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  • "He's actually a high school drop-out whose real name isn't even Fazlullah," my father retorted, but they wouldn't listen.†   (source)
  • Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.†   (source)
  • "Your mom bought them for me," I retorted without breaking my stride.†   (source)
  • Ken and Bob had this smart, competitive way of joking where one would make a wisecrack and the other would have a comeback and the first would have a retort to the comeback.†   (source)
  • "If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted.†   (source)
  • "Won't do no good," retorted Mr. Turner.†   (source)
  • And why shouldn't I be fit?" she retorted, peering at him through the fading light.†   (source)
  • Once I'd reached the talking-back age, I used to say, I never asked to be born, as if that were a clinching argument; and Reenie would retort, Of course you did.†   (source)
  • "I didn't keep anybody anything," Marina retorted.†   (source)
  • Four, standing in the doorway, speaks before Peter can retort.†   (source)
  • If I asked him if he was warm enough, he would retort that he was quite capable of letting me know if he needed another blanket.†   (source)
  • Minho started to retort, but Newt elbowed him in the gut.†   (source)
  • But I can already hear Commander Jameson's retort.†   (source)
  • She was watching a pale blue fluid move slowly through a tube from a beaker to a retort.†   (source)
  • Kate retorted fiercely as Number Two stopped the car near the guardhouse.†   (source)
  • Bud is gold, I retorted, and if digging him out of the sadness he was in when I met him was what she meant, then, yes, I was a gold digger.†   (source)
  • When Chaol didn't bother retorting, Dorian asked: "Do you think someone wants to kill all the Champions?"†   (source)
  • "The winter loves me," he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, "I mean as much as you can say a season can love.†   (source)
  • But instead of retorting swiftly, snapping back like Kilorn would, he falls silent.†   (source)
  • Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling up her breasts for wrestling," I retort.†   (source)
  • I quickly put the box down next to him on the bench and displayed my retort.†   (source)
  • "So eat around it," he retorts.†   (source)
  • "What, and I can't?" the Colonel retorted.†   (source)
  • "Some of it belongs to Miss Simpkins, I'll have you know!" she retorted angrily.†   (source)
  • For a long time phosphorus was obtained by vigorously heating the residue from evaporating urine in an earth retort the neck of which was submerged in water.†   (source)
  • Piper wanted to make a withering retort, but her anger turned to panic.†   (source)
  • "For goodness' sake, give it a rest," Mary retorted.†   (source)
  • "You can be sure I wouldn't have," he retorted, "had I any idea you could swim."†   (source)
  • I retorted.†   (source)
  • Noody retorted.†   (source)
  • Enrique retorts.†   (source)
  • 'Big deal,' retorted Foaly, and Holly could almost see him shrug.†   (source)
  • "Children don't have heart attacks," Annie retorted.†   (source)
  • "And my shoes are made of gold," retorted Eragon.†   (source)
  • "How gracious of you," I say, just a whiff of breath, the way I say most retorts: a puff of perfume from a rank atomizer.†   (source)
  • I retorted.†   (source)
  • I opened my mouth to retort.†   (source)
  • Lamia opened her mouth to retort, frowned, and said nothing.†   (source)
  • Viviana retorted.†   (source)
  • "I've been exhilarated in better ways," Mack retorted sarcastically.†   (source)
  • There were old clocks and vases, mortars and retorts, knives and dolls,quill pens and bookends, octants and sextants, compasses and barometers.†   (source)
  • "Come in!" my father retorted, with impatience rising in his craw.†   (source)
  • You're killing yourself and everyone else," Nathaniel retorts.†   (source)
  • "And you're not sick," she retorts.†   (source)
  • Luma didn't have much of a retort.†   (source)
  • Alec muttered a retort into his coffee.†   (source)
  • It's not just that," Amaranta retorted.†   (source)
