1
And worrying. She is joking, but her words are also deadly serious.
2
There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal.
3
The children couldn't quite make out whether he was joking or not.
4
Stormgren had often found it difficult to tell when Karellen was joking.
5
Doctor Percival squeezed his arm and said, 'I was only joking, Davis.
1
The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.
2
I saw through his jocular exterior in several ways after his diagnosis.
3
Ms Boaden argued: Most of their comments were jocular or light-hearted banter.
4
Harry is known primarily for inheriting the jocular racism of his grandfather.
5
The old genius was as jocular as the young one was pleasant.
1
Fortunately, the Crows were in a jocose, rather than a sanguinary mood.
2
And also it offers people a chance to be jocose with facility.
3
He even, as time passed, became in a sardonic fashion almost jocose.
4
Indeed, one newspaper diarist wrote a jocose, rather knowing remark about it.
5
Surveying himself complacently in the glass, it pleased Mr. Toomey to be jocose.
1
She is jesting: I have it here; Monsieur, the feint is useless.
2
You know that I am not jesting; I mean what I say.
3
Somehow or other, I no longer felt in the mood for jesting.
4
You are only jesting, sir; I should be ashamed to take it.
5
Often of a morning Babbitt came bouncing and jesting in to breakfast.
6
He let it be seen that this jesting was in poor taste.
7
The jesting lines at the head of this chapter advert to these.
8
Everywhere men take delight in jesting with men and wounding one another.
9
I do it in a half-jesting spirit, refusing to take death seriously.
10
The ale flowed freely, and there was much laughter and loud jesting.
11
He had not been jesting when he said this would be perverted.
12
Even his jesting allusion to their theatrical arrival in port was cheering.
13
Miss Griggs giggled in a silly way, as if I were jesting.
14
He spoke in a half-jesting manner, but his ironical voice challenged me.
15
At first Skylan thought the ogre was jesting, and he was annoyed.
16
There is no authority for the jesting humour given by Lord Bacon.
