jesting

Example Sentences

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Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesting in this fashion the quintette had again taken up their walk, this time headed for Acasia House.

From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline

"Jesting with her!" repeated Mansana scornfully, with clenched fists and knitted brows; whilst Sardi interjected: "Who is to look after her when you are gone?"

From Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands by Gosse, Edmund

Jesting apart, Dunn," said his Lordship, "Augusta is right.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James