People who usually kept at a timid distance from everything in the shape of a uniform, were now bandying jests with army lieutenants and police captains.
Some of the worshippers who dropped in to read a page or two of an evening would gather in groups, bandying gossip or talking foreign politics, of which, indeed, they had the most grotesque conceptions.
They were all eager to get to closer quarters with the enemy, and were as merry as crickets, bandying jests with each other in the intervals of toiling at the guns.
Without bandying further words with him I continued my way up the path, which took a rather sharp turn a few yards farther on.
The crew of the boat sat grinning as they heard the smuggler bandying words with their officers, siding probably with the former.
There is no use in bandying words with these scoundrels!
We can't better ourselves bybandying words with such as Master Lord, and it may be some one from the outside will hear you.
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath 90 Forbid this bandyingin Verona streets.
But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees This jarring discord of nobility, This shouldering of each other in the court, This factious bandying of their favourites, But that it doth presage some ill event.
Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath Forbid this bandying in Verona streets.
This is foolish bandying of menaces," said the captain, warmly.
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.
Mephistopheles is here in his element and joins in the dances with eagerness, bandying jokes with the old hags and flirting with the younger witches.
During all this time there is a bandying of hot words, threats, and imprecations on both sides.
A battle of arrows then takes place; there is a bandying of fierce threats, taunts, and challenges, and the attacking party endeavors to set the roof on fire with burning arrows.
Without wasting time in bandying arguments with the mudbake, I sally forth in search of the others, and meet them just outside the gate; they are returning from hiding the money in the ruins.
We have seen, and sickened to see, hordes of schoolboys of ten and twelve years bandying as nicknames, with boys whose parents belonged to the Establishment, the terms of polemic controversy.
Then, as if to break away from bandying of compliments, he asked: "But what were the rumors you spoke of?
I ought to be above bandying words with you; nor would I if it did not take my mind from my hurt.
Peculiarly conspicuous in the bandying of these threats were Philip Cross and Walter Butler, who had eagerly identified themselves with the most violent party of the Tories.
Lord Beaumanoir, still a bachelor, always hovered about her, feeding on her laughing words with a mild melancholy, and sometimes bandying repartee with a kind of tender and stately despair.
At all events, she was in too great a hurry to remain bandying words with the man; and she accordingly hastened to ascend to the second floor, which, we should observe by the way, is the most fashionable in Parisian houses.
But let us not remain here bandying words, which may only lead to an useless quarrel.
I have heard much of your career; have talked with those who have seen you in that hell at Monte Carlo, bandying jests with young profligates and blear-eyed old men, more dangerous than the younger ones because better skilled in evil.
But while she was bandying words, P'ing Erh happened to bring her another string of cash prompted by the apprehension that her capital might not suffice to meet her wants.
While bandying words, they perused her two stanzas.
While bandying words, they entered the pavilion in a body.
He feared, he said, that it was only a device to make the French jealous, and after much word-bandying between them, the ambassador flatly asked Henry what he wanted the Emperor to do.
