28 Verbs to Use for the Word rejoinder

Great was his surprise to receive the rejoinder, "Take care what you do with respect to that young man, for he is as surely called of God to preach as you are."

501-572]: and that reply begot his rejoinder in his Preface to The Duke of LERMA

"But, your Honor!a delay of only twenty-four hours in which to prepare a rejoinder to this petitionto allegations of such astounding gravity?"

He makes no rejoinder, and we begin again to walk along homeward, but slowly this time.

" Checking the rejoinder that rose to her lips, Aveline cast her eyes, for the first time, on the speaker; and then, to her great surprise, perceived it to be her village acquaintance, Gillian Greenford.

If you venture a remark to your neighbour, there comes a trite rejoinder, and there it ends.

This answer being opened and laughed at, Miss Bangle had only to contrive a rejoinder, which being rather more particular in its tone than the original communication, led on yet again the happy schoolmaster, who branched out into sentiment, "taffeta phrases, silken terms precise," talked of hills and dales and rivulets, and the pleasures of friendship, and concluded by entreating a continuance of the correspondence.

This drew forth as usual a rejoinder from Prof. Cayley, who wrote enclosing a solution of his problem, but not at all to Airy's satisfaction, who replied as follows: "I am not so deeply plunged in the mists of impossibles as to appreciate fully your explanation in this instance, or to think that it is a good criterion for University candidates.

" A general laugh followed this rejoinder, and Uncle Isham grinned with gratified pride in the enduring powers of his charge.

This attack forced from Goldsmith the rejoinder, "Sir, I know of no misery but a jail to which my own imprudences and your letter seem to point.

During the Civil War, Anna Dickinson by her remarkable lecture entitled, "The National Crisis" saved New Hampshire and Connecticut for the Republicans; Anna Carroll not only gave such a crushing rejoinder to Breckinridge's secession speech that the government printed and distributed it, but she also, as is now generally believed, planned the campaign which led to the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson and opened the Mississippi to Vicksburg.

Surely House will be delighted to hear his final rejoinder to DARTMOUTH?

Besideand it is an honour to Elsley Vavasour, amid all his weakness, that he had justice and chivalry enough left to know what nine men out of ten ignorebehind all, let the worst come to the worst, lay one just and terrible rejoinder, which he, though he had been no worse than the average of men, could only answer by silent shame, "At least, sir, I was pure when I came to you!

The remark, however, displeased her, making her feel uneasy, and she did not notice his rejoinder, smiling his pleasure and content"Except yourself and our bank account, my dear."

" Logan overlooked this rejoinder, saying: "Is it his scalp you're after?

" Lucas passed the rejoinder by.

Some severe remarks were made by others in reply, on this and on successive similar occasions, when he introduced the subject, but such treatment provoked no rejoinder from John Woolman, who would quietly resume his seat and weep in silent submission.

And he found at last that his nephew's letter required no rejoinder.

Of course my only object in writing all this here is to give the reader the great treat of seeing Mrs. Browning's "rejoinder."

" Sinclair shrugged away this rejoinder.

Never mind how telling a rejoinder you leave unuttered: never mind your friend's supposing that you are silent from lack of anything to say: let the thing drop, as soon as it is possible without discourtesy: remember "Speech is silvern, but silence is golden"!

"I thank your Excellency for your good counsel," replied the visitor courteously, "and as your Excellency had also a worthy and discerning father, I hope that you will likewise copy so bright an example, and tread in all his footsteps,"an effective though a brutal rejoinder, for the first Lord Stair had betrayed his Sovereign.

" I ventured no rejoinder to these words of self-condemnation.

The ex-minister, bewildered by so extraordinary a reception, attempted no rejoinder, but hastened to quit the royal presence.

In fine, Merman wound up his rejoinder by sincerely thanking the eminent adversary without whose fierce assault he might not have undertaken a revision in the course of which he had met with unexpected and striking confirmations of his own fundamental views.

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  rejoinder