Quotes: J

Jack

You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby.

Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack.

Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it.

Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad.

Jack Ketch

The manor of Tyburn was formerly held by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch.

[Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office.

Jackanapes

A young upstart jackanapes.

Jackman

Christie . . . the laird's chief jackman.

Jacob

And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.

Jacobinism

Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.

Jacobinize

France was not then jacobinized.

Jaculation

Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire.

Jade

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.

She shines the first of battered jades.

A souple jade she was, and strang.

I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution.

jaded

my father's words had left me jaded and depressed

Jag

Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag.

Garments thus beset with long jags.

Jail

This jail I count the house of liberty.

[Bolts] that jail you from free life.

Jam

The ship . . . jammed in between two rocks.

Jamboree

A Calcutta-made pony cart had been standing in front of the manager's bungalow when Raja Singh started on his jamboree.

Jangle

Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree.

Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh.

The musical jangle of sleigh bells.

Jangling

From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling.

Jape

I have not been putting a jape upon you.

The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape.

Jar

When such strings jar, what hope of harmony ?

A string may jar in the best master's hand.

When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar.

For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes.

And yet his peace is but continual jar.

Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.

I love thee not a jar of the clock.

Jargon

The jargon which serves the traffickers.

The noisy jay, Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.

Jarvey

The litter at the bottom of the jarvy.

Jasperize

Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods.

Jaunce

Spurr'd, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke.

Jaundice

The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

Jaundiced

Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.

Jaunt

Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.

Jauntiness

That jauntiness of air I was once master of.

Javelin

Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm?

Jealous

I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts.

How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute!

'This doing wrong creates such doubts as these, Renders us jealous and disturbs our peace.

The people are so jealous of the clergy's ambition.

Thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

If the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife.

To both these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder.

It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous.

Jealousy

I was jealous for jealousy.

Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority.

Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy, had excellence to deserve our fondness.

Jeer

But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer.

And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves.

Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

Jehovist

The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration.

Jeopard

A people that jeoparded their lives unto the death.

jeopardize

That he should jeopardize his willful head Only for spite at me.

Jeopardous

His goodly, valiant, and jeopardous enterprise.

Jeopardy

There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.

Jeremiad

He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad.

Jerk

His jade gave him a jerk.

Lobsters . . . swim backwards by jerks or springs.

Jess

Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight.

Jest

The jests or actions of princes.

He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.

I must be sad . . . smile at no man's jests.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Then let me be your jest; I deserve it.

And given in earnest what I begged in jest.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Jester

This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.

Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.

He ambled up and down With shallow jesters.

Jesting

He will find that these are no jesting matters.

Jesu

Jesu, give the weary Calm and sweet repose.

Jesus

Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesu, do thou my soul receive.

Jet

he jets under his advanced plumes!

To jet upon a prince's right.

A dozen angry models jetted steam.

Jetty

The people . . . are of a jetty.

Jewel

Plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form.

The long gray tufts . . . are jeweled thick with dew.

Jewry

Teaching throughout all Jewry.

Jig

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme Praised and applauded.

Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.

You jig, you amble, and you lisp.

The fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.

Jigger

He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop.

Jiggish

She is never sad, and yet not jiggish.

Jihad

[Their] courage in war . . . had not, like that of the Muslim dervishes of the Sudan, or of Muslims anywhere engaged in a jehad, a religious motive and the promise of future bliss behind it.

Jingle

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly.

Job

Authors of all work, to job for the season.

And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

Jockeyship

Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship.

Where can at last his jockeyship retire?

jocose

To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary.

All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded.

Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity.

He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life.

jocular

The style is partly serious and partly jocular.

Jocund

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

Rural sports and jocund strains.

Joe Miller

It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none.

Jog

Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well-favored youth?

Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side.

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way.

So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot.

The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.

To give them by turns an invisible jog.

Joggle

The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

Join

Woe unto them that join house to house.

Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches joined.

Thy tuneful voice with numbers join.

We jointly now to join no other head.

He that joineth his virgin in matrimony.

What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

They join them penance, as they call it.

Whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?

Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.

Joinder

Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands.

Joinery

A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed.

Joint

A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand.

To tear thee joint by joint.

I read this joint effusion twice over.

A joint burden laid upon us all.

Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood.

Jointing their force 'gainst Caesar.

The fingers are jointed together for motion.

Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting.

Jointly

Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow.

Jointure

The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.

Joke

And gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Or witty joke our airy senses moves To pleasant laughter.

Inclose whole downs in walls, 't is all a joke.

