- a very good joke indeed - an excellent jest.

An excellent jest, old friend," Faldor said, laughing as hard as any of the others, "and one from which much instruction may be gained.

An excellent jest, truly, from one whose hospitality is so famous.

"An excellent jest, young one," she said.

"An excellent jest."

I believe it would be an excellent jest to keep the answer till my next letter.

--a very good joke indeed--an excellent jest.

You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have bang'd the youth into dumbness.

"An excellent jest," Tev said after he had heard the details.

A most excellent jest, Brother Feldspar!