All 8 Uses

retort
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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Owl!' was Kim's retort on the lama's behalf.†
Chpt 1

retort = quickly reply
'A little flour, a little butter and a mouthful of cardamoms,' Kim retorted, flushed with the praise, but still cautious—'Does one grow rich on that?†
Chpt 3 *

retorted = quickly replied
'It has turned so; but fifty years since I could have proved it otherwise,' the old soldier retorted, driving his stirrup-edge into the pony's lean flank.†
Chpt 3
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.†
Chpt 4

retort = quickly reply
Kim hailed a sweeper, who promptly retorted with a piece of unnecessary insolence, in the natural belief that the European boy could not follow it.†
Chpt 6

retorted = quickly replied
I go about to cure him,' Kim retorted.†
Chpt 11
'One priest always goes about to make another priest,' was the retort.†
Chpt 11

retort = quickly reply
Said he: "I will open a grocer's shop,"' Kim retorted.†
Chpt 12

retorted = quickly replied

Definitions:

(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)