jesting

• “However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana.”

  Being There : Bev Vincent

• “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

• “But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say.”

  The Huffington Post: Facebook Wants to Destroy You

• “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

• “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

• “‘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

• “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

• “First, on account of the very species of the acts employed for the purpose of fun, and this kind of jesting, according to Tully (De Offic. i, 29), is stated to be”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Luckily, in contrast to it, we have no lack of that harmless jesting which is more typically English.”

  Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers

• “Nevertheless, this kind of jesting has its effect.”

  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

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