Hereupon the dwarf laughed (the king was too confirmed a
joker to object to any one's laughing), and displayed a set of large, powerful, and very repulsive teeth.
The
joker spent the remainder of the night, after church, in the cellar of a deserted house, and Nicodemus sat on the cellar door till toward breakfast-time to make sure that the prisoner remembered that if any noise was made, some rough treatment would be the consequence.
There, his eyes happening to catch the tall joker writing up his joke, he called to him across the way:
In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand (perhaps accidentally, perhaps not) upon the joker's heart.
Joker? You're quite as stiff And prim as if You'd eaten up a poker!"
"Well, monsieur, my Menneville spitted the
joker, to the great astonishment of the spectators, and said to the cook: -- `Take this goose, my friend, it is fatter than your fowl.' That is the way, monsieur," ended the abbe, triumphantly, "in which I spend my revenues; I maintain the honor of the family, monsieur." Fouquet hung his head.
"It means, my dear friend," explained the Woggle-Bug, "that our language contains many words having a double meaning; and that to pronounce a joke that allows both meanings of a certain word, proves the
joker a person of culture and refinement, who has, moreover, a thorough command of the language."
He had always been a
joker, the only
joker in the grim and terrible company; but now as he lay there half dead from his hurts, he almost swore a solemn oath forever to forego practical joking--almost; but not quite.
The last of them proved to be their commander, the identical giant
joker already mentioned.
jolly is the gale, And a
joker is the whale, A' flourishin' his tail, -- Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
Love was the king card of trumps, the fifth ace, the
joker in a game of tenderfoot poker.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he addressed the sawdust emptiness before him as if it were a packed audience, "this is Barney Barnato, the biggest
joker of a mule ever born.
Said his brother William was the cussedest
joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write -- HE see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper.
He took a couple of strides and halted behind the unsuspecting
joker. Then he drew back and delivered a kick of such titanic vigor that it lifted Tom clear over the footlights and landed him on the heads of the front row of the Sons of Liberty.
It was a great jest of his, I recollect, to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazill in connexion with the adventures of Gil Blas; and I remember that when Gil Blas met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky
joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr.
