However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being There : Bev Vincent] Reference

But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facebook Wants to Destroy You] Reference

Nevertheless, this kind of jesting has its effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

BTW, Weiner wasn't "jesting", and you know that as well as I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

Louis XI. was also addicted to this jesting which is not convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference

These idle words are the same with that foolish talking and jesting which is forbidden, Eph.v. 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

After jesting freely on this subject at first, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Pike's jesting flowed off him like water off a duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"I am not jesting, I am in earnest," said M. M.rrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

'Shame speed a' your jesting, my lord, 'quo' Dickie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

The others had laughed, assuming that he was jesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bandit Love] Reference

Jim didn't feel like jesting on so serious a subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

"Personalities," said the financier, in a jesting tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"That's not a suitable topic for jesting," Fay frowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference

Sir Philip could not well bear any jesting on the Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Seriously, (and apart from jesting), this is no light matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

From his view-point the situation was too serious for jesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"Is this a time for jesting?" exclaimed the girl, impatiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

He passed with a friendly nod and some jesting word, which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

"I have listened to your jesting in silence, Charles," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

When they were seated opposite to each other, she continued, jesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Diana with the white brow was filled with laughing, jesting soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

I am not jesting, -- I am in earnest; won't you take my word for it? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

If you were jesting in what you said, say so, sir, and we can shake hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

He had still upon his lips that inexplicable smile, jesting and sad at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Madame de Montgeron bent her head; her jesting vein was quenched in a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

“ 'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus, Borges, Jelly Roll] Reference

It was a fault of the French, she said, to think that people were always jesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

'Tis dangerous jesting with giants, who can crush us like straws beneath their finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

This may, at the moment, have been spoken in a jesting way, but it is none the less true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

Still Philippa came on slowly, bowing, smiling, and jesting -- she ever approached nearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

Word without devotion, jesting about sacred things, quoting Scripture in fun, and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

"Really, I don't know, Don Carlos," answered Standish, deciding that the other was jesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bandit Love] Reference

Trivulzio made a jesting remark which clearly shows how little her fate grieved the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Thou knowest all, and art only jesting: and my soul quivers in my body at the sound of thy name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Substance of a Dream] Reference