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  • "Or destroy it," Kohler quipped.†   (source)
  • The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs.†   (source)
  • 'Well, that's all right then,' quipped Holly, threading her way through the mass of wires.†   (source)
  • But he called on the day we were printing, so instead of writing the full story, we put in a small quip and said more to follow next month.†   (source)
  • This time Ruth heard me, but she must have thought I'd meant it as some kind of joke, because she laughed half-heartedly, then made some quip of her own.†   (source)
  • Yet almost daily she offered quips and comments about me not attending school.†   (source)
  • "So how about them Dolphins," I quipped.†   (source)
  • "He didn't throw you out," Simmon quipped as I returned to the table.†   (source)
  • He's had to be quick," Jaimito has quipped.†   (source)
  • "The bus isn't bad," one quipped, "except for the snakes."†   (source)
  • "Maybe the gold diggers," David quips.†   (source)
  • Josh's quips and comments were always getting him into trouble.†   (source)
  • Convinced now that the woman was joking, the guard cheerfully quipped, "Three blocks under the lagoon."†   (source)
  • More than 300 sharpshooters—"not all of them so sharp," quipped one official—took aim on some 5,000 birds released on the Memorial Park soccer field.†   (source)
  • While on a lantern-slide lecture tour of the United States, it was he who so notoriously quipped, "Because it is there" when an irritating newspaperman demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest.†   (source)
  • In my nervousness, though, the quip comes out surly.†   (source)
  • It became a kind of masochistic status symbol to be "done" or "buried" (that quip had started even at Oxford) by Annie Graves.†   (source)
  • He sometimes forgets he's an adult," Will quipped.†   (source)
  • Shaunee quipped.†   (source)
  • "I know something about that," Cedric says, proud to get off a quick quip.†   (source)
  • He'd pause to receive a hug from a nurse's aide, then to exchange quips in Haitian Creole with a janitor.†   (source)
  • "Well, now," Mr. Lukens quipped, as though speaking to himself "Someone quite important must be down that hall...."†   (source)
  • "Don't tell me I'm stepping on some interoffice romance?" she quipped.†   (source)
  • I'm tempted to make a quip about requiring dinner and a movie before getting so kinky, but I don't.†   (source)
  • Whether Benjamin Franklin quipped "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately" is impossible to know, just as there is no way to confirm the much-repeated story that the diminutive John Hancock wrote his name large so the King might read it without his spectacles.†   (source)
  • She must have been disappointed that I wasn't nearly as clever with political quips as her usual companion.†   (source)
  • "Attacked?" quipped Johan.†   (source)
  • He rinsed his hands in the sink, and as he reached for the towel, he quipped, "Unless, of course, you're interested in trying fresh blood."†   (source)
  • "Well, this is a fancy reception, isn't it?" she quips with an American accent.†   (source)
  • "A refusal to answer the truth is as good as a lie," Tappan quipped with a grin.†   (source)
  • "Did you get the license plate of the car that hit me?" quipped Cesar.†   (source)
  • The quip was a national scandal.†   (source)
  • I'm not afraid of that," she quipped, as we folded and wrapped my quilts.†   (source)
  • He spoke briefly with each of the warriors he met, inquired whether they were being fairly treated, commiserated about their sore feet and short rations, and sometimes exchanged a quip or two.†   (source)
  • And you shoot off your mouth, all your sarcastic little quips that you think are so funny.†   (source)
  • "Once a Chang-kee, always a Chang-kee," she quipped.†   (source)
  • As one historian quips: "The gods were on the side of the best swimmers."†   (source)
  • And then Will Jr came into it, defending his father, and she made quips and smashed every word he said and fought him with all the viciousness she knew how to muster—she knew plenty—and all at once Luke, the one perpetually caught in the middle—was defending her, talking about symbolism.†   (source)
  • "There's always hope," his mom quipped, making Sophia laugh.   (source)
    quipped = responded in a clever way
  • But even as the Count was delivering this quip, he was reminded by the expression on the Bishop's face that one should generally avoid quips in which a man's marriage played a part….   (source)
    quip = clever, witty remark
  • Or so the Count intended to quip.   (source)
    quip = make a clever, witty remark
