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We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.
Harley did not respond to her banter, thinking it premature, as she had never seen him before.
And at tea they bantered and were not markedly different in their use of forks or choice of pastry.
It is difficult to say whether a tone of playful banter or of gentle reproach prevailed in the speech.
"Anybody would think Tom overwhelmed with business," said Walter, next to Tom in age, with good-humored banter.
Her target shot her a glance of equal pity for her lack of understanding and empty-headed banter.
Then the frown changed to a sneer, masked with a bantering smile, but all the same unmistakable.
On their side they abuse their prerogative, as women avail themselves of banter to leave the sting of truth.
His earnestness was so terrible that I could not maintain my hollow banter, and I was silent.
The husband continued in his banter; "before entering a house they should knock, as the White-chests do."
They were rough-appearing men, and Davy and his red head had to take considerable banter and joking.
"That isn't her only expression," announced Uncle John, who loved these little exchanges of good-humored banter.
There was more in this than mere banter; it was too connected and full of purpose for insanity.
Yet, as he turned toward Frederik, there was no trace in his tone of anything but pleasant banter.
I am inclined to think that beneath this rather clever banter there was a certain measure of truth.
After some bantering the guard opened fire on the boys, killing two and wounding a number of others.
He understood that beneath all this banter his friends cared for him and appreciated his bravery.
Lowell had been watching for his action, and at once wrote one of his bantering yet serious articles.
Even Horace, despite his banter about the sage, in his serious moods borrows the language of the Stoics.
"Yet I can't think you really mean that, General," protested Harlan, wholly confused by this persistent banter.
The pretty girl of the party was bantering the genial bachelor on his reasons for remaining single.
This was growing dangerous again, so, catching himself, he turned the conversation back into the bantering vein.
Spying Adam Kraus, they rushed to him with noisy banter and laughter that had a shrill edge.
I called that evening on the night telegraph operator, Andy Clock, and bantered him to trade watches.
The tone of feverish banter which Lily was adopting upset him more than her anger had done.
Banter favored me with a visit, and after breakfast asked how I had passed the preceding evening.
And it made me almost respect him to find that he dropped all his banter, as out of season.
Even at this disagreeable juncture, the man spoke in a bantering tone, as it were between jest and earnest.
Long after Teddy had made his presence known the argument continued, half in banter, half in seriousness.
He continued in an extremely cheerful condition all the way to the ferry, keeping up a fire of banter.
Pen, however, did not remark this agitation much, but continued in the same bantering and excited vein.
There was pleading in her voice, notwithstanding its note of banter; but she did not stay to plead.
As for Calvert, he could not reply to her light banter, but stood looking at her in silence.
He said to himself, with humorous banter, "it won't do to be married in a coat with the buttons off."
"Well, it's my opinion that you've never been married at all, really," she persisted, with a bantering seriousness.
Her heart gave a bound as she recognized, not the bantering, but a very serious, Brent had spoken.
"You're awfully wicked to get me into a scrape of this kind, Norman," she cried, with bantering laughter.
Thus, amid much good-natured banter, though to an outsider it might not sound so, the supper went on.
"You were sadly missed from among us this evening, my dear," she continued in a light, bantering tone.
This was the very invitation he had been wanting, and the Boy instantly dropped his air of banter.
At the flower-markets her preoccupation was so evident that she was compelled to run the fire of banter.
No translation can give any idea of the full and deadly effect of that easy, trifling, bantering style.
His merriest talk was like playing catch with an apple of banter, which one afterwards ate and forgot.
Gentlemen, I beg the conversation may not become serious, but retain the bantering tone in which I began it.
There was a decided note of uneasiness behind the banter of his tone which her quick ear instantly detected.
All sorts of banter and pleasant talk went on between the smoking gentlemen and the working ladies.
The confession was perfectly sincere, as was the adoration also, though both were uttered in a tone of banter.
I bantered him a little, saying I did not leave him behind for fear he would get into trouble.
One minute he was sympathetic and kind, and the next laughing at and bantering me in a strange tone.
I challenged all my senses as I heard Helen's deep voice running on in light banter with her aunt.
"You love to banter; you love to give me that surname of 'Rich,' to me, now no less poor than Job."
