retort

• The materials for such retort are abundant and ready at hand. —  The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes
• Of course my retort is: 'What business have they to spin the web?' —  The Daughters of Danaus
• It is good for them The dairyman chuckled at the retort, and so did Fred Evelyn milked the pail full, turned it over to the dairyman and went to see the little pigs Evelyn," said Fred, "how would you like to take a ride over the ranch? —  Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It
• When my mother went out, or had words with any of her neighbours, the retort was invariably, "Who sent the press-gang after her own husband?" —  Poor Jack
• "My kinsman has ten generations of ancestry of the best blood of Scotland and the Isles underground To that, M. le Duc, there is an obvious and ancient retort--that therein he is like a potato plant; the best of him is buried Argyll stood before the Frenchman dubious and embarrassed; vexed at the tone of the encounter, and convinced, for reasons of his own, that in one particular at least the foreigner prevaricated, yet impressed by the manly front of the gentleman whose affair had brought a morning's tragedy so close upon the heels of an evening's mirth. —  Doom Castle

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