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Sentence Examples
She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy.
Literature is filled with companionable, often jesting and jawboning mates, an endless procession of Nicks and Noras and Mr. and Mrs. Bennetts.
In Dickon's eyes, the outlaw is hardly the laughing, jesting merry man found in Pyle's version.
Rembrandt has a quizzical, jesting expression, as well he may, in view of his wondrous hat and slashed leather jerkin, ornate with glass beads.
As and when he completes one task, immediately he contemplates the next, without any jesting on his previous tasks.
Not just jesting, but he can also realize his cunning mind that was hidden deep inside his heart.
There must be no words of doubt or complaint, or meaningless words or coarse jesting.
If Jesus had been jesting all the time, His disciples would have tried to joke with Him.
This has the benefit of being a double-meaning punchline which adds flavor to both the story of a watch and the premise that you were jesting with them.
He has heard the passers-by repeat it, some with grieved, quivering lips, others with jesting and mockery.
Good natured jokes and jesting where both parties find the conduct acceptable.
And there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
If jesting is witty and human beings are the sole creatures endowed with such wittiness, they are indeed the unique beings that laugh.
I mount the 18th tee and meet the supercilious gaze of Doc Russell, who sits on the bench smoking a cigar, jesting ribaldly with his satellites.
My hon. friend remarks on our position with regard to the Behring Sea in a somewhat jesting manner, but I think there was something substantial intended in what he said on that subject.
You must not say any words of gossip, judging and condemning others, words that disappoint God and make others stumble, words that follow worldly trend, words of falsehood, or useless jesting and joking.
The triggers for conflicts range from petty offenses, such as theft and jesting, to more serious crimes, like homicide.
We have fun in friendships when we have some jesting.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
Let each one deny himself some food, drink, sleep, needless talking and idle jesting, and look forward to holy Easter with joy and spiritual longing.
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Alcuin soon found himself on intimate terms with Charlemagne and the other men at court, where pupils and masters were known by affectionate and jesting nicknames.
Examples from Classical Literature
Some of his readers complain that they often do not know whether he is serious or jesting.
Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of newsmonger.
Here is the pardoner jesting with the merry Wife of Bath, with his finger on his lips to keep their scandal private.
This is very simple jesting, but at that time it was very effective in a town that enjoyed the high spirits of salmagundi.
Some one suggests that it must have been a merry widow hat, but that's jesting, of course.
Macquart was in a jesting mood, glowing with wild exultation.
Well, he said, jesting apart, tell me when the meeting occurred.
You are jesting, uncle, she replied, but her heart was heavy already.
We think, however, that the truth is with us, in spite of jesting Pilate.
No, no, tell me that you are only jesting with me, Annesley.
There is a time for jesting, and a time when jokes are unseasonable.
Pray dispense with this jesting, for I have no time, and really no inclination, to be the subject or promoter of mirth just now.
Her gaze was lifted to barres, who bent over her in jesting conversation.
He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting.
The master then went from easel to easel, scolding, flattering, jesting, and making, as usual, his jests more dreaded than his reprimands.
At this quintal and McCoy both laughed, and said they were jesting.
He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the Third.
She knew that this jesting choice would have serious import.
Daisy laughed gayly at recollection of the London woman's jesting.
Besides, they were very long, which indicated that he was not jesting.
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For this Little John cared not a whit, but when such folks gave jesting words to him he answered back as merrily, speech for speech.
This was only a friendly Raveloe-way of jesting with the half-crazy oddities of a miser, but it had perhaps helped to throw Silas into a more than usually excited state.
The musketeer, who knew that his lieutenant was incapable of jesting with regard to the service, obeyed without a word, although he thought the order strange.