He laughed, shouted, joked, and swore.

Jollification

We have had a jollification or so together.

Jollity

All now was turned to jollity and game.

He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it.

Jolly

Like a jolly troop of huntsmen.

“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

And with his jolly pipe delights the groves.

Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear.

Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.

The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions.

We want you to jolly them up a bit.

At noon we lunched at the tail of the ambulance, and gently “jollied” the doctor's topography.

I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!

Jolt

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out.

Jongleur

Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse.

Jostle

Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.

None jostle with him for the wall.

The jostle of South African nationalities and civilization.

Jot

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Neither will they bate One jot of ceremony.

Journal

Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.

Journalism

Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm.

Journey

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey.

The good man . . . is gone a long journey.

We must all have the same journey's end.

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Journeyman

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well.

Joust

For the whole army to joust and tourney.

Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament.

jovial

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets.

Be bright and jovial among your guests.

His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian.

Jowl

How the knave jowls it to the ground.

Joy

Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy.

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame.

Tears of true joy for his return.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.

For ye are our glory and joy.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.

The roofs with joy resound.

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

In whose sight all things joy.

To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.

Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.

Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.

Joyance

Some days of joyance are decreed to all.

From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow?

Joyful

My soul shall be joyful in my God.

Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.

Joyless

With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.

Youth and health and war are joyless to him.

[He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.

Joyous

Is this your joyous city?

They all as glad as birds of joyous prime.

And joyous of our conquest early won.

Joysome

This all joysome grove.

juba

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call Danced the juba in their gambling-hall.

Jubilant

While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.

Jubilee

The town was all a jubilee of feasts.

Judaize

They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.

The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.

Judas-colored

There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard.

Judge

The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.

A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.

The Lord judge between thee and me.

Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right!

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Judge not according to the appearance.

She is wise if I can judge of her.

God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be judged by him.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.

Make us a king to judge us.

Judge-made

The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been.

Judgment

I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.

She in my judgment was as fair as you.

Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.

In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.

Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment.

Judicatory

Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.

The supreme court of judicatory.

Judicature

The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor.

Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce.

Judicial

Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.

Judicious

His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing.

He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The fits o' the season.

Juggle

Be these juggling fiends no more believed.

Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries?

A juggle of state to cozen the people.

Juggler

As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye.

Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them.

Juice

An animal whose juices are unsound.

The juice of July flowers.

The juice of Egypt's grape.

Letters which Edward Digby wrote in lemon juice.

Cold water draws the juice of meat.

Juise

Up [on] pain of hanging and high juise.

Juke

The money merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head.

Julep

Honey in woods, juleps in brooks.

Jumble

Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?

Every clime and age Jumbled together.

Jument

Fitter for juments than men to feed on.

jump

Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.

A flock of geese jump down together.

To jump a body with a dangerous physic.

Our fortune lies Upon thisjump.

Juncture

In such a juncture, what can the most plausible and refined philosophy offer?

June

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Jungle

The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate.

Junior

Our first studies and junior endeavors.

His junior she, by thirty years.

Junket

How Faery Mab the junkets eat.

Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets.

A new jaunt or junket every night.

Job's children junketed and feasted together often.

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.

Junketing

All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors.

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.

Juno

Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.

Junto

The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and mighty juntos met.

Jural

By the adjective jural we shall denote that which has reference to the doctrine of rights and obligations; as by the adjective “moral” we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties.

Juridic

The body corporate of the kingdom, in juridical construction, never dies.

Jurisdiction

To live exempt From Heaven's high jurisdiction.

You wrought to be a legate; by which power You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.

Jurisprudence

The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy.

Jurist

It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.

Juror

I shall both find your lordship judge and juror.

Jury

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life.

Just

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have.

How should man be just with God?

We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright.

Just of thy word, in every thought sincere.

The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.

He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.

Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat.

When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array.

Their names alone would make a just volume.

Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves.

And having just enough, not covet more.

The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.

To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.

Just at the point of death.

A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail.

Justice

Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne.

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish of them.

This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.

Justifiable

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men.

Justification

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.

Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find Justification toward God, and peace Of conscience.

Justifier

Justifiers of themselves and hypocrites.

That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Justify

That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government.

I can not justify whom the law condemns.

By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.

Justle

The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.

We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.

Justly

Nothing can justly be despised that can not justly be blamed: where there is no choice there can be no blame.

Justness

In value the satisfaction I had in seeing it represented with all the justness and gracefulness of action.

Jut

It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.

Juxtaposition

Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.