  • "Papa's thousands of miles away," Yetta retorted, but she telt shame coursing through her.†   (source)
  • Mam's cry: "You spoiled him rotten, and now he'll never be a man"—and Gram's retort: "You keep pecking at him and soon he won't come home at all."†   (source)
  • A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.†   (source)
  • "I may not be perfect, but I am nothing like you," I would retort.†   (source)
  • "Of course she is," my father retorts.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo suppressed whatever rude retort was on his tongue.†   (source)
  • "You're the one who wanted me home more," Al retorted.†   (source)
  • Of course, you may retort, as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire, that if I am correct in what I am saying, one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test.†   (source)
  • Chauncey had a profane retort on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed it.†   (source)
  • His fingers began gliding up and down my inner thigh, making it difficult for me to think of a retort.†   (source)
  • This argument went round and round, and I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.†   (source)
  • "Look for it on the bench next to the retort," shouted the magus at the disappearing figure.†   (source)
  • As we talked, a raucous group of women surrounded Harper, teasing her and thanking her in Swahili, all at the same time—and she was laughing and retorting in rapid-fire Swahili.†   (source)
  • Clarke opened her mouth to launch a retort, but the words disappeared as she watched Thalia lean over, suddenly coughing.†   (source)
  • It does when you're stuck out here waiting for someone who is selfish, ungrateful, and thinks the whole world revolves around her," Bert said, then cranked up the music he was playing-a woman wailing, loud and dramatic-ensuring that any retort to this would be drowned out entirely.†   (source)
  • Maybe if you're six," Ronnie retorted.†   (source)
  • After twenty years of daily give-and-take with a bunch of lawyers, she had honed her retorts and one-liners.†   (source)
  • "You think I keep an eye on every crawly that comes in here?" the landlady retorted.†   (source)
  • But he made no retort.†   (source)
  • Ann starts to retort, but we're interrupted by the sight of Felicity barreling down the hall.†   (source)
  • "I know you're Nelthilta," said Bigwig to the pretty young doe who had retorted to Chervil in the run.†   (source)
  • Just be quiet a minute, will you?" he said when he saw the retort forming.†   (source)
  • "Don't worry, I hear what you're saying and all," she retorts, talking fast and feeling, at this instant, that she's not to be trifled with.†   (source)
  • I saw Mrs. Nessel tighten her lips to keep back an angry retort.†   (source)
  • the tall man retorted.†   (source)
  • "An' I don't know of any worse," retorted Mandy sourly, as they went out together.†   (source)
  • "Don't be a prude," Faris retorts.†   (source)
  • "Excuses, excuses," retorted Hannah.†   (source)
  • Tyrion swallowed his retort.†   (source)
  • "Your mom," I retorted, as if she were a factor.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'm sorry," Goldfarb retorted.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka retorted with annoyance.†   (source)
  • 'No doubt you can,' retorted Sam, 'and I daresay there's more truth in some of them than you reckon.†   (source)
  • At night, short, fierce bursts of automatic weapons fire echoed outside the compound and were answered with stuttering retorts from the gun tower.†   (source)
  • "Well, you've got five minutes to find that platoon or you're up for a general court-martial!" the colonel retorted.†   (source)
  • Aven began to retort something about not being servile to men, but the dragon's tone and manner was so respectful that she could not refuse.†   (source)
  • "Of course Becky doesn't agree with you!" retorts my dad.†   (source)
  • But there was no time to think of a witty retort, because soon the porch was full of people and Vlad was busy greeting them all and taking their coats.†   (source)
  • "Well," she retorted.†   (source)
  • "Aw, go ahead," Grandma retorts.†   (source)
  • "Less work for you," she retorts.†   (source)
