Among the men the bravos or bullies often were dandies also in the backwoods fashions, wearing their hair long and delighting in the rude finery of hunting-shirts embroidered with porcupine quills; they were loud, boastful, and profane, given to coarsely bantering one another.

Every three months the fifteen hundred francs were remitted to the servant, and she disposed of them to the best interests of the house; bought and paid for everything with the strictest economy, for she was of so saving a disposition that they bantered her about it continually.

The French Governor of the Paumotus was there, gaily bantering half a dozen girls for whom he bought drinks.

Never heed the tide: there's plenty of room for it as well as for you!" LVI OF CONSCIENCE Lestrange was being genially bantered by Rose one day at dinner on what Rose called "problems of life and being," or "springs of action," or even "higher ground."

"Why, I thought," bantered Darrin ironically, "that you were going to fight me yourself.

When Wesley, after the June examinations, which he passed by the narrowest squeeze'twas said by outside influencecame home to display his cadet buttons and his neat gray uniform in Acredale, Kate bantered the complacent young warrior jocosely.

A lively exchange of jests and jolly banter commenced between Skeets and Gus, who could use his tongue if forced to; but presently Grace left her laughing chum and came over to where Bill had resumed his inspection.

A series of sketches, les Demoiselles de Bienfilatre, l'Affichage celeste, la Machine a gloire, and le Plus beau diner du monde, betrayed a singularly inventive and keenly bantering mind.

[Exeunt. Let me seeI have got no ready stuff to banter withbut no matter, any Gibberish will serve the Fools'tis now about the hour of Tenbut Twelve is my appointed lucky Minute, when all the Blessings that my Soul could wish, shall be resign'd to me.

" "You did so," said Belle; "but I believe you were merely bantering and jeering.

Of evenings he would sit on the porch in his broad, rush-bottomed chair, the big yellow cat on his knees, and smoke his pipe and, if he cared to do so, banter unkindly with the girls on the steps.