ripostein a sentence
- She brushed aside his riposte that the cure is worse than the disease.
- The perennial adolescent riposte.† (source)
- But Fabritius …. he's making a pun on the genre …. a masterly riposte to the whole idea of trompe l'oeil …. because in other passages of the work—the head? the wing?† (source)
- And with that elegant parting riposte, Root followed his squad into the night air.† (source)
- Eragon disengaged with a flourish, thrust, and then riposted as Murtagh parried, dancing away.† (source)
- I went out to get another bottle, but I was thwarted by the ATM, which gave me the much-anticipated riposte: There are insufficient funds in your account.† (source)
- "It was not an odd question," Paul said, and Jessica noted the brittle riposte quality of her training exposed in his voice.† (source)
- He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled.† (source)
- When he struck, I parried in quarte and riposted.† (source)
- "Riposte and remise if you must "In logic long known to be just.† (source)
- You're not my mother had become my most withering riposte.† (source)
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- She forced herself to calmness, thinking: A good riposte, that.† (source)
- He ducked and slashed, parried, riposted, jumped to the side, and stabbed in a whirl of activity.† (source)
- Their blades bound and disengaged, feinted, thrust, parried, riposted.† (source)
- There is a riposte in seconde, desperately dangerous but brilliant—if you bring it off.† (source)
- I tried a headcut, which he parried; and I parried his riposte to my heart and cut at his wrist.† (source)
- His parries widened slightly, but his ripostes became more sudden now, and were interspersed with feints and unexpected attacks.† (source)
- Its shortcoming is that, unless it is done perfectly, it is too late for parry and riposte; you run your own chest against his point.† (source)
- He advanced so fast and smoothly that he seemed to apport and our blades rang as I parried his attack in sixte and riposted, was countered—remise, reprise, beat-and-attack—the phrase ran so smoothly, so long, and in such variation that a spectator might have thought that we were running through Grand Salute.† (source)
- The Prefect's riposte to criticisms echoed by the press-Could not the regulations be modified and made less stringent?† (source)
- "Pace gives life," was the riposte.† (source)
- "It's my belief you wouldn't know one if you were led right up to it by the hand," he riposted quickly; "and in this world you've got to see a thing first, before you can make use of it.† (source)
- The little woman, attacked on a sudden, but never without arms, lighted up in an instant, parried and riposted with a home-thrust, which made Wagg's face tingle with shame; then she returned to her soup with the most perfect calm and a quiet smile on her face.† (source)
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