  • He had his mouth set to argue, but I didn't wait for a retort.†   (source)
  • I was still reeling from shock, so I went on "smart retort" autopilot.†   (source)
  • They overheard Richardson accusing Woolf of grabbing his bridle, and Woolf retorting that Richardson had grabbed his whip.†   (source)
  • "I'd think you'd be able to answer that better than me," retorted the DCI.†   (source)
  • But for once the perfect retort comes to mind immediately.†   (source)
  • God retorted.†   (source)
  • "Me?" she retorted, laughing too.†   (source)
  • Nieminen had a vicious retort on the tip of his tongue, but he stopped himself.†   (source)
  • "Ridden the what?" retorted the Horse with extreme contempt.†   (source)
  • "I'm not a sports reporter, and I bet your beating the home team makes you 'bout as welcome in McAllen as a skunk at a lawn party," she retorted.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • "I got a good night's sleep," she retorted and shoved his feet aside.†   (source)
  • "You are not the one who says," the Prophet retorted.†   (source)
  • Their warmth is fleeting, like a winter sun passing through clouds, and what I have left is the nervous heat of my retorts.†   (source)
  • "And what would you replace this campus with, Mr. McLean?" he retorted hotly.†   (source)
  • "I think I can manage my buttons now," Leamas retorted.†   (source)
  • I remember retorting, "Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last."†   (source)
  • "You don't need cat's eyes," she retorted.†   (source)
  • "Need?" he retorted, turning back toward her.†   (source)
  • That's what you thought about that R.A.F. squadron leader," she retorted.†   (source)
  • I did not wait for his retort, hearing only the laughter that greeted his sally, but went out to speak to the drummer.†   (source)
  • "My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!"†   (source)
  • "Oh, how very much it is!" he retorted.†   (source)
  • Well, for a long time there was no reason to be sure, Mary retorted with spirit.†   (source)
  • "Why, she's bleeding inside," he retorted.†   (source)
  • I would not sit at the same table with that renegade," retorted one of Boston's leading citizens in refusing to attend a dinner at which Adams would be present.†   (source)
  • Sar(censored)castic retort.†   (source)
  • "About what?" she would have retorted, had anyone suggested it.†   (source)
  • "Have you ever dug peat?" he retorts good-naturedly.   (source)
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  • "A bit longer than you, I fancy," he retorts.   (source)
  • "Then I can be going home right away," retorts Tjaden, and we all laugh.   (source)
  • Now Lennie retorted belligerently, "He ain't neither. George won't do nothing like that. ... He's nice to me."   (source)
    retorted = replied quickly
  • Tjaden retorts in the well-known phrase from Goethe's "Gotz von Berlichingen," with which he is always free.   (source)
    retorts = replies quickly
  • "I can diagnose the case more bluntly if you wish," he retorted.   (source)
    retorted = quickly replied
  • The retort silenced Matthew if it did not convince him.   (source)
    retort = quick reply
  • "She hadn't any right to call me ugly and redheaded," retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.   (source)
    retorted = quickly replied
  • "I don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are," retorted Marilla.   (source)
  • He was very quick upon her with this retort.   (source)
    retort = quickly reply
  • "Don't tell me a lie," retorted the schoolmaster.   (source)
    retorted = quickly replied
  • "There's a good deal more of the woman about her in others," retorted Marilla, with a momentary return of her old crispness.   (source)
  • "And there should be allowances made, Marilla. You know she's never had any bringing up."
    "Well, she's having it now" retorted Marilla.   (source)
  • "It's easy for you because you have an imagination," retorted Diana, "but what would you do if you had been born without one?"   (source)
  • "Well now, Marilla, I think you ought to let Anne go."
    "I don't then," retorted Marilla. "Who's bringing this child up, Matthew, you or me?"
