"This isn't a joking matter, sir.

I took occasion in my speeches, in a joking way which provoked nothing but laughter and good humour, to hint at some of the unreasonable traits in the conduct of my Canadian friends.

" Sylvia was aware, through the laughter which followed this joking remark, that there was an indefinable stir around the table.

The lots the fellows drew seemed to be in a joking mood when they selected History and Sleepy for room-matesthe hardest student and

But her will hardened slowly under his joking opposition, and she became no less formidable as she grew more calm.

A few days later, Case, in a joking sort of way, remarked to Mr. McLain: "I think some of your landowners ought to sell Major Bancroft something in the way of real estate.

They walked on in silence, and presently he began again in his usual joking strain: "See what one of the Apex girls has been up to?" Apex was too remote for her to understand the reference, and he went on: "Why, Millard Binch's wifeIndiana Frusk that was.

he asked her, trying to keep to his usual joking tone.

And when he had made some joking answer, she had asked, in a very serious tone: "You're a great friend of Lionel Varick, eh?"

Oh, the stringy-bark, &c. At night when work was over I’d nurse the youngest child, And when I’d say a joking word, the mother would laugh and smile.

Because wit is an exquisite product of high powers, we are not therefore forced to admit the sadly confused inference of the monotonous jester that he is establishing his superiority over every less facetious person, and over every topic on which he is ignorant or insensible, by being uneasy until he has distorted it in the small cracked mirror which he carries about with him as a joking apparatus.

[101] In other pictures, a clown or jester appears, introducing a witty joking element into the scene and thus presenting Krishna's attitude to love as all-inclusive.