Lexicographical Neighbors of Jestings
Literary usage of Jestings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1829)
"... apostrophes—The lackeys—The chapel—We owe truth to the dead —The director of
the quadrilles—The plain of Virtues—The drum beats—Atrocious jestings—A ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay by Jeremy Taylor (1851)
"But St. Bernard, who is also strict in this particular, yet he adds the temper.
Though jestings be not fit for a Christian, " Interdum lamen si ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"... and jestings which are not convenient,"1 that some think this to be explicative
of the other, and that St. Paul, using the word ..."
4. Shakespeare's Pronunciation [I]: A Shakespeare Phonology, with a Rime-index by Wilhelm Viëtor (1906)
"... jestings s. PP 7. 95. 265. Rimes in [ests]. RL 1122. + weste s. RL 851.5 +
rests s. RL 1122. guests s. [gests] : breasts s. RL 1125. ..."
5. The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in One Volume by Jeremy Taylor (1859)
"... 'If any man be merry, let him sing psalms." But St. Bernard, who is also strict
in this particular, yet he adds the temper. Though jestings be not ..."
6. The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in One Volume by Jeremy Taylor (1874)
"But St. Bernard, who is also strict in this particular, yet he adds the temper.
Though jestings be not fit for a Christian," Interdum tarnen si ..."
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