All 32 Uses of
retort
in
Great Expectations
- Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he now retorted, "It's no more than your merits.†
p. 24.6retorted = quickly replied
- Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he now retorted, "It's no more than your merits.†
p. 24.6
- "And pray what might you want with him?" retorted my sister, quick to resent his being wanted at all.†
p. 30.6
- I was going to retort with an inquiry, and had got as far as "Why—" when Joe stopped me.†
p. 50.4retort = quickly reply
- "Then don't think of me," retorted Miss Havisham.†
p. 90.2retorted = quickly replied
- "Well then, as to Old Orlick, he's a going up town," retorted that worthy.†
p. 120.2
- "You'd be everybody's master, if you durst," retorted Orlick, with an ill-favored grin.†
p. 120.9
- "Who's a going to try?" retorted Joe.†
p. 145.9
- "Never mind what you have always longed for, Mr. Pip," he retorted; "keep to the record.†
p. 147.9
- "And do you remember," retorted Mr. Jaggers, "that but for me you wouldn't be here and couldn't be here?"
p. 175.2 *
- "And all that I know," I retorted, "you know."†
p. 191.6
- "How dare you tell me so?" retorted Mrs. Pocket.†
p. 202.8
- "Come!" retorted Mr. Jaggers.†
p. 207.4
- "More than that, eh!" retorted Mr. Jaggers, lying in wait for me, with his hands in his pockets, his head on one side, and his eyes on the wall behind me; "how much more?"†
p. 207.5
- "Well," retorted Drummle; "he'll be paid."†
p. 226.5
- "You should think!" retorted Drummle.†
p. 226.6
- He now retorted in a coarse, lumpish way, and Startop tried to turn the discussion aside with some small pleasantry that made us all laugh.†
p. 227.3
- "I come her," he retorted, "on my legs.†
p. 246.6
- I had leisure to entertain the retort in my mind, while he slowly lifted his heavy glance from the pavement, up my legs and arms, to my face.†
p. 246.8retort = quickly reply
- "Burn me, if I know!" he retorted, first stretching himself and then shaking himself; "my orders ends here, young master.†
p. 247.7retorted = quickly replied
- "And never will, Pip," he retorted, with a frowning smile.†
p. 255.3
- "Be firm, Herbert," I would retort, plying my own pen with great assiduity.†
p. 293.8retort = quickly reply
- "Now, don't echo," I retorted.†
p. 302.9retorted = quickly replied
- "Are you not?" was the fierce retort.†
p. 324.6retort = quickly reply
- "Mother by adoption," retorted Estella, never departing from the easy grace of her attitude, never raising her voice as the other did, never yielding either to anger or tenderness,—"mother by adoption, I have said that I owe everything to you.†
p. 325.1retorted = quickly replied
- "No, not forgotten," retorted Estella,—"not forgotten, but treasured up in my memory.†
p. 325.7
- "Estella who?" said I. "Never you mind," retorted Drummle.†
p. 328.8
- This was the only retort—except glass or crockery—that the heavy creature was capable of making; but, I became as highly incensed by it as if it had been barbed with wit, and I immediately rose in my place and said that I could not but regard it as being like the honorable Finch's impudence to come down to that Grove,—we always talked about coming down to that Grove, as a neat Parliamentary turn of expression,—down to that Grove, proposing a lady of whom he knew nothing.†
p. 329.0retort = quickly reply
- Her fingers stopped for the first time, as she retorted rather angrily, "What have I told you?†
p. 384.9retorted = quickly replied
- "On whom should I fling myself away?" she retorted, with a smile.†
p. 385.7
- "It was you, villain," said I. "I tell you it was your doing,—I tell you it was done through you," he retorted, catching up the gun, and making a blow with the stock at the vacant air between us.†
p. 454.5
- "I swear I don't see him here," said I. "Say that likewise," retorted Pumblechook.†
p. 507.3
Definition:
a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one