The members of the club will bandy about names while trying to decide who the new members will be. From LearnThat.org.
We now only apply the term bandy to legs. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Bracebridge School Days] Reference
The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Here they have "bandy" matches, ski-ing, and tobogganing, as well as other winter games. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
And his legs are what his regiment call bandy, oh! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
"bandy" as it is called in England has been modified in this country by substituting a flat piece of rubber weighing a pound called a. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
I knew it would be useless to bandy words with him. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
But when the bandy officer was order'd to the coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
She would not take the trouble to bandy words with him. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid] Reference
But I wonder at myself that I should bandy words with you. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
A figure of a pug-nosed dog with bandy legs is very common. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And, indeed, I do not care to bandy recriminations with these. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
How undignified to bandy words with a person she so despised. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
But old lady Chia went on for some time to bandy words with Li. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"Do not bandy words with me, Miss," replied the lawyer, angrily. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Gunnar said he had no mind to bandy words with her, and went away. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
"I didn't come 'ere to bandy no words with you," said Mrs. Bonner. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
Lots of boys pretend they are bandy-legged when they see me coming. '. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Monsieur Ragout and Monsieur Rosbif bandy words; the former is said to. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
"If these two are going to bandy compliments, you and I are not wanted.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Tiny, malformed, and bandy-legged, it was still the spitting image of him. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Fortunata, forsooth, will not have it so; your bandy legs won't away with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
"Don't bandy words with Hrapp," said Skarphedinn, "but give him a red skin for a grey.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
His bandy legs and rolling gait suggested irresistibly the way of a ship at sea, and no. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Libby, however, was apparently sensitive to the need not to bandy Plame's identity about. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Cheney] Reference
You may know that Bertie was angry, or he would not have stooped to bandy words with such a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Pitcher's Trials Little Pitcher Stories] Reference
And then Joe Punchard danced a pirouette ('twas a comical sight, he being so bandy), and shouted. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
I continued to bandy words with the woman I love, whose presence has become the sunshine of life to me. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
Mrs. Chou then went on to bandy a few words with Chih Neng, after which she came over to lady Feng's apartments. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
There were never more than twelve or fifteen of them, a bandy-legged lot, with thick, heavy torsos, and hairy heads. From Wordnik.com. [Shepherd of the Planets] Reference
Pao-yü and Tai-yü make use of some beautiful passages from the Record of the Western Side-building to bandy jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
That short, thick, beetle-browed, bandy-legged, obese man, that so many fresh tourists find so charming, is a Turkish official. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
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