Example Sentences

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"He is jesting at us; he wants to save the notary," replied Morel, quite crazed, and struggling with Rodolph.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

Armand is jesting, laughing, and smoking with us one day, the next he's pitched out of his carriage going down to Asnières, and all we think of is—that his horses are for sale.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

This, it must be confessed, is sad stuff even for a laureate of twenty, and is jesting with difficulty.

From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by Leask, W. Keith (William Keith)

They crowd around the lady; it is supposed at first that she is jesting, but her emotion is too serious to have been causeless.

From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Feuillet, Octave

Do you not know her well enough, Landis, to know when she is jesting and when she is not?”

From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Vosburgh, R. G.