"Cousin," said Hadifah to him jokingly, "What large mouthfuls you take; heaven preserve me from having an appetite like yours."

she went on jokingly.

"No telling but what I may glimpse a submarine creeping along under the surface," he told the others jokingly.

jokingly, in joke, in jest, in sport, in play.

One hears college presidents sayhalf jokingly, of coursethat there is no use appointing a man over thirty to the faculty these days.

We burst into laughter at the antics of our friend, who, we imagined, had been seized with a fit of madness quite at variance with his usual quiet demeanour, and jokingly asked him what was the matter.

Picking up one of these, by mere chance, Malatesta aimed it jokingly at his companions, when to his and their alarm the weapon exploded, and, sad to behold, poor young Francesco Brivio, a son of Signore Dionisio Brivio of Milan, a fellow page, fell to the ground mortally wounded.

It must be remarked here that Jacques Coythier, physician to Louis XI., in order to curry favour with his master, who was very fond of new fruits, took as his crest an apricot-tree, from which he was jokingly called Abri-Coythier.

In a burlesque rage, he seized the glass, drained it at a gulp, and jokingly begged the guests not to tell his wife.

They make a jest of it, and their husbands jokingly threaten them with it.

The tin spoons gleamed like silver, the big brown crash towel that Ken had jokingly laid across the table looked quite like a runner.

"There," he said jokingly, "I'm coming here again next Monday at the same time, and mind you're here, my lad, to work it out!" "Thank you, sir," said Kit.

Once, she jokingly demanded why he had never dedicated anything to her, and the legend says he cried: "Why should I, when everything I write is yours?" The purveyors of this legend disagree as to the age of the young countess; some say she was seventeen, and some that she was eleven, while those who disbelieve the story altogether say that she was only seven years old.

Telling her husband of it in the evening, Miranda Conwell said, half jokingly, "our boy will some day be a great preacher."

All this was so well known at home, that members of the Opposition in Congress jokingly accused the Administration of undertaking to decide constitutional questions for the people of Tripoli.

Most of the damage had been repaired in a few days, and people were quite content, referring to the past danger jokingly.

She had a very sweet voice, and before she had been singing long we had the crew of a "dust express"as we jokingly call a gravel trainstanding about, and they were speedily reinforced by many cowboys, who deserted the medley of cracked pianos or accordions of the Western saloons to listen to her, and who, not being overcareful in the terms with which they expressed their approval, finally by their riotous admiration drove us inside.

"Oh, not much, Mr. Harris," replied old Tom, jokingly.

The bailiff, reassured by these words, said jokingly to Kohlhaas' wife, who was kissing her child repeatedly, "Surely he will not insist upon being paid immediately!"

The two sovereigns asked her jokingly if she did not have something pleasing to reveal to them too?

I repeated the question I had asked her and, while she examined my hand, I added jokingly to the Elector, 'To me, so it seems, she has nothing really agreeable to announce!'

Then once again they asked if I couldn't be dissuaded, to which I jokingly replied that I would set my dogs after them and drive them home if they didn't make haste to go there at once.

When we got there our clothes were pretty well saturated with bear's oil, and we jokingly said it must have soaked through our bodies, we had eaten so much bear meat.

She asked for the shot and presented them jokingly to the Hunter.

When Bishop Phillips Brooks sailed from America on his last trip to Europe, a friend jokingly remarked that while abroad he might discover some new religion to bring home with him.