  • But even as the Count was delivering this quip, he was reminded by the expression on the Bishop's face that one should generally avoid quips in which a man's marriage played a part….   (source)
    quips = clever, witty remarks
  • Foaly did what he was told without a single quip.†   (source)
  • "Tourist reproduction," Langdon quipped.†   (source)
  • She was afraid that if he made a quip, the goddess would do something to him.†   (source)
  • And he responded as he always did: with a quip.†   (source)
  • "You got a ready-made family now," she quipped.†   (source)
  • "Though much better dressed," Littlefinger quipped.†   (source)
  • "A naked knight, it would seem," quipped Littlefinger.†   (source)
  • "Dark nasties ...like bags?" quipped Connor, poking his head out from the French doors.†   (source)
  • "Your Smith must have been Rhoynish," Illyrio quipped.†   (source)
  • "Pretty much," quipped Connor, staring at his tongue in a small mirror.†   (source)
  • "Roses from lower on the bush," quipped Elinor, who was witty and willowy.†   (source)
  • It was all their mother's doing," she quipped.†   (source)
  • "I was hoping he would go to Esalen," Kate quipped.†   (source)
  • Varys looked down on him and sighed, but Littlefinger made a quip.†   (source)
  • "Let the contractor pick the day," they quipped.†   (source)
  • You'll be collecting splinters on the bench soon," quipped Pepe.†   (source)
  • "I feared we'd never escape," Tyrion quipped.†   (source)
  • Ever since her quip at the motel, he's been watching her closely.†   (source)
  • "You know you should never believe what you read in the Star," I quipped.†   (source)
  • "Figure of speech, Davie," quipped Connor with a wink.†   (source)
  • "What can I say?" quipped Max, petting the female lymrill, who now gnawed placidly on his shoelace.†   (source)
  • I'd rather watch yours," quipped the leader with an insolent lift of his chin.†   (source)
  • I'll raise high and hit hard with it," he quipped.†   (source)
  • I wish all integration was this easy," quips Cedric, nearing the proof's finale.†   (source)
  • To his disgust, Meredith chuckled at Henry's cruel quip.†   (source)
  • I'd still rather have Don Larsen," quipped Enrique.†   (source)
  • "To his face we call him Lord Eunuch," quipped Littlefinger.†   (source)
  • "From student to slavemaster in a few short years," quipped Nigel.†   (source)
  • A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged.†   (source)
  • "Never knew you to be such a show-stopper," he quipped.†   (source)
  • He smiled archly, as if he had just thought up this quip he had been making for weeks.†   (source)
  • Well, I ain't complaining," quipped the Agent, producing a deck of cards.†   (source)
  • With a distracted voice, he quipped, "Every single bloody thing you saw was by his doing."†   (source)
  • Mami often quipped that Ralph probably made more money than Papi on his fellowship.†   (source)
  • Well, at least he's insecure," Max quipped.†   (source)
  • If I had a shiny lune for every time I've been threatened ...," he quipped.†   (source)
  • "You call that music?" he quips.†   (source)
  • No more science quips.†   (source)
  • Vittoria quipped, her voice unruffled.†   (source)
  • Kohler quipped.†   (source)
  • "I envy your father all these fine friends," Lannister quipped, "but I do not quite see the purpose of this, Lady Stark."†   (source)
  • When they return they make bathroom jokes, quips about wetting your pants and running out of toilet paper, eyeing me cunningly while they do so.†   (source)
  • Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States.†   (source)
  • "Us old guys will do that," he quipped.†   (source)
  • Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory.†   (source)
  • Now I know I'm dreaming," I quipped.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger had once quipped that Ser Bonifer must have gelded the riders too, so spotless was their repute.†   (source)
  • "I can see that, son," quipped Nolan.†   (source)
  • "Now here's a sight to see," he quipped as they were emptying their bladders, "a dwarf and a duck, making the mighty Rhoyne that much mightier."†   (source)
  • I quip.†   (source)
  • "Well," quipped Nolan, giving a casual wave of his hand to slowly extinguish the bonfire, "it's no secret anymore, is it, Tweedy?†   (source)
  • "In gold or cheese?" quipped Tyrion.†   (source)
  • "But it's a clean slate," Felicity quips, and I can't even be troubled to give her a roll of my eyes.†   (source)
  • "That War Admiral is a better horse than I thought he was," he quipped as he walked into the shed row.†   (source)
  • They can run fast, but they can't outrun this," he quips, lovingly patting the 9-millimeter pistol on his hip.†   (source)
