..."
5. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein (1906)
"... extant in several editions, which was reprinted by Hazlitt in Old English
jestbooks, 1864, Vol. III. There are also Mother Bunch's Closet newly broke ..."
6. Books and Things by Philip Littell (1919)
"He undid several parcels and showed Maria more jestbooks than she had supposed
the world could contain. "Joe has got to study these," he went on. ..."
7. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Classical by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... the inspiration of similar jestbooks under new names. The epitome of all human
wisdom is represented as holding a long controversy with a self-confessed ..."
8. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"... tall tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, but excluding
juvenile fiction, jestbooks, Indian captivity narratives, periodicals, ..."
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