I am ignorant that--" "Do you bandylooks and words with me, my lord?
We learn from Plutarch, that it was a favorite amusement with Antony and Cleopatra to ramble through the streets at night, and bandy ribald jests with the populace of Alexandria.
She was not made to bandy wit with lords, and tread courtly measures with plumed and warlike cavaliers, like Beatrice; but to dance on the green sward, and "murmur among living brooks a music sweeter than their own.
But the crowd strenuously maintained that Bandy Legs ought to be somewhere above them in the atmosphere; for it was a traditionary fact that the people from the Duff came ashore when the sun was high overhead.
Mrs. Ebley would not bandy further words; their points of view were too different.
Bandy the Banded Lemming is the most interesting, because he is the one member of the entire family who changes the color of his coat.
He is very much like Bandy save that he is all brown and does not change his coat in winter.
Legginess is bad enough in a woman, but bandy legginess is impossible.
The girls bandy "chaff" with their disguised lovers, but the "chaff" is what their mothers might hear.
Cressida is never modest even when she is most prudish; she understands a jest, even bold and libertine ones, and she will bandy them with enjoyment.
The roads were so muddy that we had occasionally to get help, to push the bandy along.
More than once the bandy bumped down with me, and one bullock ran away up the road, leaving the other beside himself with fear.
As I was going to sell my eggs, I met a man with bandy legs; Bandy legs and crooked toes, I tript up his heels, and he fell on his nose.
It is not for me to bandy question with your Highness, otherwise I would ask whether you also mean to deny the scarce less unworthy, though less bloody, attack upon the house in Couvrefew Street?
And, bowing many times, their heads betwixt their rather bandy legs, they left him.
Nod stooped low on the smooth rock, and under the tatters of Thumb's metal-hooked coat stared out between his brother's bandy legs.
Those blamed calves was on the Bandy Creek range, too.
I did not come here, sir, to bandy words; and I ended my mission by delivering the letter intrusted to me.
I do not come to bandy phrases, and in view of your imminent peril, I cannot quite understand your irony.
Those bandy legs of his were just the thing to walk a deck in bad weather, but on the racetrack!
She was tempted to laugh at those bandy legs; but no--she liked him better in that costume than in the tarred and pitchy clothes he came home from work in at night, tired out and stupid from toil.
Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my Traine, To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, And in conclusion, to oppose the bolt Against my comming in.
We do not propose to bandy words with him, because he is a contemptible coward, and dare not impose upon any one but a little boy.
His broad back had become slightly bowed, and his finely chiselled legs had a warped and bandy appearance.
Do not bandy gibes, no matter how witty you may know yourself to be in repartee.
We cannot," says Emerson, "bandy words with Nature, or deal with her as we deal with persons.
