The club did not take the gibes of the opposing club well. From LearnThat.org.
We have seen the kind of gibe with which Agricola's eloquence was greeted at Pavia. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London] Reference
He paused, -- as if to give me time to digest his gibe. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
M. Cuomo "Cabin boy" Quayle gibe masked own budget debacle. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign '92 Edition] Reference
The Doctor did not admire this gibe at his favorite science. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
We must admit that to certain forms of it the gibe is pertinent. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
He turns upon her with a gibe against her ever-shuttered windows. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Lott - Off-cuff TV gibe implies Hillary is currently anti-Semitic. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Elisabeth seemed to disregard the bitter gibe his speech contained. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Those who do not know us gibe at us and throw our sins in our teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
To the gibe about 'Muscular Christianity' Kingsley had his own answer. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Prettyman Sweet was used to being laughed at, yet he flushed at the gibe. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
He flings out this cruel gibe indeed in the most careless manner possible. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Was it to gibe or be friendly that van Rijn responded in pretty fair Planha?. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Father tried to laugh at his mild gibe, but only succeeded in coughing more. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Street Mourning]
“And their bank accounts,” I noted, but she did not rise even to that gibe. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
The favorite gibe of the self-made man is directed against the college graduate. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
Number one carpenter -- give 'em that name Michael One -- and he gibe 'em that name. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
It doesn't gibe with their plutocratic vision of how American society should operate. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Flattau: Smear Job] Reference
Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to gibe to him that is in distress. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
The other turned away with a scornful laugh and a gibe; but the arrow had hit its mark. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
All this talk about ESPN gave this and gave that and gave that, what did ESPN gibe back?. From Wordnik.com. ['Shop Talk': Was LeBron James' Primetime TV Frenzy Too Much?] Reference
No reply was made to Rosalie's gibe and the lesson went on in its usual uneventful manner. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
But Arnold appeared to take it simply and to see no gibe in it, only a pleasant commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Aren't the videos posted on the official White House Web site boring enough? cynics will gibe. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life: White House Edition] Reference
Catulus now spoke because Hortensius, still red-faced and angry at Sulla's gibe, would not ask. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He recoiled from Falstar's gibe with a sneaking shame he dared not defend by a physical outburst. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
The pause was brief, but it was long enough for Ferrol to recognize that his gibe had hit a nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
"Clap on your headphones," cried Bob, too intent on his discovery to pay any attention to the gibe. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
For once Parliament repelled the gibe of its critics that it has ceased to represent the people. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917] Reference
Marster wus good ter us, he gibe us plenty ter eat, an 'w'ar, an' he wus good an 'kind in his talkin'. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Bristol's earlier statements about abstinence not being realistic don't gibe with Candie's call to purity. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Palin’s Abstinence About-Face] Reference
He was not, however, allowed to leave the world without a farewell gibe and a laugh, for Wit knows no mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
And the gibe went again as a poisoned shaft to the wound that was lying as a canker in the breast of Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Mr.W. S. Gilbert, according to a world-travelled newspaper paragraph, let off the gibe at his friend Mr. Burnand. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
And charging that Obama has wanted to be president since he was in kindergarten was the most boneheaded gibe in memory. From Wordnik.com. [’Twas the Month Before Iowa ...] Reference
The best satire is always grounded in optimism: faith in the writer's power to gibe and cajole a dormant conscience to reform. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story," reviewed by Ron Charles] Reference
And so we rattled along from one gibe to another till we mounted our donkeys, rode out from the temples and started for the steamer. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
The gibe that followed this remark was cut short by the approach of the lighter on which the passengers were to be carried to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
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