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    jesting


    1. I was only jesting, Nessa


    2. You are the most beautiful lady in all the land,” he said in a jesting tone


    3. “I hadn’t expected it to be that strong really,” he defended himself cheerfully, though he instinctively knew his wife was merely jesting


    4. ,” he laughed as he gazed at me, asking his jesting question?


    5. not heard your side of the story,” she said to me with a jesting


    6. Foolish talking, and jesting, and joking, and excessive merriment, are only too common


    7. and jesting, by which grievous injury has


    8. Well, the ménage a trois we were jesting about so much all along seems to be on hand, after all! What myriad amours we three could bring into our orgies


    9. Oh, what a sexy dame she was, possibly the sexiest I had ever seen and the one I most wanted to have in all my life; as my passion for her namesake was ever on the raise, my Rathi said she wasn’t losing sleep as her rival’s hairy legs were sure to leave me cold that was if push comes to shove; but as I chanced to divine the dame’s satin legs, Rathi said she was only jesting to pour water over my raging ardency in those summer times


    10. Laeron’s alarm rang through Aesa’s head and he hastily reassured the dragon he was jesting

    11. Turning again into the jesting she saw the same


    12. Yet they urge him through the sermons they give to strive earnestly seeking after the aim he had been created for because the matter is really serious it's not jesting at all


    13. Her fever-bright eyes told him that she was only partly jesting


    14. listen since they know everything while their shortcomings makes science more the jesting of a buffoon


    15. He was only jesting


    16. Anyone else who was caught jesting was put into jail or in stocks or put to death


    17. In all souls is a somber, sovereign king and silly, jesting fool


    18. I gave her a stern look even though I knew she was just jesting, “I think you will find that I haven’t diminished any my love across all important parameters


    19. He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the Third


    20. "I'm very far from jesting, Miss Catherine," I replied

    21. It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz's ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum


    22. "Heaven keep me from jesting with that which is far dearer to me than life itself! But listen to me, Valentine, and I will tell you all about it


    23. “Do you have anything that costs sixty cents or less?” I asked her in a jesting tone, so quiet my voice barely rose above the din


    24. "What, even for me?" said the baroness, half jesting, half in earnest


    25. ‘You’re back from leave, I suppose?’ he said, and without waiting for a reply, he turned to his wife in his jesting tone: ‘Well, were a great many tears shed at Moscow at parting?’


    26. Most fortunate,’ he said to his wife, dismissing Vronsky altogether, ‘that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion,’ he went on in the same jesting tone


    27. ‘You lay too much stress on your devotion for me to value it much,’ she responded in the same jesting tone,


    28. He smiled to his wife as a man should smile on meeting his wife after only just parting from her, and greeted the princess and other acquaintances, giving to each what was due—that is to say, jesting with the ladies and dealing out friendly greetings among the men


    29. added: "He is not the man," in a jesting tone with a trembling audacity


    30. this jesting flirtation and nonsense he recklessly went so far that he did not know how to extricate himself, as unluckily he was so far from being attracted by her that he thought her positively disagreeable

    31. “Did you ever in your novel reading come across the old situation of the disinterested wife falling in love with her own husband?” on: “Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to “You know I don’t read novels,” she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went


    32. But ’twas impossible to tell if they were jesting with me or not


    33. How could I be unmarkt by the Horror I had witness’d? The most Melancholick Emotions of Sorrowful Indignation depress’d my Spirits, and ’neath my Jesting with Miss Polly, and Quoting Lines of Verse (which hath e’er been Second Nature to me) there was a Heaviness upon my Heart which would not lift


    34. Thus, when I swore upon a Pile of Bibles that the Babe was his, both his Ignorance of Female Things, and his native Masculine Vanity led him to grant me Credence (with only the smallest Amount of Jesting about his Fears that perhaps some other Swain had got me with Child afore him)


    35. Perhaps he suspected me of jesting with him, yet, being a thoroughgoing Patriarch, and being, as well, caught off guard by Flattery—that Universal Lubricant—he tumbl’d headlong into the Pit of Philosophical Disputation


    36. Nay, I am not jesting


    37. Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies


    38. ‘Oh, undoubtedly!’ said Prince Andrew, and with sudden and unnatural liveliness he began chaffing Pierre about the need to be very careful with his fifty-year-old Moscow cousins, and in the midst of these jesting remarks he rose, taking Pierre by the arm, and drew him aside


    39. Along that line of thought such a deduction is indubitable, as indubitable as the deduction Voltaire made in jest (without knowing what he was jesting at) when he saw that the Massacre of St


    40. sides addressed to the jesting soldier

    41. ‘I’m very far from jesting, Miss Catherine,’ I replied


    42. The cloud of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight


    43. "He was fond of jesting," says


    44. It was good for much irony and much jesting


    45. ” But when he found himself lost in the labyrinth of Miss Lynch, he no longer was jesting


    46. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever believed it?’ He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest in his eyes as he looked at me


    47. “Daru answered in the same jesting strain that ‘he would be satisfied to be an ordinary prisoner of war


    48. The jesting tone of the chief restored my courage


    49. "You're back from leave, I suppose?" he said, and without waiting for a reply, he turned to his wife in his jesting tone: "Well, were a great many tears shed at Moscow at parting?"


    50. Most fortunate," he said to his wife, dismissing Vronsky altogether, "that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion," he went on in the same jesting tone



























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    Synonyms for "jesting"

    jesting jocose jocular joking

    "jesting" definitions

    characterized by jokes and good humor