However smart and witty you may be considered, do not exercise your wit in rallying and bantering your friends.
Doubleday makes you a continual banter, and it hurts my feelings as the mother of your children, it does.
He looked at her with what she would have called in another a bantering tenderness in his deep-set eyes.
Or, supposing what you banter me with was true, do you really imagine you could change such a passion?
Steinmetz's good-natured banter had come back to his memory, during the last few days, in a new light.
And so the evening passed with the banter that invariably took place when Rube was of the party.
Their attempt to talk to each other soon failed, for Margaret was no good at either banter or small talk.
Sometimes he caught nothing; and then her clear, humorous eyes bantered him, and sometimes she even rallied him.
The little professor was no longer smiling and the gentle touch of banter was gone from his voice.
The impression upon me was not concealed from my class, and they bantered me; and I looked gloomy.
She laughed at me with bantering but good-natured contempt in her laugh as she emphasized the word "lawyers."
The laughter died out, the banter was hushed, and the atmosphere became that of tense hostility and anger.
In private, where he was free, he was gay, joked, and bantered pleasantly, and laughed with good heart.
Partisans of both sides stood nearby and shouted encouragement to their friends and heavy banter at the foe.
Patty's blue eyes filled with real tears, as she dropped her light and bantering manner, and spoke earnestly.
As they followed the path that led around in front of the Hall greetings and banter fell thick.
She could almost hear his voice, bantering and tender, "Sweetie," and feel the warm pressure of his arm.
The weather shakes its bundle of mysteries in our faces, and banters us with, "Don't you wish you knew?"
Their laughter was noisy, their banter of one another and of Winona was continuous, and Winona laughed, even bantered.
Assured lovers resort to happy banter and light oppositions, to give themselves a sweeter sense of unity of heart.
I suspected at first that he was bantering me, but I afterwards found that what he said was true.
I bantered every one I met to trade horses, but no one seemed to take a particular fancy to my animal.
"If you are not previously engaged, my strapping friend," said he, in a bantering tone, "I claim the preference."
There was banter in Hammond's voice, but there was concern in the wise direction of his eyes toward Thomas.
She expressed astonishment at not seeing him yet a minister, while indulging in a little banter at his expense.
Half ashamed of his fears, half dreading the bantering he was sure to meet from Grenfell, he went forward.
Jimmy did not join the group, for the suspense bothered him and the others' light banter jarred.
He explained in bantering astonishment as he surveyed the two scouts in the uniform which was strange to him.
Margaret did not like this banter; it looked as if they already knew that Will Laud was the intruder.
In all their exchanges of banter he had never known her look and speak quite as she did now.
We are miserably bantered, say they, by our senses, and amused only with the outside and show of things.
She laughed with him, but she did not understand his banter, and preceded him into the kitchen.
Bob was not quite restored to his usual good-natured self after the bantering to which he had been subjected.
Asked Dick abruptly, and in such a tone that the others felt the bantering must come to an end.
Since there were so few women to do the cooking, the men helped too, with good will and bantering.
Sometimes two good anecdote-tellers would be put up to banter each other, and the encounters would be very witty.
You must not take my little banter, darling, in such a matter-of-fact way, or I must hold my tongue.
It was such a message as defiant kings have sent to banter those who contemplated an invasion of their realms.
If you are as successful in love as you are in banter, I should not wish to enter the list against you.
"There is something in his banter which strikes me as coming from a man consumed either by hate or envy."
Yet he answered Newman in a soft, even voice, and in the same half-bantering vein the big fellow had used.
Lincoln's self-control and good humor proved equal to their banter, while his engineering skill speedily won their admiration.
Everybody followed, and the bantering and cheering made a continuous performance for them until they reached their home.
He had a fluency of speech, a power of banter, a readiness of tongue, which he had never shown before.
They talked and shivered and bantered and sang and cheered (just to keep warm) for a solid hour.
It was done in a kind of rattling, bantering fashion; and when we rose from table it was all settled.
One of his longest poems is a banter upon the various assumptions of philosophy respecting the system of the world.
Griswold read of the New Orleans incident with a smile, while several fellow-passengers discussed it in a tone of banter.
He consulted Bob Lee about it, and got only a bantering answer and a hint about the note of hand.