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  • The human was trying to engage a troll in macho repartee!†  (source)
  • We love the plays, the great characters, the fabulous speeches, the witty repartee even in times of duress.†  (source)
  • Chicago delighted in such repartee—for the most part.†  (source)
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  • "Don't be a pain" and "Takes one to know one" are standard repartee among girls, but I go much farther than that.†  (source)
  • Conway enjoyed the measured yet agile repartees which his good-humored ragging of the Chinese very often elicited.†  (source)
  • Kate turned for some quick repartee, but kept on walking, leaving the professor with her luminous smile to think about.†  (source)
  • His Royal Highness had laughed until the tears streamed down his cheeks at Blakeney's foolish yet funny repartees.†  (source)
  • As silken as the sea breeze, as buttery as sunlight, the lithe young women in the thong bikinis pretended to be enthralled by the monosyllabic repartee of two steroid-thickened suitors, the latest in a string of beach-boy Casanovas to take their shot.†  (source)
  • —Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.†  (source)
  • But the situation seemed to call for witty repartee.†  (source)
  • Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.†  (source)
  • He had no repartee but laughed at everything.†  (source)
  • Northerton did not very well relish the sarcasm of Jones; but he thought the provocation was scarce sufficient to justify a blow, or a rascal, or scoundrel, which were the only repartees that suggested themselves.†  (source)
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