He joked clumsily as they stood on the threshold of the chamber, whispering, blinking his eyes to make up for the lack of their usually ready twinkle.

When George was more than usually pert and conceited, the Major joked at him, which Mrs. Osborne thought very cruel.

His Excellency was very condescending, and even joked about his own slaves, asking me how much I would give him for them.

" Billy had faith that this dramatic episode would occur in the very office of the City Hotel, and he believed that some of those who had joked him about his life passion would thereafter treat him in a very different manner.

But she was not to be joked with.

Then they did not hurry themselves, but flew from farm to farm, and joked with the tame animals.

He laughed and joked all alone, but he did not miss a mouthful.

Joe held pizza in one hand and wrote in his notebook with the other while men in late middle age joked and argued.

Rhiannon joked with them but maintained a friendly distance.

When Johnson met him next (in 1781) they joked about such dangerous topics as some of Wilkes's political performances.

During the singing of the psalms there was some degree of attention, and many of the congregation joined in very becomingly; but while the clergyman was performing the service, I could not remark the slightest degree of devotion in any of them; the children played, joked, and ate, while the adults gossiped or slept; and although I was assured that many could read and even write, I saw only two old men who made any use of their Bibles.

Sailors joked, drivers laughed, a crowd peered at me with eyes full of wonder, and I was given my first ride on land, yet in what to me was a mere puddle of water.

Instead of drawing their sabers, they good naturedly joked with the people as they rode among them to disperse the mobs, and were actually cheered at times by the populace.

So we asked our hosts to excuse us, offered our sympathy and congratulations to the happy couple, who laughed and joked with us in English, while the priests continued to sing and pray.

They joked Count Polonsky about his girl, and he began to explain.

I asked him about my oxen, and he leered and jeered and joked with drunken cunning, but said nothing more.

In direct contrast to his rival, Ambrose slouched down in his seat and joked with the trembling members as they secured him in his place.

or so they talked and joked.

Then some of them began to dance, some to sing, some laughed and joked, some drank wine.

Prisoners were in the basement beneath, guards were patrolling the hall without, yet we laughed and joked, with never a reference to the great conflict in which all present bore part.

He strolled over to the tent, joked condescendingly with the guard who stood before it, and announced that the Captain had said he might talk to the prisoners.

Mr. Overtop observed, first with regret and then with pride, that their withdrawal into a corner elicited looks of surprise and curiosity, not unmingled with envy, from the little group that hovered about the refreshment table, and drank Mrs. Slapman's fine wines, and laughed and joked together.

He's thinner, of course, but he joked to me about thathe said he had turned the corner, as people do, and he wasn't going to be a pursy old party when he got older.

So was Rotscheff, and he joked her the rest of the evening.

you and John actually joked about poor Justina in her presence, auntie?" "Did I see him in her absence?" inquired Miss Christie, excusing herself.