All 13 Uses of
retort
in
Fathers and Sons
- 'And who does despise him?' retorted Bazarov.†
Chpt 7 *
- 'I wonder you're not ashamed to attribute such ideas to me!' retorted Arkady hotly; 'I don't consider my father wrong from that point of view; I think he ought to marry her.'†
Chpt 9
- 'To my mind,' retorted Bazarov, 'Raphael's not worth a brass farthing; and they're no better than he.'†
Chpt 10
- 'Well, no,' retorted Bazarov; 'a piece of meat's better than a piece of bread even from the chemical point of view.'†
Chpt 13
- See how correct she is!' retorted Bazarov; and after a brief pause he added, 'She's a perfect grand-duchess, a royal personage.†
Chpt 15
- 'A nice grand-duchess,' retorted Arkady, 'at the very first meeting she invited such great aristocrats as you and me to stay with her.'†
Chpt 16
- 'And your wife's a witch,' retorted the other.†
Chpt 19
- 'From their unconstrained behaviour,' Bazarov remarked to Arkady, 'and the playfulness of their retorts, you can guess that my father's peasants are not too much oppressed.†
Chpt 19
- 'It was a simple sense of justice spoke in me and not in the least family feeling,' retorted Arkady passionately.†
Chpt 21
- 'On the contrary, I am certain I'm right,' retorted Arkady.†
Chpt 25
- 'Oh, why?' she retorted; but she herself led the conversation into another channel.†
Chpt 25
- He used even to repeat these sometimes flat or pointless retorts, and would, for instance, for several days constantly without rhyme or reason, reiterate, 'Not a matter of the first importance!' simply because his son, on hearing he was going to matins, had made use of that expression.†
Chpt 27
- This little speech of Bazarov's, recalling his old retorts, moved Vassily Ivanovitch greatly.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(retort as in: quick retort) a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one