Once outside, she suddenly dropped her bantering manner and said quite earnestly: "How kind it was of you to come and see him to-night!

"What day is it, Pearl," he said, with the laugh in his voice, the bantering laugh that made his patients love him.

and her eyes flashed as she tried to draw herself up and impose on the bantering crowd.

For a moment his voice lost its bantering note.

In answer to the emperor's bantering questions, he declared that he was his mother's cupbearer, her page, and her gallant knight, which answers so amused Charlemagne that he sent for her.

He led a perfectly correct life; he was a wily diplomat, and he had retained nothing of his air of jeering at the world but his bantering smile.

She smiled and the dimples came, though there was a nervous tremor in the upturned corners of her mouth that belied her bantering air and brought Max quickly to her side.

The witty Rosalind declares to Orlando, in her bantering way, that "there is a man haunts the forest, that abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind ...

So he assumed a bantering attitudehe resorted to what she would have termed "kidding.