All 11 Uses
retort
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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- "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."
p. 46.7retorted = quickly replied
- "I don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are," retorted Marilla.
p. 54.1
- "She hadn't any right to call me ugly and redheaded," retorted Anne, evasive and defiant.
p. 65.2
- "And there should be allowances made, Marilla. You know she's never had any bringing up."
"Well, she's having it now" retorted Marilla.p. 98.3 - The retort silenced Matthew if it did not convince him.
p. 98.3retort = quick reply
- "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?"
p. 146.4retorted = quickly replied - 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.
p. 201.3
- "It's easy for you because you have an imagination," retorted Diana, "but what would you do if you had been born without one?"
p. 203.1
- "She's not here when I told her to stay," retorted Marilla.†
p. 210.1
- "Reckon you're glad we kept her, Marilla?" whispered Matthew, speaking for the first time since he had entered the hall, when Anne had finished her essay.
"It's not the first time I've been glad," retorted Marilla. "You do like to rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert."
p. 282.1 *retorted = replied quickly - "There's a good deal more of the woman about her in others," retorted Marilla, with a momentary return of her old crispness.
p. 299.1retorted = quickly replied
Definitions:
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(1)
(retort as in: quick retort) a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)