When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and
jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear.
But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper,
jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.
"Where would I not go at the countess' command!" said Denisov, who at the Rostovs' had
jocularly assumed the role of Natasha's knight.
I immediately perceived that it was some school, but so little did I understand the import of David's remark that I called out
jocularly, "I hope he won't swish you, Oliver."
One day the Baronet surprised "her ladyship," as he
jocularly called her, seated at that old and tuneless piano in the drawing-room, which had scarcely been touched since Becky Sharp played quadrilles upon it--seated at the piano with the utmost gravity and squalling to the best of her power in imitation of the music which she had sometimes heard.
"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep,--just a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were," said the trader,
jocularly; "and, then, I'm ready to do anything in reason to 'blige friends; but this yer, you see, is a leetle too hard on a fellow--a leetle too hard." The trader sighed contemplatively, and poured out some more brandy.
Cobb waited until this flow of conversation, or more properly speaking this flood of criticism, had ceased, and then said
jocularly:--
"Hold your fire, Summerhaye," he remarked
jocularly. "Me and Moosier here have met before--and there's no man's judgment I'd sooner take than his.
I am chief here, and my orders are that you should not expose yourself to the sun!" He assumed his superiority
jocularly, but his meaning was serious.
A lodge was yielded to the exclusive possession of Inez and Ellen; and even Paul, when he saw an armed sentinel in the uniform of the States, pacing before its entrance, was content to stray among the dwellings of the "Red-skins," prying with but little reserve into their domestic economy, commenting sometimes
jocularly, sometimes gravely, and always freely, on their different expedients, or endeavouring to make the wondering housewives comprehend his quaint explanations of what he conceived to be the better customs of the whites.
Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was
jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege.
With that, he
jocularly tapped Mrs Sliderskew under the chin, and appeared, for the moment, inclined to celebrate the close of his bachelor days by imprinting a kiss on her shrivelled lips.