  • He continued to endure horrific injuries, falling so often that he quipped about having a "semiannual comeback."†   (source)
  • But Stevron had died whilst campaigning with the Young Wolf in the west—"of waiting, no doubt," Lame Lothar had quipped when the raven brought them the news—and his sons and grandsons were a different sort of Frey.†   (source)
  • "Yes, well, you were a scaredy-pants and needed soothing," quipped Nigel, setting down a brown bag and a stack of papers.†   (source)
  • As he places a silver medal around Cedric's neck, Barry quips, "Sure is nice to see a young man up here.†   (source)
  • other guy," Cesar quipped.†   (source)
  • "None of them," he quipped.†   (source)
  • Tastes better when it's free," he quips, as he plucks off the pickles and glances up at Chiniqua quietly slipping one of her two cartons of chicken nuggets into her jacket pocket for later before cracking open the other one.†   (source)
  • A quip from Mr. Sherlock Holmes.†   (source)
  • Guess I'll stick to whistling," quipped David, glancing at the stump where his right hand used to be.†   (source)
  • It's not a vacation," Max quipped, throwing another pair of woolly socks into his pack; in the wilderness, one could never have enough woolly socks.†   (source)
  • People stopped to watch as he sang: "There once was a ravel named Kvothe Whose tongue was quick at quipping.†   (source)
  • In a moment, he strode away, and the doctor turned to Falstaff, reading the man by his padded belly, briskly, with relief: "Now, Tragedy, begone, and to our dell Bring antic Jollity with cap and bells: Falstaff, thou prince of jesters, lewd old man Who surfeited a royal prince with mirth, And swayed a kingdom with his wanton quips—" Embarrassed by the growing undertone of laughter, Doc Hines squinted around with a tough grin, gave a comical hitch to his padded figure, and whispered a hoarse aside to Eugene: "Hear that, Hal?†   (source)
  • Athelstan Beasely, the wit of the architectural profession, the court jester of the A.G.A., who never seemed to be building anything, but organized all the charity balls, wrote in his column entitled "Quips and Quirks" in the A.G.A. Bulletin: "Well, lads and lassies, here's a fairy tale with a moral: seems there was, once upon a time, a little boy with hair the color of a Hallowe'en pumpkin, who thought that he was better than all you common boys and girls.†   (source)
  • The entire band repeated this quip in a voice of thunder, clapping their hands furiously.†   (source)
  • I'll treat him to...one of my quips!†   (source)
  • It was impossible to reply with a quip or some other evasion, as was Hans Castorp's usual method—though he did weigh the possibility for just a moment.†   (source)
  • They were off for a drive—she, looking about and noticing fine clothing, the young men voicing those silly pleasantries and weak quips which pass for humor in coy circles.†   (source)
  • Forthwith he bent all his faculties to the task of discovery, unmindful of the singing of the gift-bringers and the quips of his associates.†   (source)
  • The same Signor Jupe was to 'enliven the varied performances at frequent intervals with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts.'†   (source)
  • A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.†   (source)
  • For some years Wilson had been privately at work on a whimsical almanac, for his amusement—a calendar, with a little dab of ostensible philosophy, usually in ironical form, appended to each date; and the judge thought that these quips and fancies of Wilson's were neatly turned and cute; so he carried a handful of them around one day, and read them to some of the chief citizens.†   (source)
  • The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere.†   (source)
  • He took his ordinary at a boilingcook's and if he had but gotten into him a mess of broken victuals or a platter of tripes with a bare tester in his purse he could always bring himself off with his tongue, some randy quip he had from a punk or whatnot that every mother's son of them would burst their sides.†   (source)
  • No quips now, Pistol.†   (source)
  • what, in thy quips and thy quiddities?†   (source)
  • When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.†   (source)
  • If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself: this is called the Quip modest.†   (source)
  • Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?†   (source)
  • The first, the Retort courteous; the second, the Quip modest; the third, the Reply churlish; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with circumstance; the seventh, the Lie direct.†   (source)
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