It was his form of repartee for all he had suffered at the hands of this incomprehensible pair.
Miss Charity was more entertained by this repartee than one would have supposed likely, considering its advanced age and simple character.
Mrs Gamp, deriving from this exhibition of repartee some clue to the state of Mrs Prig's feelings, instantly conducted her upstairs; deeming that the sight of pickled salmon might work a softening change.
The triumphs of Frederic in the war of repartee were of much the same kind.
The repartee had been simple and the caresses nothing more than a slight touch on waist or arm, repulsed by her with more alarm than prudery.
Washington had fairly teemed with her brilliant repartee and other bright sayings, and upon this occasion she was, if possible, more than ever in her element.
She was gifted with a keen sense of humor, and her talent inrepartee was proverbial.
She was, I have understood, a great belle with a power ofrepartee which bordered upon genius.
She was not only a skilled performer upon the piano and harp, but also a linguist of considerable proficiency, while her grace of manner and brilliant powers of repartee added greatly to her social charms.
Coming to Middletown fresh from college, his sparkling wit and ready reparteeendeared him to a large circle of admiring friends.
Upon which the whole company broke out into an immoderate fit of laughter; and my lord, who loves a repartee dearly, came round and bussed me.
The repartee which sprang to her lips was somewhat feeble.
He had crossed Placid Brook, by a fallen log; he had climbed trees, hunted for last year's nuts, and fought battles of repartee with other chipmunks.
Nan-ch'uan, for his own part, seems to have recognized in this quizzical repartee all the makings of a great Ch'an worthy.
Unlike the repartee of the absurdist Lin-chi masters, his exchanges are not deliberately illogical.
Laughing girls crowded into ramshackle carts exchanged gayrepartee in the passing.
The repartee dragged with Sally to-day, almost to sullenness, and when she began to grow weary in the early afternoon, there was no reserve strength on which she could fall back.
Then the soldier, Armed with strange maxims and a carpet-bag, Cock-Shaw in military ironies, And blowing off the bubbling repartee With chocolate in his mouth.
And he says whichever of us guesses the reparteeend of it goes to his house o' Wednesday night to his daughter's birthday party.
When a casual word annoyed him, his repartee flashed out like lightning.
There was no appreciable interval of time between the provoking word and the repartee which it provoked.
With what battledore and shuttle-cock of mirth and repartee they would be sent sailing and spinning in Rhoda's world.
Even in Rhoda's world repartee and mirth might be displayed rather than acted upon, and Rhoda might find herself, as a result of le beau geste, less favourably placed for the creation of another drawing-room than she imagined.
By me no more in masking guise Shall thoughtless repartee be spoken; My mind a hopeless ruin lies-- My soul is dark, my heart is broken!
Bartrow was not yet fit to measure swords of repartee with any one, least of all with Miss Van Vetter, and the quicksand of speechlessness engulfed him.
He is the mine blacksmith, a perfect Sheridan for wit and repartee when he is sober, and a maniac of maniacs when he is drunk,--which happens whenever Dick relaxes his vigilance for a single hour.
The duc de Richelieu preserved his coolness and talent at repartee in the most trivial circumstances.
It constitutes more than half the point of a brilliant repartee or play upon words.
The bonny Scot had given full scope to the play of this small artillery of city wit, by halting his stately pace, and viewing grimly, first the one assailant, and then the other, as if menacing either repartee or more violent revenge.
Her conversation with young Minty was as insipid as himself, but occasionally Stanton's cynical banter evoked something like repartee and wit.
Therefore she gave Sibley back his badinage in kind; and in repartee that was bright and sharp as well as reckless, she answered the compliments of other gay young fellows who also gathered around her.
Joyous greetings and merry repartee made the scene pleasant to witness even by one who, like Van Berg, had no part in it.
As for comedy, reparteeis one of its chiefest graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chace of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed.
He did it all so well that, when he gave an instance of some of the broad Hibernian repartee he had heard, the Doctor actually laughed audibly.
He frowned upon the victim of his delicaterepartee with make-believe defiance.
Instead of introducing this siege-train of argument into their plays, modern dramatists have preferred the lighter weapons of verbal pleasantry and repartee which make what is called "pointed dialogue.
