Crossword-Solution: JOKINGLY 8 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

One day My Dear spoke jokingly to her in French and to her surprise Meriem replied in the same tongue—slowly, it is true, and haltingly; but none the less in excellent French, such, though, as a little child might use.

This was the first time I had ever noticed a LOST ad for a book, so I thought to myself "the book business is coming up." Well, when I saw the chef with the book in his hand, I said to him jokingly, "I see you found it again." He was a foreign-looking fellow, with a big beard, which is unusual for a chef, because I suppose it's likely to get in the soup.

Bedtime came, and I whispered jokingly to the Blight: “I believe I'll ask that good-looking one to 'set up' with me.” “Settin' up” is what courting is called in the hills.

Several of the papers here jokingly alluded to the fact that my article on the Venezuelan boundary had inspired the President's message.

Then some of the older kids jokingly told that Papa said, "Eat the rotten ones first and wait till the others rot to eat them." We were poor in terms of money, yet we had as much as or more than the average family in our community.