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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)
  • She was watching a pale blue fluid move slowly through a tube from a beaker to a retort.†   (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)
  • "So eat around it," he retorts.†   (source)
  • Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling up her breasts for wrestling," I retort.†   (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)
  • I quickly put the box down next to him on the bench and displayed my retort.†   (source)
  • Kate retorted fiercely as Number Two stopped the car near the guardhouse.†   (source)
  • "Some of it belongs to Miss Simpkins, I'll have you know!" she retorted angrily.†   (source)
  • But I can already hear Commander Jameson's retort.†   (source)
  • Piper wanted to make a withering retort, but her anger turned to panic.†   (source)
  • Noody retorted.†   (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)
  • "You can be sure I wouldn't have," he retorted, "had I any idea you could swim."†   (source)
  • "What, and I can't?" the Colonel retorted.†   (source)
  • I retorted.†   (source)
  • "For goodness' sake, give it a rest," Mary retorted.†   (source)
  • "Children don't have heart attacks," Annie retorted.†   (source)
  • 'Big deal,' retorted Foaly, and Holly could almost see him shrug.†   (source)
  • Enrique retorts.†   (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)
  • "And my shoes are made of gold," retorted Eragon.†   (source)
  • Viviana retorted.†   (source)
  • "I've been exhilarated in better ways," Mack retorted sarcastically.†   (source)
  • Lamia opened her mouth to retort, frowned, and said nothing.†   (source)
  • I opened my mouth to retort.†   (source)
  • I retorted.†   (source)
  • You're killing yourself and everyone else," Nathaniel retorts.†   (source)
  • "Come in!" my father retorted, with impatience rising in his craw.†   (source)
  • There were old clocks and vases, mortars and retorts, knives and dolls,quill pens and bookends, octants and sextants, compasses and barometers.†   (source)
  • Alec muttered a retort into his coffee.†   (source)
  • Luma didn't have much of a retort.†   (source)
  • "I may not be perfect, but I am nothing like you," I would retort.†   (source)
  • A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.†   (source)
  • "And you're not sick," she retorts.†   (source)
  • "Of course she is," my father retorts.†   (source)
  • "Papa's thousands of miles away," Yetta retorted, but she telt shame coursing through her.†   (source)
  • It's not just that," Amaranta retorted.†   (source)
  • Chauncey had a profane retort on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed it.†   (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)
  • "You're setting back the cause," Norah retorted, remembering Brec in the filtered light of the dining room long ago, waving pamphlets on lactation.†   (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)
  • Vivaldo suppressed whatever rude retort was on his tongue.†   (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)
  • Maybe if you're six," Ronnie retorted.†   (source)
  • "Look for it on the bench next to the retort," shouted the magus at the disappearing figure.†   (source)
  • "Of course Becky doesn't agree with you!" retorts my dad.†   (source)
  • "You think I keep an eye on every crawly that comes in here?" the landlady retorted.†   (source)
  • I glanced at Dexter and realized that I'd never seen him like this: a bit cowed, uncomfortable, unable to come up with the quick funny retort that always seemed so close at hand.†   (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)
  • But he made no retort.†   (source)
  • "An' I don't know of any worse," retorted Mandy sourly, as they went out together.†   (source)
  • the tall man retorted.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'm sorry," Goldfarb retorted.†   (source)
  • I saw Mrs. Nessel tighten her lips to keep back an angry retort.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka retorted with annoyance.†   (source)
  • Just be quiet a minute, will you?" he said when he saw the retort forming.†   (source)
  • "Aw, go ahead," Grandma retorts.†   (source)
  • "Tell them that," retorted Rolf.†   (source)
  • Ann starts to retort, but we're interrupted by the sight of Felicity barreling down the hall.†   (source)
  • After twenty years of daily give-and-take with a bunch of lawyers, she had honed her retorts and one-liners.†   (source)
  • 'No doubt you can,' retorted Sam, 'and I daresay there's more truth in some of them than you reckon.†   (source)
  • "Well," she retorted.†   (source)
  • His fingers began gliding up and down my inner thigh, making it difficult for me to think of a retort.†   (source)
  • "I know you're Nelthilta," said Bigwig to the pretty young doe who had retorted to Chervil in the run.†   (source)
  • I was still reeling from shock, so I went on "smart retort" autopilot.†   (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)
  • "Well, you've got five minutes to find that platoon or you're up for a general court-martial!" the colonel retorted.†   (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)
  • At night, short, fierce bursts of automatic weapons fire echoed outside the compound and were answered with stuttering retorts from the gun tower.†   (source)
  • "Don't be a prude," Faris retorts.†   (source)
  • Clarke opened her mouth to launch a retort, but the words disappeared as she watched Thalia lean over, suddenly coughing.†   (source)
  • He had his mouth set to argue, but I didn't wait for a retort.†   (source)
  • God retorted.†   (source)
  • Tyrion swallowed his 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)
  • "I'd think you'd be able to answer that better than me," retorted the DCI.†   (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)
  • They overheard Richardson accusing Woolf of grabbing his bridle, and Woolf retorting that Richardson had grabbed his whip.†   (source)
  • "I got a good night's sleep," she retorted and shoved his feet aside.†   (source)
  • "Me?" she retorted, laughing too.†   (source)
  • But for once the perfect retort comes to mind immediately.†   (source)
  • Nieminen had a vicious retort on the tip of his tongue, but he stopped himself.†   (source)
  • "Your mom," I retorted, as if she were a factor.†   (source)
  • "Ridden the what?" retorted the Horse with extreme contempt.†   (source)
  • "Who indeed?" retorted Jensin Brent, now a bit of fluster showing through his calm facade.†   (source)
  • "Less work for you," she retorts.†   (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)
  • I did not wait for his retort, hearing only the laughter that greeted his sally, but went out to speak to the drummer.†   (source)
  • "You are not the one who says," the Prophet retorted.†   (source)
  • "And what would you replace this campus with, Mr. McLean?" he retorted hotly.†   (source)
  • "You don't need cat's eyes," she retorted.†   (source)
  • That's what you thought about that R.A.F. squadron leader," she retorted.†   (source)
  • I remember retorting, "Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last."†   (source)
  • "I think I can manage my buttons now," Leamas retorted.†   (source)
  • "Need?" he retorted, turning back toward her.†   (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)
    retorts = replies quickly
  • "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 nowhere to go," retorted Kiselt.†   (source)
  • "Since when does a curandera need help to deal with dogs," she retorted.†   (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)
  • "Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!" my mother retorted.†   (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)
  • "What do you take us for?" retorted Orval.†   (source)
  • "Try it if you want," retorted Albriech.†   (source)
  • "Fine," retorted Hermione, "You-Know-Who's mind, then!"†   (source)
  • "Then they can both guard you," retorted Nasuada.†   (source)
  • "We will give the bards a reason to remember our names," retorted the smith.†   (source)
  • Eragon thought back to some of Oromis's lessons and retorted, "Things that should remain secrets.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "You're the one who wanted me home more," Al retorted.†   (source)
  • Max eased back in his seat and bit back his retort while Valya continued.†   (source)
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