“Now let the japer, and the smiler with his knife, do me what harm they may.”

“It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery.”

“Anyway, amid the japery, the joshing and the Latin sobriquets, Boris posited a very interesting theory.”

“The book's best jokes come at the expense of the fiction students, but it's not all inside-baseball japery.”

“Dost thou tell us a jape, or the truth?”

“Ron suspected that she knew that he and Alan would be off for schoolboy japes and wizard pranks at any opportunity.”