rejoinder

• When Xanthippe first scolded him and then drenched him with water, his rejoinder was, "Did I not say that Xanthippe's thunder would end in rain?" —  Laudator Temporis Acti
• There's currently a hip, one-word rejoinder in the affirmative: —  post-gazette.com - News
• And further, on what intelligible principle is the consent of all the other uncials, and the whole mass of cursives, to be explained, if this verse of Scripture be indeed spurious I know that the rejoinder will be as follows:--'Yes, but if the ten words in dispute really are part of the inspired verity, how is their absence from the earliest Codexes to be accounted for?' —  The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
• She had her little conscious smile all ready for the rejoinder which she knew her son would not fail to give. —  An Alabaster Box
• Yet her rejoinder was a woman's I say you would not have written it so; is not that the truth I would not let her pin me down If I should write it now, it should be written in great letters, dear lady. —  The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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