All 42 Uses
retort
in
Little Dorrit
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- Madame Rigaud retorted; I retorted; Madame Rigaud grew warm; I grew warm, and provoked her.†
Chpt 1.1 *retorted = quickly replied
- Madame Rigaud retorted; I retorted; Madame Rigaud grew warm; I grew warm, and provoked her.†
Chpt 1.1
- 'What's taste?' drily retorted Pancks.†
Chpt 1.13
- 'What are you doing with yourself?' retorted Maggy, for want Of a better answer.†
Chpt 1.14
- 'Timorous?' said Mr Flintwinch, turning his head to retort, as he went before with the candle.†
Chpt 1.30retort = quickly reply
- 'Indeed I don't know,' retorted Mrs Merdle, 'but that you had better do that, than be so moody and distraught.†
Chpt 1.33retorted = quickly replied
- 'Mrs Merdle,' retorted that gentleman, wiping his dull red and yellow face, 'I know that as well as you do.†
Chpt 1.33
- His friend, being left alone with the other visitors, walked slowly up and down the room without coming to the fire again, pulling his black moustache in a contemplative manner, as if he felt himself committed to the late retort.†
Chpt 2.1retort = quickly reply
- 'So much the worse,' retorted Fanny, determined not to admit anything in extenuation, 'for then you have no excuse.†
Chpt 2.3retorted = quickly replied
- 'Yes, but if you please we won't,' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.6
- 'Do I think it possible?' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.7
- 'And may I ask, ma'am,' retorted Mr Meagles, a little heightened in colour, 'who does expect everything?'†
Chpt 2.8
- 'Why, no, sir,' retorted Mr Flintwinch.†
Chpt 2.10
- To which Bar retorted, 'Eton, my lord, or Parliamentary?' neatly showing that he had mastered the joke, and delicately insinuating that he could never forget it while his life remained.†
Chpt 2.12
- 'This won't do, you know,' Mr Pancks would retort.†
Chpt 2.13retort = quickly reply
- 'Ventures?' retorted Pancks, with a snort.†
Chpt 2.13retorted = quickly replied
- Pancks retorted.†
Chpt 2.13
- 'One word more, Mr Clennam,' retorted Pancks, 'and then enough for to-night.†
Chpt 2.13
- 'Let you say, my dear?' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.14
- 'Amy, my dear Amy,' retorted Fanny, parodying her words, 'I know that I wish to have a more defined and distinct position, in which I can assert myself with greater effect against that insolent woman.'†
Chpt 2.14
- But, perhaps, she little thinks how I would retort upon her if I married her son.†
Chpt 2.14retort = quickly reply
- 'Because she can find my engagement out for herself, papa,' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.15retorted = quickly replied
- 'No, little Tortoise,' retorted Fanny, with exceeding sharpness.†
Chpt 2.15
- 'And you know it, I know,' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.15
- 'What's that to you, sir?' retorted Mr Dorrit.†
Chpt 2.18
- 'Frederick,' he retorted, 'I beg you to go to bed.†
Chpt 2.19
- 'I presume,' retorted Mrs General, in her former impressive manner, 'of my services alone.†
Chpt 2.19
- 'Go back to them,' Miss Wade retorted.†
Chpt 2.20
- 'You know very well,' retorted Harriet in her turn, 'that I won't go back to them.†
Chpt 2.20
- These disappointments of her patronage were a sharp retort, and made me feel independent.†
Chpt 2.21retort = quickly reply
- Under that pretence he began to retort upon me.†
Chpt 2.21
- Mrs Clennam's attentive frown expanded by degrees into a severe look of triumph, and she retorted with emphasis, 'Take care how you judge others, then.†
Chpt 2.23retorted = quickly replied
- 'Then you shouldn't ask,' retorted Fanny.†
Chpt 2.24
- 'Calculated to shine in society,' retorted Fanny with great irritability; 'yes, indeed!†
Chpt 2.24
- He was quick with this unexpected retort, and it again made Arthur regard him with a wondering expression of face.†
Chpt 2.27retort = quickly reply
- 'Then it IS your good pleasure, sir?' retorted Rugg.†
Chpt 2.28retorted = quickly replied
- 'To the Devil with you and your prison,' retorted Rigaud, leisurely, as he took from his pocket a case containing the materials for making cigarettes, and employed his facile hands in folding a few for present use; 'I care for neither of you.†
Chpt 2.28
- 'And you know you told me at the door, you didn't mean to go,' retorted Rigaud.†
Chpt 2.30
- 'Truly?' retorted Rigaud.†
Chpt 2.30
- The shrill outer circle again retorted, 'Then that 'ud show you was mad if nothing else did, 'cause it's right opposite!'†
Chpt 2.31
- 'Don't I squeeze 'em?' retorted Mr Pancks.†
Chpt 2.32
- 'Happiness?' retorted Mr Meagles.†
Chpt 2.34
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)