" "Your ladyship must please to rise, and let me search the bed," said the Captain; "there is no more time to lose in bandying talk.

Alone with me all this time; all last night; a clerk to swear I bought clothing for you; a register to show where we engaged a room as man and wife; the San Francisco papers already bandying your name about, already nosing after scandal.

In houses where the grace is as indispensable as the napkin, who has not seen that never settled question arise, as to who shall say it; while the good man of the house and the visitor clergyman, or some other guest belike of next authority from years or gravity, shall be bandying about the office between them as a matter of compliment, each of them not unwilling to shift the awkward burthen of an equivocal duty from his own shoulders?

I sympathize with the wretches brought here; but when I choose to call them by their proper names I am not to be accused of bandying epithets.

There were low whisperings in barrack-rooms and canteens, stealthy meetings in public-house parlours, bandying of passwords from mouth to mouth, and many other signs which made their officers right glad when the order came which sent them to foreign, and better still, to active service.

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

The grave upon whose brink he has been bandying words with the sexton, is for her!

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

We talked of wit, and of it, and aimed at it, bandying it like a ball from one to another, and resting it chiefly with thee, who wert always proud enough and vain enough of the attribute; and then more especially as thou hadst assembled us, as far as I know, principally to show the lady thy superiority over us; and us thy triumph over her.

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

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.

This trick of bandying words is, of course, common in Shakespeare.

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.

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

We don't wait for fulness, but wear out brain thin bandying about what drops on it.

'tis as easie As I to live without you; I am your husband, And long have been so, though our adverse fortune, Bandying us from one hazard to another, Would never grant me so much happiness, As to pay a husbands debt; despite of fortune, In death I'le follow you, and guard mine own; And there enjoy what here my fate forbids me.

" Tiger-like the storm leaped again, bandying them about in its paws like captive mice.

Richard was a prince compared with the specimens she had seen, though she did wonder that he should be so familiar with them, calling them by their first names, and even bandying jokes with the terrible Tim Jones spitting his tobacco juice all over the car floor and laughing so loudly at all the "Squire" said.

But how can you stand bandying compliments with a man when it is your object to make him know the very truth that is in you?

The coroner, who looked a little the worse for his dinner of the day before, was bandying jokes with the facetious reporters.

"I'm not in the habit of giving explanations to subordinates, or of bandying words with them," replied the man, in a clear, rather high-pitched but very determined voice.

E. The original, or rather the old translation, is most miserably defective and confused in its dates about this period, bandying 1499 and 1500 backwards and forwards most ridiculously.

"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.

" "This is foolish bandying of menaces," said the captain, warmly.

Disputing or bandying words backwards and forwards.