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
Law and the Scottish Thane, 342
Lawyer's House, 149
Lawyer's Opinion of Law, A, 99
Leaving His Verdict, 100
Leg Wit, 182
Legal Adulteration, 147
Legal Extravagance, 249
L'Envoy, 368
Letter C, The, 248
Letter H, The, 136, 199
Letter Wanting, A, 138
Liberal Gift, 135
Licensed to Kill, 160
Lie for Lie, 198
Light Bread, 80
Light-headed, 20
Light Joke, A, 250
Light Study, A, 19
Light Subject, The, 4
Lincoln's-Inn Dinners, 207
Lines to O'Keefe, 330
Lingual Infection, 214
Liquid Remedy for Baldness, 196
Liston's Dream, 148
Literal Joke, A, 125
Literary Pastime, 354
Literary Rendering, A, 284
Little to Give, 171
Long Ago, 348
Long Bill, A, 145
Long Illness, A, 279
Long Residence, A, 239
Long Story, 161
Look-A-head, 178
Look in his Face, 12
Losing an I, 113
Lost and Found, 276
Love, 220
Love and Hymen, 148
Love of the Sea, 157
Love Songs, by Dean Swift, 32
Lusus Naturae, A, 189
Luxurious Smoking, 173
Lying, 208
Lying Consistently, 20
MAC READY TO CALL, 178
Mad Quakers, 138
Maids and Wives, 43
Majesty of Mud, The, 61
Making a Clearance, 143
Making Free, 263
Making Free with the Waist, 321
Making It Up, 52
Making Progress, 232
Malone, Sir Anthony, 184
Man and a Brother, A, 337
Man of Letters, A, 26
Man of Metal, A, 306
Man-traps, 179
Man Without a Rival, 198
Mark of Respect, A, 100
Marriage, 82, 211
Matrimony, 349
Matter in His Madness, 8
Maule-practice, 249
Measure for Measure, 64, 146
Measure of a Brain, The, 93
Measuring his Distance, 46
Mechanical Surgeon, A, 169
Medical Opinion, A, 158
Medicine must be of Use, The, 62
Melo-dramatic Hit, 279
Men of Letters, 205
Men of Weight, 322
Merry Thought, A, 346
Michaelmas Meeting, A, 331
Milesian Advice, 77
Military Axiom, A, 276
Military Eloquence, 310
Milton on Woman, 53
Mind your Points, 242
Minding his Business, 107
Minding his Cue, 203
Miser's Charity, 53
Mistake, A, 191
Mistaken Identity, 13
Model Philanthropist, A, 251
Modern Acting, 185
Modern Sculptor, A, 188
Modest, 46
Modest Merit, 75
Modest Request, 25
Money-Borrower Deceived, The, 306
Money-Lender, A, 217
Money Returned, 21
Money's Worth, 188
Money's Worth, 233, 262
Monster, A, 215
Moral Equality of Man, 93
More Honored in the Breach, 238
Mot of Defoe, 54
Motherly Remark, 233
Much Alike, 250
Multiplying One, 366
Musical Blow-up, A, 174
Musical Taste, 214
Mystery Cleared Up, A, 237
NAMELESS MAN, A, 260
Napoleon's Statue at Boulogne, 128
Nat Lee and Sir Roger L'Estrange, 43
National Prejudice, 247
Native Wit, 35
Natural, 300
Natural Antipathy, 228
Natural Grief, 186
Natural Transmutation, 60
Nature and Art, 273
Naval Oratory, 117
Neat Quotation, A, 65
Neat Suggestion, A, 315
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