"Banteringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Know then, madam," banteringly explained the lover, "that the court-martial which has been trying Lee for his conduct at Monmouth has come to a verdict, which required transmission to Congress, for confirmation, and as I enjoy nothing better than two hundred and forty miles of riding ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... for one who ever cherished ideal aspirations, for the student, the "man of books" (as his father had been banteringly wont to term him), worshipper of the muses, intellectual Epicurean, and would-be optimist philosopher, it must be admitted he had strangely dealt, and been dealt with, since he first beheld that face, now returned to light ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... these words, Peyrolles, now thoroughly alarmed and irritated, gave Cocardasse a glance that ought to have withered him, but Cocardasse was not withered, and smiled banteringly at his employer. ...
— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... they send us soldiers for? To squeeze more contributions out of us and a couple of conscriptions afterward. By all that's holy! if there isn't a rising there ought to be. So you"—he ended, looking banteringly at the young man—"so you ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... abstractedly. "Pray did you see anything?" he continued, banteringly, to Lucrezia, and to another attendant who was in the room. They answered that they had not: but Lucrezia was white, and shook convulsively. A wild, frantic sob, burst from the Lady ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... hands clenched, eyes flashing. They had started toward the hangar from which a man was running toward them, Matthews said, banteringly: ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... said Carroll, banteringly. "They were so little we couldn't get them on. I told Polly and she gathered them in last night and took them up to her room and made them bigger. I guess she spent half the night doing it, for her light ...
— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells
... abusive,' said Robert, opening his eyes at her tone. Then, passing his arm through hers, he looked banteringly down upon her. 'For the first time since you left the metropolis you have walked yourself into a colour. It's becoming—and it's Murewell—so ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... he banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering their boats for breakers, mistaking them for ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville |
