| Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. |
| Let thy hair grow long and talk Punjabi,' said the young soldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. |
| Half jestingly, I ask if he has ever been tempted to throw anything at it. |
| They heard her talking normally, even jestingly, with one of the aunts, and they admired her for her courage. |
| At last the conversation turned jestingly upon the upsetting of the shelf. |
| The nazism remarks, which were jestingly made in response to a question about his German roots, would probably spell career suicide if uttered outside the rarefied atmosphere of the Cannes film festival – and indeed may yet. |
