Use "jesting" in a sentence

1. I was only jesting, Nessa

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

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

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

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

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

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7. and jesting, by which grievous injury has

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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15. He was only jesting

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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?’

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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)

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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

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36. Nay, I am not jesting

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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

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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

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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

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40. sides addressed to the jesting soldier

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

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

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43. "He was fond of jesting," says

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44. It was good for much irony and much jesting

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

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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

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

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48. The jesting tone of the chief restored my courage

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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?"

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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

51. "You lay too much stress on your devotion for me to value it much," she responded in the same jesting tone, involuntarily listening to the sound of Vronsky's steps behind them

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52. They stopped to look at her, laughing, and began jesting with unbridled licentiousness

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53. There was not a trace of humor or jesting in her face now, though, in old days, fun and gayety never deserted her even at her most “earnest” moments

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54. Blanche—the latter smiling, modestly jesting, and, in short, making herself so agreeable to the Grandmother that in the end the old lady relented towards her

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55. "What? You suppose me to be jesting? I have said that I am going, and I AM going

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56. Her usually thoughtful, pale face, which all this while had been so little in harmony with the jests and laughter which she had seemed to put on for the occasion, was now evidently agitated by new feelings, though she tried to conceal the fact and to look as though she were as ready as ever for jesting and irony

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57. And after all, how disgraceful this passion of our great intellects for jesting in a superior way really is! The great European philosopher, the great man of science, the inventor, the martyr—all these who labour and are heavy laden, are to the great Russian genius no more than so many cooks in his kitchen

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58. Then, jesting at the "happy couple," with a shade of contempt and superciliousness she went away as well satisfied as before

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59. I am, perhaps, jesting against the grain

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60. "Take her straight to the Tsar!" said the jesting lackey

61. On his left squatted an officer with a red, perspiring face, who was laughing and jesting in a constrained way

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62. One even, probably Melnikoff, remarked, in a jesting way:—

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63. Before dinner he would lie down in the woods and sleep; then, at dinner, he made merry, jesting with his aunts; then went out riding or rowing

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64. Peter Gerasimovich was jesting with the Jewish clerk, and both of them burst out laughing

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65. "While he is in a lighted car, sitting on a plush seat, jesting and drinking, I stand here in the mud, rain and wind, crying," she thought

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66. One of her present comrades, jesting, said of her that she had given herself up to the sport of charity

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67. Some were smoking, laughing, and jesting, some cracking seeds and spitting out the shells

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68. destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!”

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69. “Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously

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70. “Stop this jesting,” he said

71. “I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on

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72. “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

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73. “Well done, DIPLOMAT!” he said in his most kindly jesting tone as he looked at me with his small bright eyes

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74. This I feigned to say in a gay and jesting manner, yet in reality I was imploring help of the very Dubkoff to whom I had cried “Hold your tongue!” on the night of the matriculation dinner

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75. "I see you don't believe, you think I am jesting," continued Porphyrius, more and more at his ease, without ceasing to indulge in his little laugh, whilst continuing his perambulation about the room

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76. There were also some who had perfect command of themselves, distinguished by extraordinary coolness, and jesting lightly whether they lost or won

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77. "It would just suit me! I could get rid of it in Geneva or Paris," he went on in a jesting tone

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78. Miss Paysley (aside)—He’s jesting

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