      (source)
  • "It'd be more to the point if you could say she was a useful little thing," retorted Marilla, "but I'll make it my business to see she's trained to be that."   (source)
  • None of the Sloanes would have any dealings with the Bells, because the Bells had declared that the Sloanes had too much to do in the program, and the Sloanes had retorted that the Bells were not capable of doing the little they had to do properly.   (source)
  • "Those freaks aren't breaking through the window bars anytime soon," Frypan retorted.†   (source)
  • "We think it's a man's work," he retorted.†   (source)
  • I don't want to make him miserable, I want to put him on his guard!" retorted Mr. Weasley.†   (source)
  • "But not so quick as the one that killed our fathers," he retorts.†   (source)
  • "Then there is no need for my coven to declare itself, is there?" she retorted.†   (source)
  • This truck is old enough to be your car's grandfather — have some respect," I retorted.†   (source)
  • Sampson retorted, "Yeah, but it was you that got me in this mess."†   (source)
  • "I propose a trade," Clary said quickly, cutting off Lily's tirade and Jacob's retort.†   (source)
  • "Not as surprised as I am to see you in a shop, Weasley," retorted Malfoy.†   (source)
  • "A madness on his uncle's side ...." retorted the other half-sister.†   (source)
  • "That's enough!" said Professor McGonagall, as Hermione opened her mouth to retort, looking furious.†   (source)
  • "Booze is what it is," the pirate retorted.†   (source)
  • "Brom never mentioned a woman to me," retorted Eragon.†   (source)
  • "Hammer, you go to burning and we'll have nothing," Mama retorted.†   (source)
  • "I don't take well to being broken," I retort.†   (source)
  • Don't concern yourself with my aim," Tobias retorts.†   (source)
  • "So the Elder Wand," said Harry quickly, before Hermione could retort, "you think that exists too?"†   (source)
  • "No, you slim it," Minho retorted, pointing at Newt.†   (source)
  • Sophie retorted indignantly, "I'm doing a very complicated philosophical experiment!†   (source)
  • Yetta wanted to fling back a retort: maybe "Tell the bosses to treat us fairly, and I will!"†   (source)
  • "There is no difference," the princess retorted, her accent thick and a bit unwieldy.†   (source)
  • "There's no Scriptures saying Mother has to be the one to do all the caring," Judith retorted.†   (source)
  • We're in a one-hundred-story abandoned building with some Dauntless," I retort.†   (source)
  • Like you wouldn't use an advantage if you had one," retorts Uriah.†   (source)
  • Hermione retorted, and Harry gave up on her.†   (source)
  • "That's easy for you to say," Jane retorted.†   (source)
  • But she's dying!" retorted Eragon angrily, pointing at Arya.†   (source)
  • "No. You remind me every day," she retorted.†   (source)
  • "Fine," retorted Hermione, "You-Know-Who's mind, then!"†   (source)
  • "She isn't bringing her army with her," retorted Attolia.†   (source)
  • "And you should not have to endure it," she retorted.†   (source)
  • Jason bit back a retort: When did you help me the first time?†   (source)
  • Before Lee could retort, he rose up so quickly, so furiously, her own words were swallowed.†   (source)
  • 'Unacceptable and unbelievable?' retorted Catherine Staples.†   (source)
  • "You had best move quickly, then," Roran had retorted.†   (source)
  • "Which could be caused by a lot of things," I retort.†   (source)
  • Before Simon could snap back an angry retort, there was a knock on the door.†   (source)
  • "You must make your own chances," Felicity retorts.†   (source)
  • "I don't care who's waiting," Max retorted.†   (source)
  • "In this case a direct link between two outstations was permitted," Peters retorted angrily.†   (source)
  • So could you if you're not careful,Eragon retorted.†   (source)
  • "This whole damn thing's stupid," retorted Webb's wife.†   (source)
  • "Peace," said Nasuada before Orrin could utter a retort.†   (source)
  • I know what you gettin'," Mrs. Predmore retorted.†   (source)
  • Wells was about to launch an angry retort, but he was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell.†   (source)
  • Keenan's lips go thin, and I expect him to retort.†   (source)
  • Doesn't mean Stan can go around life looking for a handout," she retorted.†   (source)
  • Max eased back in his seat and bit back his retort while Valya continued.†   (source)
  • I have no interest in saving the Bureau," I retort.†   (source)
  • There's nowhere to go," retorted Kiselt.†   (source)
  • Aven started a curt retort, but bit it back.†   (source)
  • "Since when does a curandera need help to deal with dogs," she retorted.†   (source)
  • 'No, it's your fault for refusing to fly them,' Colonel Korn retorted.†   (source)
  • "You call this rubbish fun?" retorts my dad incredulously.†   (source)
  • I retort, and then I laugh bitterly, knowing full well what her response shall be.†   (source)
  • "And you only get half for the one at the chasm," Drizzt retorted.†   (source)
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