" Mrs. Hatchard, checking a retort, eyed him grimly.

But, before we conclude, we are desirous ... to convey to Mr. Smith a little salutary advice ... to remind him that unmeasured severity of invective against others, will naturally produce, at the first favourable opportunity, a retort of similar harshness upon himself; and that unless he feels himself completely invulnerable, the conduct which he has hitherto pursued, is not only uncharitable and violent, but foolish.

" The face of Thirteen grew darker still, and for a moment he seemed to meditate an angry retort; but he thought better of it, contenting himself with an impatient movement and a mutter: "All in good time; Number One is not here yet.

Presently we made out Percy Darrow, dressed in overalls, his sleeves rolled back, and carrying a retort.

The rationalistic objection to this suppression of what seems to be of the essence or integrity of matrimony is obvious enough, and yet finds many a retort even in the realm of nature, where the passage to a higher grade of life so often means the stultifying of functions proper to the lower.

" Penelope flushed to the roots of her hair, but suppressed the retort which would have been in keeping with the provocation.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen.

In the next year we find him making a happy retort on Pitt, who had somewhat vulgarly alluded to his being a dramatic author.

" "Reckon yew may be about right, stranger," he said, falling back with tolerable good-humour; and, to do them justice, the bystanders seemed to think the retort no worse than the provocation deserved.

Here Johnson, with that quickness of recollection which distinguished him so eminently, gave the Middlesex Patriot an admirable retort upon his own ground.

" The man growled some retort and left, closing the door heavily behind him, while Ronicky Doone breathed freely again for the first time.

This brought a retort from Herbert, that time was when Mrs Hardman pleaded another's cause.

The gas company's own servant, however, only produced 80 cubic feet per gallon, which they attributed to his want of experience in knowing the proper heat at which to work the retorts.

Not one of them drew a retort from him, or as much as a farewell nod.

Polly went on, ignoring the retort.

They heard the new boy retort, "Who said I tied your clo'es?"

My oven would hold four retorts; and the same fuel would heat this number just as well as the three.

" "You'd no business to lend it," said Drill, interrupting the constable's indignant retort; "especially for Sims to pretend that he had stolen it from Cooper.

It has been shrewdly objected against the arguments of the "affable Archangel" in the later books of Paradise Lost that argument by its nature admits of being answered: and the fatal fallacy of putting human speech into a divine mouth, as in the above passage, is that it invites retort.

The cause of that fierce blow she told me not; Be what it may, I know full well, my lord, It could not merit such a harsh retort To wife whose loyalty and troth to you Have been the marvel of the court; whose name, Her beauty notwithstanding, has been held As high from stain as she has e'er held yours.

She stood there sullenly while Injun Jim berated her in the Indian tongue, and once she muttered a retort that made the old man's fingers go groping over the blankets for a weapon; whereat the young squaw laughed contemptuously and went out, sending Casey a side glance and a fleeting smile as full of coquetry as ever white woman could employ.

Those of us who have strong national pride and a sense of the eternal fitness of things, are obliged to hear such things in shamed silence, and offer no retort, for there can be no possible excuse for mortifying lapses of etiquette.

" "So does a woman," she made pointed retort.

But when that flippant sheet, known as Rees's American Encyclopedia, comes out with a violent attack upon PUNCHINELLO'S past life and present course, the assault is such as would provoke a retort from any honest man.

He was still a little afraid of the said giant, who had shortly before administered a vigorous retort to his countryman Blair.