The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and SayingsLemon, Mark
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The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
Lemon, Mark
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; English wit and humor
Charles, Duke of Norfolk, 271
Charles II. and Milton, 192
Chartist not a Leveller, A, 334
Chatham, Lord, 263
Cheap at the Money, 209
Cheap Cure, A, 17
Cheap Watch, A, 168
Check to the King, 22
Cheese and Dessert, 21
Chemical Oddity, 322
Chesterfield, Lord, 37
Chin-Surveying, 280
Choice of Evils, A, 334
Choice Spirits, 180
Church in the Way, The, 246
City Glutton, 358
City Love, 36
City Varnish, A, 61
Claim on the Country, A, 249
Classical Wit, 333
Claw and Claw, 54
Clear Case, A, 122
Clear the Court, 118
Clearing Emigrants, 272
Clerical Wit, 95
Clever Dog, A, 47
Climax, A, 19, 341
Clonmel, Lord, 172
Close Escape, A, 187
Close Translation, A, 317
Closer, A, 313
Coat-of-Arms, A, 211
Cockney Epigram, A, 36
Cold Comfort, 132
"Cold" Compliment, A, 73
Coleridge and Thelwall, 275
College Bell! The, 109
Collins, The late Mr., 24
Colonial Breweries, 313
Colorable Excuse, A, 179
Colorable Resemblance, A, 145
Come of Age, 9
Comedian and a Lawyer, A, 190
Common Case, A, 64
Common Politeness, 195
Common Want, A, 219
Comparative Virtue, 357
Comparison, A, 152, 234, 273
Comparisons are Odious, 2
Complimentary, 4, 362
Compliment, Elegant, 32
Compliment Ill-received, A, 78
Computation, 22
Conceited, but not Seated, 201
Con-cider-ate, 139
Concurrent Events, 134
Conditional Agreement, 315
Confidence, 103, 120
Confidence--taken from the French, 193
Confirmed Invalid, A, 1
Congratulation to One who Curled His Hair, 85
Conjugal Caution, 8
Conjugal Conclusion, A, 282
Connoisseur, The, 7
Connubial Compliment, A, 365
Conservative Logic, 300
Considerable Latitude, 44
Considerate Mayor, A, 292
Considerate Son, A, 89
Consistency, 179
Constancy, 245
Constitutional Pun, A, 4
Contraband Scotchman, 67
Convenient Theory, A, 358
Convert, A, 4
Cooke's Explanation of the Family Plate, 158
Cooking his Goose, 315
Cool as a Cucumber, 356
Cool Hand, A, 85
Cool Proposition, A, 299
Cool Retort, 208
Corporation Politeness, 219
Corruptly Incorruptible, 172
Couleur de Rose, 58
Coulson, Sir Thomas, 232
Credit, 269
Critical Politeness, 30
Criticising a Statue, 152
Critics, 60
Cromwell, 228
Cruel Case, A, 229
Cruel Suggestion, 68
Cup and Saucer, 200
Cut and Come Again, 51
Cut Direct, The, 124
Cut Infernal, The, 103
Cutting, 360
Cutting an Acquaintance, 253
Cutting his Coat, 57
Cutting off the Supplies, 310
Cutting on both Sides, 69
DAMPED ARDOR, 240
Dancing Prelates, The, 226
Dangerous Generalization, A, 243
Dead Language, 110
Deadly Weapon, A, 288
Dear Bargain, A, 323
Dear Speaker, A, 319
Death and Dr. Bolus, 335
Death-bed Forgiveness, 323
Debt Paid, The, 77
Debtor and Creditor, 126
Decanting Extraordinary, 168
Defining a Creed, 335
Degeneracy, 129
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