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  • Churchill's famous rejoinder to Chamberlain's claim that he had obtained peace with honor at the Munich pact: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war."
  • He opened his mouth with every intention of making the perfect rejoinder— the sort of remark that having cut one man to the quick would be quoted by others for years to come.†   (source)
  • Indeed, for almost any utterance that a rabbit in this dreadful situation could find to make, Vervain was unthinkingly ready with one or other of a stock of jeering rejoinders.†   (source)
  • And a blurred reply met blurred rejoinders and laughter.†   (source)
  • Naturally there is no known rejoinder to this.†   (source)
  • As I was about to make an indignant rejoinder, he said, with a sudden change of subject: "Do you know, Hastings, I cannot rid my mind of the impression that already, in our conversations this afternoon, something was said that was significant.†   (source)
  • She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said.†   (source)
  • "You've forfeited your rights to own that dog," was the rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "Dat Buck two devils," was Francois's rejoinder.†   (source)
  • 'I shan't tell you,' was Peter's unexpected rejoinder.†   (source)
  • On looking back, I realize that the remark was too obvious to make rejoinder necessary.†   (source)
  • "Till goodness knows what time and distance," was the sarcastic rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "Oh, really," was the haughty rejoinder.†   (source)
  • There was the smallest vein of scorn in her words of rejoinder: "Have you saved yourself?†   (source)
  • "I do, you bet," was the frank rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Wilson had no rejoinder for this remark.†   (source)
  • "Oh, ay! and when was that?" came the sarcastic rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "That depends on the line of study taken," said Will, also getting a tone of rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "What are you in a fright about now?" was the calm rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "I neither want any thanks, nor merit any," was the careless rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "Madam, I should like some tea," was the sole rejoinder she got.†   (source)
  • "Sing out for him!" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices.†   (source)
  • There was nothing crude in this rejoinder; it had been thoroughly well considered.†   (source)
  • The rejoinder to this was the first shrug.†   (source)
  • 'It depends on you, Mr Nickleby, whether that's all or not,' was the rejoinder.†   (source)
  • 'What do you mean by that?' was the short rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Wolzogen was about to make a rejoinder, but Kutuzov interrupted him.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit was at a loss for any more distinct rejoinder at the moment than 'Ha—well?'†   (source)
  • 'That's not Mr Nickleby's voice, surely?' was the rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.†   (source)
  • I don't like him," she added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows.†   (source)
  • 'No matter! what do you mean, sir?' was the tart rejoinder.†   (source)
  • To yourself and your merits,' was Mr Dorrit's rejoinder.†   (source)
  • His listeners, who had held their breath during Herr Settembrini's grand rejoinder, breathed out again now.†   (source)
  • "Oh, DINNER——" he mocked her; but she left him with the smiling rejoinder: "Dinner on board, remember; we'll put it off till nine if you like."†   (source)
  • The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke's arraignment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everywhere.†   (source)
  • "It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she's a meddlesome old gossip," was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder.†   (source)
  • By every law of nature and sex a kiss was the only rejoinder that fitted the mood and the moment, under the suasion of which Sue's undemonstrative regard of him might not inconceivably have changed its temperature.†   (source)
  • His revisions only superficially disturbed the pretty contrast of honor and shabbiness apparent in the affidavits of the opposing side, particularly since he did not have at his disposal the Zutawskian party's duplicating machinery, but could only circulate a few typed carbon copies of his rejoinder.†   (source)
  • "You'd think I ought to let Anne go to the moon if she took the notion, I've no doubt" was Marilla's amiable rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Miss Lavinia was going on to make some rejoinder, when Miss Clarissa, who appeared to be incessantly beset by a desire to refer to her brother Francis, struck in again: 'If Dora's mama,' she said, 'when she married our brother Francis, had at once said that there was not room for the family at the dinner-table, it would have been better for the happiness of all parties.'†   (source)
  • "He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder.†   (source)
  • What Miss Anne says, is very true," was Mr Shepherd's rejoinder, and "Oh! certainly," was his daughter's; but Sir Walter's remark was, soon afterwards— "The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it."†   (source)
  • He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Poyser would probably have brought her rejoinder to a further climax, if every one's attention had not at this moment been called to the other end of the table, where the lyricism, which had at first only manifested itself by David's sotto voce performance of "My love's a rose without a thorn," had gradually assumed a rather deafening and complex character.†   (source)
  • Mr Pancks's short and sharp rejoinder, confirmed by the sudden outstretching of his coaly hand, was most expressive and convincing.†   (source)
  • And on Isabel's making no rejoinder he went on to enquire whether it took his lordship five days to indite a letter.†   (source)
  • Feeling probably that the conversation was taking a tone too serious for a drawing room, Vronsky made no rejoinder, but by way of trying to change the conversation, he smiled brightly, and turned to the ladies.†   (source)
