Sentence examples for a jester for from inspiring English sources

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Marillion were still defining their sound when they recorded their first album, 1983's Script for a Jester's Tear.

After assuring us that it was extremely rare for a jester to be punished, the historian Beatrice Otto, in "Fools Are Everywhere," goes on to recount enough beheadings, banishments and autos-da-fé to give even the most benign wit a reason to think twice before teasing a king.

The Western ballet world used to deplore the addition of a Jester to "Swan Lake" as a tacky Soviet excuse for gratuitous display.

Mocking this, a jester recommended that moonlight also be prohibited so that the need for oil would be greater still.

A small castle courtyard even offers fun for toddlers, like turning a wheel to make the figure of a jester pop up.

As a jester.

"This guy's a jester".

Man is born a jester.

Historically, being a jester was a high-risk profession.

Anyway, he added, every king's court includes a jester.