18 collocations for bandy

I'll not bandy you Words nor debate.

The soldiers laughed, and bandied a few jokes on the comrade alluded to.

We know, full well, the outcry that will be made by multitudes, at these declarations; the multiform cavils, the flat denials, the charges of "exaggeration" and "falsehood" so often bandied, the sneers of affected contempt at the credulity that can believe such things, and the rage and imprecations against those who give them currency.

"Pray don't let us begin bandying compliments back and forth.

At such times might be found a goodly company of yeomen or country folk seated around the blazing hearth, bandying merry jests, while roasted crabs[Small sour apples] bobbed in bowls of ale upon the hearthstone.

Marian and Nelly spent a considerable part of their lives in bandying their likes and dislikes under the impression that they were arguing important points of character and conduct.

But not to be bandying assertions where proof is abundant, I deem it my duty to transmit to Your Excellency the depositions of a number of gentlemen, citizens of this State, of great respectability, and whose statements are entitled to the most implicit confidence.

For all the while that he was bandying meaningless messages he continued his onward march.

And like a ball bandied 'twixt pride and wit, Rather than yield, both sides the prize will quit: Then whilst his foe each gladiator foils, The atheist looking on enjoys the spoils.

Without heeding the furious looks of the husbands, they bandied from one to another the sentiments and longings inspired by so many beauties.

I much grudge giving an evening (even if it were not tiring) to bandying small-talk with dull people.

It may be well to say that, with the exception of the occasional necessity or seeming-necessity for taking one side or the other in a matter of dispute, I have avoided the facility of bandying highly moral verdicts and labelling these victors or victims of life with tags marking their destinations in the next world.

"You are a mariner of the long voyage," returned the Patroon, unwilling that Alida should not believe him equal to bandying wits with the stranger.

" "We will not bandy his merits or his demerits between us.

They bandied charges and contradictions so vigorously this afternoon that the SPEAKER had to intervene to put an end to these "nonsensical bickerings.

I wish to bandy no epithets, or reproaches.

The two men were evidently getting on to the tax again, for I could hear them bandying figures to and fro.

Whether it were a question mov'd by chance Or spitefully of purpose (I being there And your own Country-man) I cannot tell; But when much tossing Had bandyed both the King and you, as pleas'd Those that tooke up the Rackets, in conclusion The Father Jesuits (to whose subtile Musicke Every eare there was tyed) stood with their lives In stiffe defence of this opinion

18 collocations for  bandy