Significados de jesting way en inglés

I found myself answering her question in the old half- jesting way.

You take much too literally the jesting way in which Mr. Chillingly expresses himself.

But it was only a jesting way of expressing her exceeding love, after all.

Duthil winked, and in a jesting way replied: It's as good as done, my dear boy.

Unlike other girls, I never heard her speak in the light jesting way with which others mention a love-affair.

He mocks and scorns his deeper nature; and, like Shakspeare in Hamlet, says his deepest things in a jesting way.

And Gaude uttered those decisive words in a light, jesting way, as though surprised and amused by her profound grief.

In a jesting way, St. Pierre, who had never seen her before, and knew nothing of her personal life, said,-

In this fashion he continued explaining his ideas while Gregoire listened, again quite lively and taking things in a jesting way.

Only a kind of grunt came from his contracted throat, though he still tried to treat the matter in a jesting way.

A better one exists from an unknown hand, which tells, in a jesting way, the secret of the sorrows of his later life:-

He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the Third.

Marie, who was still very flushed, thereupon answered in a jesting way: "Well, it at least proves that I'm not perfect."

Are you thinking of taking a bath? asked the gobernadorcillo in a jesting way as he stared at the simple attire of the old man.

To Lady Lucy he never spoke of Oliver's opinions, except in a half- jesting way; to other people he did not speak of them at all.

When he had counted those three hundred francs, those fifteen louis, he said in a bitter, jesting way, The money hasn't grown on the road.