How To Use Jesting In A Sentence

  • Among the heathen, jesting was counted a virtue, and therefore received the title "eutrapelia" by Aristotle. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost
  • Hence they are querulous, and not disposed to jesting or laughter-the love of laughter being the very opposite of querulousness. Rhetoric
  • However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana. Being There : Bev Vincent
  • --- And then I have a queer humour o 'my ain, that sets a strolling beggar weel eneugh, whase word naebody minds --- but ye ken Sir Arthur has odd sort o' ways --- and I wad be jesting or scorning at them The Antiquary
  • In this street the happy, jesting, jostling crowd is in one continuous "festa". Brazilian Sketches
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  • I take Heaven to witness, after all my jesting, my heart is innocent, and the sports of my pen just like those of my infancy when I rode cockhorse on a stick. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Edmond Scherer
  • We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other. Chapter 11
  • I tell'd the inquisitdoners, that ize drowned_, and I _told_ the _jury nither geestin nor jokin about it; but of inquest_, that _I was_ if they'd permit me to give em my _not jesting_ about it; but, _by ideze, they'd obleege me. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
  • We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other. Chapter 11
  • And then I have a queer humour o’ my ain, that sets a strolling beggar weel eneugh, whase word naebody minds — but ye ken Sir Arthur has odd sort o’ ways — and I wad be jesting or scorning at them — and ye wad be angry, and then I wad be just fit to hang mysell.” The Antiquary
  • Now she could understand, that "calenture" which he had sometimes jestingly alluded to, as coming upon him at times, when he felt literally sick for the sight of a green field or a hedge full of birds. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
  • When the burgrave, Frederick of Hohenzollern, came to take possession of his new territory he was received with the jesting remark: "Were it to rain burgraves for a whole year, we should not allow them to grow in the march. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
  • There was a good deal of such "scurril jesting" in the paper, especially in a department called "Prattle. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
  • Do I look as if I am jesting?" she asked, her face pale and tense.
  • She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy. November 1st, 2002
  • She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy.
  • In Dickon's eyes, the outlaw is hardly the laughing, jesting merry man found in Pyle's version.
  • And he does not know that yesterday was a day of purposely prepared rack and thumbscrew, whereby he was justly tortured for his guilt in jesting about Tib's avoirdupoise-weight; but he knows how he missed her all day, and how essential she is to his very existence. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • Uric acid levels are elevated when injesting too much purine, which is found in red meats, legumes, beer, and vegetables such as asparagus and Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana. Being There : Bev Vincent
  • It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
  • Kegs of hard cider and spruce beer and perhaps more potent brews are abroach, and behind the haggling and jesting and bustle you may catch the sound of muskets or the whoop of the Indians from afar. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
  • But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say. Facebook Wants to Destroy You
  • -- And then I have a queer humour o 'my ain, that sets a strolling beggar weel eneugh, whase word naebody minds -- but ye ken Sir Arthur has odd sort o' ways -- and I wad be jesting or scorning at them -- and ye wad be angry, and then I wad be just fit to hang mysell. The Antiquary — Complete
  • Neither let this be jestingly conceived, bicause the works of the one be essenciall, the other in imitation or fiction: for everie understanding, knoweth the skill of ech Artificer standeth in that Idea, or fore conceit of the worke, and not in the worke it selfe. Defence of Poesie
  • Plutarch hath almost made a book of the Lacedaemonian kind of jesting, which joined ever pleasure with distaste. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
  • Literature is filled with companionable, often jesting and jawboning mates, an endless procession of Nicks and Noras and Mr. and Mrs. Bennetts.
  • Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. ' A History of English Literature
  • Throughout the interview she kept her temper perfectly , laughing and jesting.
  • 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 merely comments on the saying of Anselm characterized by the same jesting tone: a spiritualium quaestionum disputatione sunt exsufflandi "(P. L., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • ‘There is a sort of jesting which is very much in earnest, and includes some pretty serious disgust,’ said Martin. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Rembrandt has a quizzical, jesting expression, as well he may, in view of his wondrous hat and slashed leather jerkin, ornate with glass beads.
  • When they're all together, they patter back and forth in the kind of jesting, referential language that can only pass between people who have spent their whole lives together. Today We Live
  • Testament. nor -- rather, "or" (compare Eph 5: 3). jesting -- Greek, "eutrapelia"; found nowhere else in the New Testament: implying strictly that versatility which turns about and adapts itself, without regard to principle, to the shifting circumstances of the moment, and to the varying moods of those with whom it may deal. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Ala al-Din fancied that the Caliph was jesting with him; but, on the morrow, the King went in to Kut al-Kulub and said to her, I have given thee to Ala Al – Din, whereat she rejoiced, for she had seen and loved him. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Sometimes, while Grandfather Gardinois, who had laid aside in her honor his old-fashioned hunting-jackets and swanskin waistcoats, was jesting with her, amusing himself by contradicting her in order to draw out a sharp reply, she would gaze steadily, coldly into his eyes, without replying. The French Immortals Series — Complete

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