And when the shepherds neared the manger where lay the wondrous Babe, all jesting ceased.
From this point on all the jesting ceases, and in its rough way the play is reverent and loving.
It gives us a good idea of the rudeness of the times when such jesting with what we hold as sacred seemed not amiss.
It is written in the form of a dirge, and many people were shocked at that, for they said that it was but another form of mockery that this jesting priest had chosen with which to divert himself.
If the chaplain was a godly, philanthropic personage, who had tried to graft good principles and good behaviour on this wild slip of an adopted son, these jesting legacies would obviously cut him to the heart.
But we are jesting when Lassley appears to be very much in earnest.
Ballard recalled how he had groaned under the jesting confidences.
When I gave you good advice this morning, I had judgment for you and me; but believe me, this is no jesting matter, no question of right or wrong, but superior power.
We should have been sorry ourselves if this name, for which we feel so much love and respect, had passed from mouth to mouth, and been made a theme of jesting by these vulgar and degraded wretches.
The three brothers, Thomas, Francis and Antoine, were jesting with them, and trying to make them confess that Pierre had at least fought a battle with a cow on the high road, and ridden into a cornfield.
He spoke perhaps in a somewhat jesting way, but one could feel that he was convinced of it all, that he held everything excepting science in utter contempt.
And he saw the other feign indifference at what followed, and finish his beer and take his leave, with the jesting remark that he had an appointment with a lady at a neighbouring omnibus office.
Wounded to the heart by the other's jesting air, exasperated by the idea that there was something he could not achieve, Duvillard watched Barroux as he withdrew.
Duthil winked, and in a jestingway replied: "It's as good as done, my dear boy.
Only a kind of grunt came from his contracted throat, though he still tried to treat the matter in a jesting way.
She raised her head to look him straight in the face, and began jesting without the least constraint.
Sometimes letters came from him with an out-of-the-way postmark on them, saying in a jesting tone that he was studying the methods of an extraordinary country doctor, who seemed to cure men by touch.
The root reason for all--unhappiness, defeat, for the shaking hand and the jesting voice.
Suddenly, as if the two beauties had the same thought, they began to tease their solitary knight in a playful way, and were soon vying with each other in the jesting attention which they paid to him; this unanimity of action left them free.
Any light, cheerful jesting will be insulting in a letter of condolence.
To give pain by a light or jesting remark is as much a breach of etiquette, as to give pain by a wound made with a steel weapon, is a breach of humanity.
Then the dismal procession of the condemned passed us, followed by my father, who strode in front with his axe over his shoulder, and the laughing and jesting men-at-arms bringing up the rear.
Then the soldiers took the man up by head and heels carelessly, jesting as they went.
Have you noticed that there is a good deal of sportive, jesting poetry written in France?
But, seriously, Lance, jesting aside, I would be off with the whole thing.
She had a hundred dollars in gold that Mr. Lawrence had kindly presented to her that morning, with a jesting reference to a "new fall suit.
There was a good deal of jesting at the success of their scheme, as the crew ascended the rocks and addressed the man who had captured me by the title of captain.
But as he never spoke of this girl to either of us, I am inclined to think that Peterkin was either jesting or mistaken.
I could see, also, that Peterkin grieved and sympathised with us, for when talking about this matter he refrained from jesting and bantering us upon it.
Dowie to dree are jestingand glee, When poverty parts gude companie.
There is luxury in jesting with a solemn man, who wants to assume airs of privilege, and thinks he has a right to be impertinent.
I could get rid of it in Geneva or Paris," he went on in a jesting tone.
There were also some who had perfect command of themselves, distinguished by extraordinary coolness, and jesting lightly whether they lost or won.
To Krieger's jesting remark: "What does it matter!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jesting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
