They talk loudly, hum the latest popular air, call jestingly to a lonely, forgotten girl in a boa and white veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shallow Soil] Reference

They walked together out of the bright room of the large decorative picture called jestingly "The Three Disgraces," on through the Salle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference

I could get up now, if I wished, "jestingly," I am getting well as fast as I can, just to convict the other doctor of a mistaken diagnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

"At least from your point of view," I said jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

Gaillard or "Saucy Castle," as he jestingly called it.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

I asked jestingly, and yet aware of a certain odd discomfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

Nattie said, jestingly, yet with an undertone of earnestness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

"I wonder how much you can drink!" said the carabao jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Such an advent as this had been threatened jestingly many times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

"Has it come to this?" cried Mae, half jestingly, half bitterly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mae Madden] Reference

'Always bellowing, you Swedish oxen!' shouted a soldier jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] Reference

Finally Mr. Swift said, jestingly, "What security have you to offer?".    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

Companions; because every one jestingly tells him, that he is sick of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference

I jestingly told her; and now it was returned to me at my sorest need.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference

"'Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall,'" quotes Molly, jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

Channeljumper shuddered jestingly at this but remained pleasantly orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Like Martian Music] Reference

"Maybe they're in -- the tool -- box of your car," said Diddick jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls] Reference

"It is not much of a living," said Lucy, meeting the words half jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference

He seized Pete Stubbs, jestingly, by the neck, however, and shook him hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference

These matters were to her most repugnant when treated lightly and jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

Gwen answered in the manner the questions were asked, seriously or jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference

Amy had meant what she said, and Austin was just as far from speaking jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

On a previous occasion he had spoken jestingly of the new currency of Edward VI.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"Why, you and that girl must be preparing a lengthy address," she said to Davy jestingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

I frequently called his attention to the orders on this subject, rather jestingly than seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Mrs. Hazleton scolded her jestingly for late rising, and asked if she was always such a lie-abed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

"What, a good looking fellow like that?" said Du Meresq, jestingly, "and he admires you awfully.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

Aristophanes jestingly likens anyone who helps to disseminate his verses to the worst of criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Eugène Brifault, in his 'Corsair,' alluded jestingly to the mysterious pregnancy of the mother of Henry V.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

It was all said half-jestingly, half-seriously, but Juno gave her head a superior little toss as she answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

While frolicking with a comrade, at his barracks, he had taken up his revolver, jestingly threatening to shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Both had refused, but Conti had referred her to Caponsacchi -- not evilly like Margherita, but jestingly, flippantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

After a seeming eternity we reached the top, and once there I stepped into my chambers, as the King jestingly called them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolutions of Time] Reference

He saw that an American general had on a good pair, and said to him, jestingly, 'I will gladly give you a guinea for them.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference

So excellent a "sermon" did he preach on numerous occasions that Mr. Nelson jestingly told his friend that he must stay out of his parish!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference