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  • Retorted the president: This is not class warfare.

    Taxes Emerge as Defining Issue for 2012 Campaign Gerald F. Seib 2011

  • Retorted Brent: Don't think any of the insights he's getting is stuff he sits down and thinks about.

    Barrys' brotherly banter has certain ring to it 2007

  • Retorted is friendly rival Niels Bohr: “Einstein, stop telling God what to do.”

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • Retorted the Wazir, “Deny not the knowledge of her, for I have proof that thou knowest her and hast passed two years with her.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Retorted the other, “Have no fear for that, for I will bring thee an ointment, wherewith when thou hast anointed thy body, the water will do thee no hurt, though thou shouldst pass the lave of thy life going about in the great deep: and thou shalt lie down and rise up in the sea and naught shall harm thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Retorted that for all she cared he might sit up all night.

    The Jingle Book Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Retorted she, "By Allah, O my father, none slew the Lion save the young man who entered the garden and carried off the clusters of gems, the youth whom thou art minded to slay."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Retorted the other, "Have no fear for that, for I will bring thee an ointment, wherewith when thou hast anointed thy body, the water will do thee no hurt, though thou shouldst pass the lave of thy life going about in the great deep: and thou shalt lie down and rise up in the sea and naught shall harm thee."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Retorted Hollande, tartly: "And doesn't plan on becoming one."

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Retorted Florio: "I think we would be better off if we paid the developer the $70 million they invested rather than paying these extraordinary costs over 25 years."

    Forbes.com: News Todd Woody 2011

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