Significados de jesting manner em inglês

He spoke in a half- jesting manner, but his ironical voice challenged me.

Her cousins Sol and Estrella alluded to the Spaniard in a jesting manner.

For one moment, under the hall gas, he almost dropped his jesting manner.

But, though treated in this jesting manner, Luke could not help feeling a little anxious.

In half jesting manner she mentioned her suspicions to Lady Emily, who treated the idea with her usual ridicule.

He had dropped his jesting manner altogether and spoke with the deep earnestness of the expert airing his pet topic.

Layton departed, and left me brooding over the sad tale which he had told in such an absurd and jesting manner.

Then, throwing off his jesting manner, he showed the queen his plans for destroying the mighty preparations which were being made against England.

But Paganel, in a towering rage, would not give up the contest, and turned upon Glenarvan, whose intervention in this jesting manner he resented.

"What state secrets have you to discuss?" asked Mr. Carlyle in a jesting manner.

"And what answer will the Queen be pleased to give to the great Lord?" asked I, in a jesting manner.

"Perhaps you will thank him for it when you get to be Dr. Franklin, Jr.," answered Nat, in a jesting manner.