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Updated: June 10, 2025
Their senators and representatives in your Congress insulted, bantered, defied and then left you. They expelled from their land or assassinated every inhabitant of known loyalty. They betrayed and surrendered your arms.
Miss Twexby giggled again, and her nose grew a shade redder at the pleasure of being bantered by this handsome young man. 'You're a furriner, she said, shortly; 'I knew you were, she went on triumphantly as he nodded, 'you talk well enough, but there's something wrong about the way you pronounces your words.
And we asked thirdly, "Does your religion teach that marriages are holy and heavenly, and that adulteries are profane and infernal?" Hereupon several in the crowd laughed aloud, jested, and bantered, saying, "Inquire of our priests, and not of us, as to what concerns religion. We acquiesce entirely in what they declare; because no point of religion is an object of decision in the understanding.
The near-sighted gentleman declined to wager anything but just the five dollars, and Parkins spurned his proposition with the scorn of a gentleman who would on no account bet a cent of money. But he grew excited, and bantered the whole crowd. Was there no gentleman in the crowd who would lay a wager of wine for the company on this interesting little trick?
"I seen him that way half an hour ago, all right," bantered Bert Rogers. Weary passed over the joke. "Mamma! Has it been that long?" he cried uneasily. "I've got to be moving some. Here, Dock, you put on that coat and never mind the label; it's got to go and so have you." "Aw, he's no good to yuh, Weary," they protested. "He's too drunk to tell chloroform from dried apricots."
It'll curdle her blood like Dutch cheese to see us marching him down there and she can't see the hay sticking out of his sleeves, that far off." "What if she wants to hold an autopsy?" bantered Chip. "By golly, we'll stake her to a hay knife and tell her to go after him!" cried Slim, suddenly waking up to the situation.
Lined up against its wall, we might any other time have bantered about the possibility of being shot, but we are in no mood to jest. The door finally opens and in strides Warden Whittaker with a stranger beside him. He reviews his latest criminal recruits, engaging the stranger meanwhile in whispered conversation. There are short, uncertain laughs. There are nods of the head and more whispers.
They would fain have known who our people were, and whence they came; but not a man in the sloop would answer them to any question they asked, but in such a manner as let them think themselves bantered and jested with. However, in discourse, William said they were able men for any cargo we could have brought them, and that they would have bought twice as much spice if we had had it.
"See here, Ralph," bantered Pete, "I've copped Brick-top for myself. You keep off the grass. See!" "All right," Ralph answered. "Katherine for yours, Petruchio. The golden blonde for mine!" He smiled for the first time in days. In fact, at sight of the flying-girls he had begun to beam with fatuous good nature.
It was something he had never before experienced. He knew that it had come mysteriously and subtly, and was now possessing his entire being. Jake noted how absent minded his assistant was that afternoon, and jokingly told him to look out for the constable. "He may be along any minute now," he bantered. Douglas laughed and went on with his work.
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