  • —ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters' reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.†   (source)
  • Ralph knew what to think of his father's impatience; but, making no rejoinder, he offered his mother his arm.†   (source)
  • Above the sneers of critics at the obvious defects of this procedure must ever stand its one crushing rejoinder: in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South; they wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of the black people of the land, and they made Tuskegee possible.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tristram made no immediate rejoinder, but at last she said, with a smile which, in so far as it was a forced one, was less successfully simulated than such smiles, on her lips, usually were; "Are you very sure that you would have been happy?"†   (source)
  • But there was no impatience in his rejoinder—none, at least, save what was expressed in a little appealing sigh.†   (source)
  • Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Bazarov at first stirred a little in his bed, then he uttered the following rejoinder: 'You're still a fool, my boy, I see.†   (source)
  • Miss Price, in rejoinder, congratulated herself upon not being possessed of the envious feeling of other people; whereupon Miss Squeers made some general remark touching the danger of associating with low persons; in which Miss Price entirely coincided: observing that it was very true indeed, and she had thought so a long time.†   (source)
  • And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it.†   (source)
  • "You shall not get off in that way," rejoined Stryver, shouldering the rejoinder at him; "no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you—and I tell you to your face to do you good—that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society.†   (source)
  • I have gone through the treatises of Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, answers, and rejoinders published respecting the skeleton of Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit in the Dauphine, in 1613.†   (source)
  • At first, in rejoinder to what she had said, it seemed to her that he would break out into greater violence.†   (source)
  • By my word! there is something singular about you," said he: "you have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet (except, by-the-bye, when they are directed piercingly to my face; as just now, for instance); and when one asks you a question, or makes a remark to which you are obliged to reply, you rap out a round rejoinder, which, if not blunt, is at least brusque.†   (source)
  • Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder, "I own that to be able to regard you as the future mistress of Kellynch, the future Lady Elliot, to look forward and see you occupying your dear mother's place, succeeding to all her rights, and all her popularity, as well as to all her virtues, would be the highest possible gratification to me.†   (source)
  • To this, for some time, he made no rejoinder; he continued to give his chief attention to his work, which was of a sort that would brook no negligence.†   (source)
  • Caleb made no rejoinder, but presently lowered his spectacles, drew up his chair to the desk, and said, "Deuce take the bill—I wish it was at Hanover!†   (source)
  • But he said nothing more, and as she made no rejoinder they sat some time in a stillness which seemed to contradict his promise of entertainment.†   (source)
  • Mr. Featherstone grunted: he could not deny that an ordinary sort of girl like her might be expected to be useful, so he thought of another rejoinder, disagreeable enough to be always apropos.†   (source)
  • With this rejoinder, and waiting for no further discussion, Sir Mulberry Hawk yawned, and very leisurely turned back.†   (source)
  • Kutuzov made no rejoinder or remark.†   (source)
  • Mr Sparkler, finding himself stunned by the words thus heaped upon his inoffensive head, made a brief though pertinent rejoinder; the same being neither more nor less than that he had long perceived Miss Fanny to have no nonsense about her, and that he had no doubt of its being all right with his Governor.†   (source)
  • He looked compassionately at Balashev, and as soon as the latter tried to make some rejoinder hastily interrupted him.†   (source)
  • To this Ralph deigned no other rejoinder than a harsh smile, and a glance at the shrivelled old creature before him, which were, however, sufficiently expressive.†   (source)
  • His son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion.†   (source)
  • In rejoinder to this sally, old Arthur again raised his hands, again chuckled, and again ejaculated 'What a man it is!' which done, he dragged the low chair a little nearer to Ralph's high stool, and looking upwards into his immovable face, said, 'What would you say to me, if I was to tell you that I was—that I was—going to be married?'†   (source)
  • So little was his rejoinder appreciated that Napoleon did not notice it at all and naively asked Balashev through what towns the direct road from there to Moscow passed.†   (source)
  • To these remonstrances Mr Timberry deigned no other rejoinder than striking his chest and gasping for breath, and giving many other indications of being still the victim of indisposition—for a man must not make himself too cheap either on the stage or off—while Mr Crummles, who knew full well that he would be the subject of the forthcoming toast, sat gracefully in his chair with his arm thrown carelessly over the back, and now and then lifted his glass to his mouth and drank a little…†   (source)
  • Besides this, the remarks of all except Pfuel had one common trait that had not been noticeable at the council of war in 1805: there was now a panic fear of Napoleon's genius, which, though concealed, was noticeable in every rejoinder.†   (source)
  • HER opinion was of no consequence, it didn't matter what SHE said, with many other rejoinders of the same class.†   (source)
  • "And never saw I a better case of the right hand not knowin' what the left is up to," came the quick rejoinder.†   (source)
  • At the risk of her own, was the telling rejoinder of his interlocutor, none the less effective for the moderate and measured tone in which it was delivered.†   (source)
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