He had never heard his parents say such a thing, even in jest.

Let him have his little jests for now, she thought.

I say it in jest to get a point across.

How could he make a jest of something like this?

They do not see it as anything more than jest among friends.

We soon found out that the man did not speak in jest.

How can you even address her as such in jest?

Never point a weapon at another person, even in jest.

I mean this in jest of course if its not obvious.

As the saying goes, many a true word is spoken in jest.

He had taken her months of hard work and reduced it to nothing more than a jest!

I say this in jest, but you have to understand what the motivation is.

"Some years earlier, they might have cut off my head," he said, half in jest.

So a good hour or two may pass with song and jest.

"The decision is made, but always he will be welcome on Jest."

The woman laughed again as if it were all a great jest.

All she could remember was laughing very hard at some of his jests.

I hope that post is in jest or on the wrong article.

I said, only half in jest, that we should just go to the honor system and we'd come out way ahead.

You will be a most excellent subject for my jests!

I have heard many jests made at the expense of that law.

Even so, he responded to the jest as if it was serious.

He grinned at me as if it were all a fine jest.

The old man snorted as if I had made a bad jest.

The old man's head looked like something that had been carved in jest.

I think it is not right to jest about such things.

"Have you ever known me to jest about something this serious?"

He looked from one to the other of them, and said, "You are jesting with me?"

I stared at him, not sure whether he was jesting.

It is not something to take lightly or jest about.

When the leaves fall from the trees you'll jest be able to make it out.

Do not jest with your superior in his hour of need.

"Do you really think I'd jest about a thing like this?"

"You jest when this is a matter of serious concern to me?"

"You jest set right there and prove to me who your man is."

How can the king have the heart to jest about a man who has rendered him so many and such great services?

"All right, have you ever known me to jest about food?

"I would not have you jest about such things," said Helen.

He decided that the marriage he'd jested about with her would come to pass.

He spoke lightly enough, but with no sense of jesting.

Can you not tell when one of my poor kind is jesting?"

Hey, you might want to go back to school and study child psychology, he jested.

It was quite clear that he would not appreciate any jesting on the subject.

"Perhaps they've come to do something about the traders you allow on your side of the world," she jested.

A man must be very full of faith to jest about his divinity.

The man in black did not seem to notice the jesting insult.

Well, he said, jesting apart, tell me when the meeting occurred.

Let us try not to jest, if we can.

If he wasn't jesting, it was for him to say so.