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Sentences ending with jesting

But my uncle thought it no matter for jesting. [9]
I will not stay an instant longer to be the butt of this man's coarse and spiteful jesting. [10]
So far as I am concerned, I am inclined for anything rather than jesting. [10]
Then they would bring thank-offerings to the divinity," cried Verus, and he looked up at the Empress; but she turned away from his smiling glance and exclaimed in a tone of reproof and alarm: "No playing with words, no empty speeches or rash jesting! [10]

More example sentences with the word jesting in them

Why of course you may have overheard some such jesting nonsense. [5]
With a jesting word he leaped on to the car, and even succeeded in murmuring to Alexander, unobserved, that Melissa had placed herself under his protection. [10]
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. [2]
Great-hearted Puss Russell, who came frequently to inquire, was quieted before her friend, and the frank and jesting tongue was silent in that presence. [9]
But I take the opportunity to disclaim a jesting remark about "a foresmell of the Infinite" which Mr. Conway has attributed to me, who am innocent of all connection with it. [6]
But I know that, however your jesting tongue sins against me, it has nothing to do with your disposition, whose kindness has ever been proved when the occasion offered. [10]
I went on talking to the Intendant, while some of the guests rose and scattered about the rooms, at tables, to play picquet, the jesting on our cause and the scorn of myself abating not at all. [11]
They were very successful, and amused themselves, as all young men do when alone, by talking and jesting with each other. [5]
Down in the street, instead of the King's white soldiers, was a foul, unkempt rabble, creeping out of its damp places, jesting, cursing, singing. [9]
Captain Van Duivenvoorde soothingly interposed, when Van der Laen, who was conscious of never deviating far from the truth, angrily repelled the old man's jesting insinuations. [10]
I hadt a room oap in Creenvidge Willage, among dose pig pugs over on the West Side, and I foundt"--Liudau's voice lost its jesting quality, and his face darkened--"that I was beginning to forget the boor! [8]
Sometimes I repeated poems of my own, sometimes she recited and acted passages from her best parts, amid continual jesting and laughter. [10]
Something doing always, never still, except when you will find him by the road-side, or in a tavern with all the people round him, talking, jesting, and he himself going into a trance with his book of philosophy. [11]
But, jesting aside, Mr. President, woman is lovable, gracious, kind of heart, beautiful--worthy of all respect, of all esteem, of all deference. [5]
The jesting blow might do the master harm. [10]
I am not jesting, I mean it. [10]
I am not jesting, I am merely reflecting a plain and simple truth--and without uncharitableness. [5]
Now stop this jesting, dear General, and do as I would have done you. [5]
And many a jesting word was spoken concerning our poor platters and dishes, and tin spoons, and empty stables. [10]
Gradually Xavier ceased his jesting and became quiet. [9]
So to-morrow evening," he continued, falling back into the jesting tone peculiar to him, "when the Tistar-star rises, fortune will begin to shine on you. [10]
She must undoubtedly have given Siptah some command, for the latter at first shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly then, after a somewhat lengthy discussion, half grave, half jesting, he sprang from the chariot and beckoned to the chief gaoler. [10]
I recall it dimly, as a blaze of color passing: merrymaking, jesting, feasting,--a rare contrast, I thought, to the sight I had beheld in Charlestown Bay but a while before. [9]
He possessed no defence against the reveries except a warning or a jesting word. [10]
Many a shriek came up, of which it was hard to say whether it was the expression of wild defiance or of bitter jesting, and no more suitable accompaniment could be conceived to this terrific riot than the clank of chains. [10]
The magistrate now brought the complaint to the person against whom it was made, adopting a merry jesting tone, in which Cordula gaily joined. [10]
You don't look as if you felt like jesting, and the work will be in earnest now, bloody earnest. [10]
While the magistrate and the countess were gaily arguing and jesting together she sat silent, and the others did not disturb her. [10]
Many an allusion and jesting word showed that Pellicanus still believed him to be the son of a knight, and this at last became unendurable to the lad. [10]

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