I jokingly replied, I had been brought up in Wellington’s school, where we were taught to make no blunders.
From the commencement of the fourth letter it would seem that Radulphus had been from home four days, and Colet jokingly tells him that he had spent all those four days in getting through one more of the Mosaic days.
And he went onjokingly to say that there was a still more pressing reason why Moses, dividing his subjects into days, might have rather called them nights; viz.
But Cheyenne jokingly declined all invitations, explaining to Bartley that in stopping to visit they would necessarily waste hours in observing the formalities of arrival and departure, although Cheyenne did not put it just that way.
Cheyenne had told Scott of the happenings since leaving Antelope, and jokingly he referred to San Andreas and Bartley's original plan of staying there awhile.
Footnote 156: The squire of Don Quixote, to whom a duke jokingly granted the government of an island for a few days.
He turns half confidently, half jokingly to the ladies, the secret pleasure which their rejection of his suit affords him increasing his cheerfulness, and even giving it a tinge of irony.
After she had taken his temperature he jokingly asked her if he bit that there little glass dingus in two what would happen?
Bailey had saidjokingly that he would give Pete the outlaw if Pete would break him.
Fatty Peter," as they jokingly called him, epitomized in two words their contempt of him.
Christophe began jokingly to beg to be excused; he said that the best thing to do that evening would be to go to bed; he was quite worn out with boredom, as tired as though he had walked ten miles.
Christophe jokingly reproached her with it once when he saw her sitting at her door in the little garden, while the lovely bells were bawling themselves hoarse summoning her.
Said jokingly of a person with very big feet:--He wasn't behind the door anyway when the feet were giving out.
A person offers to do you some kindness, and you accept it jokingly with 'Sweet is your hand in a pitcher of honey.
Berenice jokingly answered that she thought of slipping away to Switzerland for a vacance on her own account.
In this direction the circle of ladies of high position, jokingly known among the officers as "trente et quarante" on account of their age, also played a certain part.
Emmanuel, who was fond of Georges, used jokinglyto say that Christophe ought to hand him aver to him.
Sometimes Braun would jokingly tease her about her pious works and the minister's sermons.
He gaily narrated his disappointments to Grazia, and told her of his intention of returning to Switzerland: jokingly he asked her permission to leave Paris, and assured her that he was going during the following week.
Christophe used jokingly to say that the only disciples he recognized were the men who attacked him.
She reminded him of itjokingly without much delicacy.
They were congratulated on all sides, and jokingly asked what they were going to do with the money, which was likely to be quite a large sum.
There was always something or other to be looked after; and when he came home he would generally subject her, in a jokingly harsh tone, to an examination, which he called holding a summary court-martial.
Still Goethe withheld his praise, and, interrupting the applause, declared that he had a final test to propose which, he jokingly warned Felix, would infallibly cause him to break down.
The room in which he had placed the statues, and which Richard jokingly entitled "Athens," was a favorite haunt of ours.
Perez was about to make further inquiries, when it flashed on him that this was the girl, whom Obadiah had jokingly alluded to as the reason why Abe had lingered in Stockbridge, instead of moving out to York State with his tribe.
Footnote 19: An old leather case which was used for the purpose was jokingly called by him his portfolio, for the preservation of his valuable documents.
In a vague sort of way she was sorry for herself, till Mrs. Barnaby came in with the baby wildcat, which she jokingly offered as a St. Patrick's day greeting.
The reader will remember that Firejaws, who has died in the meantime, once jokingly compared Fanfaro to a Newfoundland dog, as he found means everywhere to rescue some one.
She remembered that Marshmallow had jokingly told her the Misses Gates might ask for money, but she had not considered the matter seriously.
Dave jokinglyjostled him as though to test his skill as a fighter.
Some people had jokingly remarked that he could not tell them apart and that this was his reason for giving them up.
When he joined her, there was something jokingly apologetic about his manner, and he was smoking a cigarette; and she could not help thinking that she would have respected him more if he had held her.
All his life Bob had heard him familiarly and jokingly spoken of as the boss of the state, and had listened to the tales, current in all the country towns, of how Jethro had outwitted this man or that.
Although she spoke jokingly there was such a note of belief in her voice that Mary caught her by the arm and shook it, saying playfully, "Peacock!
She had writtenjokingly of her disappointment, but her very effort to make light of it seemed pathetic to him, and showed him how deeply she felt it.
While we were waiting Moses jokingly inquired of me, "Do you wish you were in Chicago?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jokingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
