The clever man of whom I am now speaking plays also very agreeably; and jestingly declares, like Fox, that after the pleasure of winning, he knows no greater than that of losing.
When it was announced to the Emperor one day that they desired to appoint him their hetman, the Emperor was much amused by this offer, and said jestingly that he was ready to indorse this choice of a free people.
I brought up my sewing-machine, and said jestingly that a skirt more or less was a mere trifle for a thing like this.
Falkenberg was in high spirits at this mark of confidence, and jestingly hinted that I envied him the same.
You may for all that, drink a bumper with him," jestingly replied the mysterious stranger.
Then, as the child sat silent, her ragged arms piled with roses, he asked her jestingly what else she desired.
Leila heard it with a shrug; but such things mattered to her now, and she cried over it at night, burning that Plank should hear her name used jestingly to emphasise the depth of her husband's degradation.
As I held it in my hand, and said jestingly to Madame von Morien that the prince royal had forgotten to write the address, Mademoiselle von Schwerin came and tore it from me in a most unladylike manner, and declared it was hers.
The man refused the wayfarer's request, saying jestingly in his refusal, that those things were not melons and fruits, but only stones.
He even touched jestingly on the Court concerts as though he were far from taking his position, his present successes, the theatre, or indeed life in general with any particular seriousness.
He saw for the first time the designation Jew, which he himself had often used flippantly, jestingly and contemptuously, in a quite new and at the same time melancholy light.
George asked him jestingly if he had already recovered from his failure of this morning.
He goes on to allege the Divine Clemency, and jestingly says: Were we to fulfil the will of God perfectly we should be cheating God of His Godhead; and what would then become of the article of the forgiveness of sins?
Graham in his letter said jestingly to his aunt that he had at last attained his "majority," and that she might therefore look for a little more discretion on his part.
From time to time a letter appeared in Mrs. Mayburn's favorite journal signed by the initials of the traveller; and these epistles she cut out and pasted most carefully in a book which Grace jestingly called her "family Bible.
This Bertalda was a wayward girl, and each day pleased me less and less; but I continued in her company, and asked her jestingly to give me a glove.
From these I find thee an ignorant and unsteady lass still, and my frolicsome playmate as before; it is by way of jest that I speak so to you, as you jestingly said these things to me.
I turned to her with some joke and jestingly gave her different directions about the care of my zoological collection, (preserved in camphor and spirits of wine) which I had entrusted to her charge.
Even when I had met her alone, and entreated her both jestingly and earnestly not to be so cruel, she had always remained inexorable.
Still it always seemed to me as if I were wronging you, when I used jestingly to evade your railleries on my bachelorhood.
You really have given me a spiritual medicine," Morrik jestingly said, "I must beg of you to go on prescribing for me, for that desperate American had quite unsettled me.
Pompey half-jestingly speaks as though he had gone bail for him for a sum of money.
Mendelssohn blushed like a boy, and made a snatch at the letter, but Lessing jestingly insisted on reading it to the company.
I lent the manuscript to Lessing, observing jestingly that I, too, could write like Shaftesbury, the Englishman.
No, I shall mention itjestingly in a letter, as my manner is, and at the same time caution him against Phanes.
When Pranken now came up to Manna and jestingly invited her to dance, Lina jumped up from the piano.
We do not speak jestingly in saying that it is Mr. Darwin's misfortune to know more about the question he has taken up than any man living.
Let thy hair grow long and talk Punjabi,' said the young soldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb.
He drew out a handful of rupees, and snatched half-jestingly at the chart, which tore in the lama's grip.
Although I met Steiner by chance a few days ago, and asked him jestingly what he had brought me from Leipzig, he did not make the smallest allusion to your commission or to yourself.
The passion of love has so violently assailed him that he has almost taken fire, and some one jestingly wrote that Holz was a son of the deceased Papageno.
Adèle's evident confusion had distressed me deeply; but Monsieur de Montfort was the first to speak jestingly of it.
Because I've no carriage, you talkjestingly of abandoning me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jestingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
