How To Use jesting In A Sentence
- Throughout the interview she kept her temper perfectly , laughing and jesting.
- 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
- However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana. Being There : Bev Vincent
