77 adjectives to describe retorting

Jack, too, had made much of her, and seemed to delight in her sharp retorts to the inanities of would-be wits.

The Colonel could not stoop to the obvious retort.

" I bit my lips to keep back the angry retort which leaped to them, and I saw Washington's hand trembling on his sword.

" This, of course, annoyed the innocent man beyond measure, but she was gone far down the hall before he could think of the retort suitable.

tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous. recrimination &c (accusation) 938; revenge &c 919; compensation &c 30; reaction &c (recoil) 277.

"Never was drowned yet," was the prompt retort; and pushing off, he soon lost the opportunity to repeat that boast!

" "Cheer him up!" was the fierce retort; "what could cheer him!

What I have thus in general touched upon, will account to you why I could not more particularly relate what passed in this evening's conversation: which, as may be gathered from what I have written, abounded with approbatory accusations, and supposed witty retorts.

And when Rudolph, faithful to certain tradesmen snoring in Bremen, would have protested mildly, he let fly a stinging retort, and did not regain his temper until they had passed the outskirts of the village.

Indeed there was an incident in her life so sad that from the day of her recovery she was considered to be under the special care of the Good Spirit, so that even the most influential chiefs or hunters had a superstitious fear of showing any temper, or making any bitter retort, no matter what she might say.

" This confident retort is not wholly just.

The captain started and eyed her fiercely; Mrs. Kingdom, her good temper quite restored by this little retort, folded her hands in her lap and gazed at him with renewed sympathy.

He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastick wit, and such a variety of degrading images, of every one of which I was the object, that, though I can bear such attacks as well as most men, I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company, that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort.

He was still a little afraid of the said giant, who had shortly before administered a vigorous retort to his countryman Blair.

He always referred slightingly to Sturt, Cunningham, and Leichhardt, and his perversity on the subject of the junction of the Darling and the Murray drew even from the gentle Sturt a richly-deserved and unanswerable retort.

"I was a colonel that evening," came the dry retort.

I thought you had been superior, Griffith, to this dull and hackneyed retort.

Of the hundreds who thus assailed, not only his literary, but his moral reputation, he has distinguished Settle and Shadwell alone by an elaborate retort.

" "He's worth several thousand to me alive," replied Langdon, with which enigmatic retort he dropped behind to see how Muskwa was riding.

" "That is rather an old-fashioned retort.

can't you see that far?" is the frequent retort, and in the pity is a dash of impatience.

And with this gloomy retort, he urged the mare to a down-headed trot.

These smelter products were in gold retorts of such a size that they could be made away with as easily as though they had reached the mint and been coined.

" Here Mr. Fisher hints at, rather than fully states, the grand retort of the Southerners,"Our fathers, you say, were opposed to slavery: very good; but we are not: why should we be bound by their opinions?"

'No, ye can't,' was the gruff retort.

77 adjectives to describe  retorting