19 collocations for twits

He twits his adversaries (that is, those who are not in the leading-strings of his school or party) with some personal or accidental defect.

Katy Brown invited her to her next party on the spot; Mary Kingsley insisted on lending her her watch till recess; and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet, and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.

" Mathieu began to laugh, and twitted the Angelins on having no child of their own.

"Aha!" twitted the apparition, "then you have some heart left, JOHN BUMSTEAD?" "Heart!"

The Press were twitting the authorities concerning their inability to discover the murderer, and more than hinted at the inefficiency of the Detective Force.

He thought they preferred him, and twitted David about it; but Grizel knew that David had sometimes to order them to prefer the old man.

Having twitted her husband with his lack of power, she had been altogether powerless herself; and now she was driven to confess to herself that no further step could be taken.

It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age.

"I thought we had given up war," interjected Mr. HOGGE; and other Members twitted the Minister with having left out of his account the League of Nations.

Lord Palmerston, in last August, twitted the Ministry with Lord Ellenborough's supposed intention to retire from beyond the Indus, and congratulated the country on the frustration of that intention, as having saved us "from the eternal disgrace."

[Footnote 10: 1st Q. 'or twites my nose.']

SAUNDERS HAS A PLAN Miss Pelham's affair with Thomas Saunders by this time had reached the stage where observers feel a hesitancy about twitting the parties most concerned.

It seemed so like twitting a person on facts, when I came to think about it.

" Seguin laughed and twitted Santerre on his obsequiousness towards women.

Frequently had he twitted my sensitive sister about her little nose, and had once made her very angry in the presence of others, by offering to tell her a story, then continuing: "God and the devil take turns in shaping noses.

Lo, Frank, dost thou not see he's drunk, That twits thee with thy disposition? FRAN.

He had been twitting Thurnall with the miserable condition of the labourers in the south of England, and extolling his own country at the expense of ours.

But before the otter had been headed off she had twitted Tom with being only an eft, and told him he would be eaten by the salmon when they came up from the seathe great wide sea.

The seventh is an epigram mildly twitting Varius for his insistence upon pure diction.

19 collocations for  twits