As it can be "no joke" to them, perhaps it should be no joke to us: though, on reflection, we are not so very like.

At first you kept on wondering what the joke was, till you saw it was only a habit Sarah had.

"It was no tiger at all—that was the joke of the thing," said the major.

Then he seemed to consider it best to treat my natural disappointment as a joke.

"Sit it, you mean," said young Bartlett, laughing with the others at his own joke.

The Little Doctor was struggling with the lump in her throat that he should try to joke about it.

"I—I thought you did it just for a joke," said the Little Doctor, weakly.

Even if she only did it for a joke, I think Marian would rather that you had not read them.

There was a joke in The Twiddley Bits that went down everywhere.

The joke was over before the audience had time to realise it was a joke.