"Jape" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Madam, "Perfidious Albion" proffers The best birthday wishes good feeling can shape! A snap of the fingers for cynical scoffers! A fig for the framers of venomous jape. May Peace and Goodwill be your lasting possession, Your proud "Valour" tempered ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. Sep. 12, 1891 • Various
... you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... stranger, and I will so far honour you." Louis bowed. "I left my purse under my pillow this morning"—a roar of laughter saluted the ancient jape—"and this ungentle fellow denies me credit. How rarely we meet with an ale-draper who is ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... must be, on wayside jape, The selfsame Power bestows The selfsame power as went to shape His Planet ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... it is no trick to Can the topic militaire, And determinedly stick to Jape and jingle light as air— To be pertly paragraphic And to jollity inclined, In an evenly seraphic ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor |
