"Repartee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just yarning for the fun there is in it, I should say that I was back in King's Highway, helping Beryl King gather posies and brush up her repartee, the very next morning—or the second, at the very latest. As a matter of fact, though, I steered clear of that pass, and behaved myself and stuck to work for six long weeks; that isn't saying I never thought about ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... Despite the offensive repartee that accompanied Philip's departure, however, he returned to find Polatkin entirely restored to good humour by a thousand-dollar order that had arrived in the ten-o'clock mail; and as Philip himself felt the glow of conscious virtue attendant upon a good deed economically ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... dress, but in each of her three new evening frocks she looked bewitching. She was a gay, trig little person, with snapping, dark eyes and an arch expression; a tireless dancer, quick and audacious at repartee; the very ideal of a college belle. The student world had fallen prostrate at her feet, and Tom Whittemore most conspicuously ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... know; did he?" She had turned upon him swiftly with an outflash of the playful daring which had been one of his major fetterings in time past—the ecstatic little charm that goes with quick repartee and instant and ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... the Highway; but passed not The hostel. Within there Too mocking to Love's re-expression Was Time's repartee! ...
— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
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