I used to say, Burke never once made a good joke[79].
No, Sir; I never heard Burke make a good joke in my life[598].
Twas a good joke," said I, although my faith was somewhat staggered by Phelim's explanation.
Our chief, a noble Venetian belonging to the Balbi family, said to us, "It would be a good joke to carry off those three blockheads, and to keep the pretty woman in our possession.
I detailed to them what Mohun Lall had said, and repeated what a good joke it would be to get the head and place it in some conspicuous place.
Almoste every boddy gits married, and it iz a good joke.
There iz no medicine like a good joke; it iz a silver-coated pill that frolicks and phisicks on the run.
Thare iz no stattue aginst joking, but thare ought tew be, not that I think a good joke iz criminal, but they are so scarce, they are suspicious.
But the best of all was his hunting among the Adirondack Mountains, in Michigan, and having to defend himself against the Indians; that's a good joke.
When David entered the room he saw before him a couple of happy faces; Pomuchelskopp was laughing as if the attorney had been making a good joke, and the attorney was laughing as if Pomuchelskopp had been telling an amusing story.
She showed her parson the red danger signal she had hoisted in her distress, but he seemed to look upon the whole affair as a good joke, perhaps because he was convinced that the brig was in no danger.
She would have thought the whole affair a good joke if the butterfly had not been her sister's son, and the flower Louisa Hawermann.
Although not especially fond of sewing, the girls looked upon this episode as a good joke, and fell to work at their bits of cloth.
Patty would have supposed that this would greatly humiliate the proud and sensitive boy, but, to her surprise, Roger treated the affair as a good joke.
Mr. Phelps, rather amused at what he considered a good joke, and thinking that it must be a case of mistaken identity somehow.
I asked him this morning if it wouldn't be a good joke to put some soft soap on the front step, so the letter-carrier would slip up and spill hisself, and Pa said it would be elegant.
A corpse got a good joke on the people of Quebec the other day.
Pa said it would be a good joke for me not to call him Pa, but to act as though I was his younger brother, and we would have a real nice time.
Then there must have been a good joke somewhere," Mr. Crow said.
And if you don't say it's a good joke, I'll never wear a checkered red coat again.
You promised that if we didn't say it was a good joke you'd never wear a checkered red coat again.
It's a good joke on you,' he says, 'for the little woman got it on the third trial.
I cried, for my father stopped in the middle of his recital to laugh, as though he were telling a good joke.
At this he laughed as though he had made a good joke.
Instead of yielding to anger he burst into a great laugh, as though he had heard a good joke.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good joke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
