"I intend to wait till I do, then," Honor retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only an Irish Girl] Reference

"Spinsterhood is a mistake," retorts Mrs. Mounteagle.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

"A great deal too plainly," retorts Eleanor fiercely.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

So can you talk about trying to write the best retorts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'] Reference

It's got snappy retorts and giant Manhattan apartments.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the network onslaught begins, what if the TV critic picked out shows just for you?] Reference

"I asked a plain question," retorts the lawyer, crisply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

I need not begin to prepare my retorts and my responses.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

The coal is heated in air-tight retorts illustrated by A.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

I rehearsed pointed retorts to any possible snide remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corinne McDermott: Fear Of Flying... With a Toddler] Reference

Mange, who had a taste for coarse jokes and sharp retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

But he wins them over with his brilliance and snappy retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's No. 1 Chinese Son] Reference

"Don't be satirical: it doesn't suit you, Max," retorts Dorris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference

"Well, I can't," he retorts, amiably rubbing his hands together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

"All Irish people are kind-hearted, and you are not so," retorts he.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"If you intend turning the matter into a joke," retorts Mr. Amherst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"You'd never ask a man how many pairs of pants he's got," she retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [South of the Border] Reference

"You cling hard to your faith!" he retorts savagely, her staunchness to.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

He added a P.S. to first think up some retorts for Carl and Ella to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vague Obscenities] Reference

To which the guru retorts: "It is something an amateur cannot recognize.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corpse And The Cult] Reference

"We will make of it an ornament," retorts the Judge, with mounting spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

And their angry retorts and rebuttals resonated in (and clogged) my mailbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Love Me, They Love Me Not] Reference

"And you seem to have a talent for incivility," retorts she, rather nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

When the process is carried on in retorts the products expelled by the heat are saved.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Faust turns from his dreary little world of books and charts and retorts and skeletons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

"Sha'n't budge now till I've finished this pile," he retorts coolly; and the girls laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only an Irish Girl] Reference

~ Coal gas is made by heating bituminous coal in large retorts out of contact with the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Everything is found in these collections, from mere jokes and happy retorts to real novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

"The finite mind cannot expect to understand the Infinite," retorts a theist to our Martian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

"No doubt," retorts Doctor Heath, drily; "yet we are willing to endure your simple explanation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

"We're slowing it down, we're stopping 86 percent of attacks, according to Shin Bet," he retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shark Hunt In The Night] Reference

Schroeder retired in 1996, having made a national reputation with her quick wit and sharp retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Shattered Ceilings] Reference

Scarcely any continuance in folly could have inspired most men to the retorts he occasionally made.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

He finds himself once more amidst his piled-up books, his crucibles and retorts, his bones and skulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

In the pause which was occupied by Bea in considering a choice of retorts stupendous, Robbie spoke again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

"If it's a favor, sir, you take it very uppish," retorts Brooks sulkily, and edging slowly toward the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference