" "That's no news," countered Mr. Tutt.

Rose, my girl, it is very true he has not thy pretty face, but I know him to be wealthy and liberal; and were he ten times more ugly, these two virtues would be enough to counter balance all his deformity, and if not sufficient actually to alter the shape and hue of his features, at least enough to prevent one thinking them so much amiss.

When do you start?" "You don't mind, do you, Bob?" countered Betty, puzzled.

Have you begun to study diplomacy yet, Billy Boy?" "Does she chapyron yuh this fervent when the Pilgrim's the man?" countered Billy resentfully.

"Maybe," countered the bereaved Buncle swiftly, "you did not lay your hand upon it; but you had it tae your breakfast for all that, Davie!"

Clique countered clique, and conspirators undermined conspirators, while a peculiar tension hung over all.

Rose, my girl, it is very true he has not thy pretty face, but I know him to be wealthy and liberal; and were he ten times more ugly, these two virtues would be enough to counter balance all his deformity, and if not sufficient actually to alter the shape and hue of his features, at least enough to prevent one thinking them so much amiss.

It had always been held that the Grand Fleet required a total force of one hundred destroyers and ten flotilla leaders for the double purpose of screening the ships from submarine attack when at sea and of countering the enemy's destroyers and attacking his heavy ships with torpedo fire in a fleet action.

If Zia Agnese do but this, she'll counter The Evil Eye, and maybe with her own Detect who thieves her Serafina's hay.

"Why for?" countered our old friend McFluke, one-time proprietor of a saloon on the bank of the Lazy.

" "He'll have to take his chance of that, How," countered the girl.

" She restored the gun to her holster and looked steadily at him; he felt a certain shock in countering her glance.

" "I didn't know," countered Gloria, making a face at him, "that I was entertaining a starved wild man for lunch.

"I ain't ever said a word to her," countered Jack Harpe.

"I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.

Even the splendid courage of its hero Milos, who counters an imputation of treachery by riding in full daylight into the Ottoman camp and murdering the Sultan, even this courage is rather near to desperation.

"He says what god you mean!" countered the interpreter.

"Manuel's got tricky eyes," countered Jack.

" "Not since she was reported to have run away with you," countered Juliet.

" "That might be equally true of the provisions of his will, might it not?" countered the lawyer.

"What's he been up to now?" "What's he been up to before this?" countered Leverage.

This is precisely why Bhembre had to seek the support of a newspaper like The Navhind Times to counter the likes of Jaisingrao Rane, despite heading Sunaparant himself.

Mr. CLYNES, to whom and the late Lord RHONDDA much of the Ministry's success was due, was particularly insistent on the need of some permanent Government control, to counter the machinations of the food-trusts.

" "Is that an offer?" countered MacPherson swiftly.

" "Guess you won't," countered Mike.