All 7 Uses of
retort
in
Childhood's End
- What does anyone know of Karellen's powers?" retorted Stormgren.†
Chpt 2retorted = quickly replied
- "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!"†
Chpt 2 *
- "Despite your nationality," retorted Stormgren, "you're E'olish, aren't you?†
Chpt 3
- ties," retorted Stormgren.†
Chpt 3
- I didn't know," retorted Benny.†
Chpt 8
- "What do you want to do about it?" retorted Jean.†
Chpt 15
- She had long ago threatened to make the appropriate retort by brewing him a cup of hemlock, but fbrtunately this herbal beverage was less common to New Athens than the old.†
Chpt 17retort = quickly reply
Definition:
a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one