A bantering tone.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Right, because all of this bantering is all about no one?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HowardNotCheadle.com? | /Film] Reference

His glittering eyes rested for a moment in bantering triumph on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

"How much have you lost, Darrin?" called a bantering voice in Dave's ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty] Reference

I loved Logan and Veronica's friendship and their bantering was always perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Win VERONICA MARS Season 3 on DVD | the TV addict] Reference

She laughed at him, but behind her bantering was a new respect for Ward's astuteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

So there is my ground I stand on in the debate- if you can call your bantering debate- TheSeixon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » With Latest Budget, Iraq Costs Top Vietnam War] Reference

When Carson died in 2005, McMahon said he was "like a brother to me" and recalled bantering with him on the phone a few months earlier.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When Carson died in 2005, McMahon said he was "like a brother to me," and recalled bantering with him on the phone a few months earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

'And this,' said Mr Swiveller, with a kind of bantering composure, 'is life, I believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

"Paul Revere" and his compass became the subjects of much mirth, touched, as usual, with a kind of bantering evidence of genuine liking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer] Reference

It did not occur to him to talk to her as to a fine man friend and a kind of bantering half serious companionship sprang up between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marching Men] Reference

"And this," said Mr. Swiveller, with a kind of bantering composure, "is life, I believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

‘And this,’ said Mr Swiveller, with a kind of bantering composure, ‘is life, I believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

She smiled, adopting his own light bantering tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

It seemed to him that small talk and bantering were, as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

His light, bantering tone jarred upon me, but I answered, trying to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference

She tossed her head ever so slightly, while a bantering look came into her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

"What do you mean?" she asked, adding in a half-bantering tone: "Is it haunted?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference

"They did no such thing," replied Eleanor, nettled by her cousin's bantering tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

"You're taking your walk?" he said, with a bantering tone, after a moment's pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

He dropped the battered pencil case into it, and his bantering tone changed instantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

Then dropping her usual bantering tone, she fixed earnest eyes on the black-eyed twins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference

For you must know Rutilius, himself a lender, was bantering Musonius for being a borrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

"I've something to report, Captain," she said, her bantering tone changing to seriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

"How much are you set back in this debacle?" asked the midget, dropping his bantering tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

Then Constance dropped her bantering tone and, closing her own door, came over to Patricia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

"Perhaps he's right -- eh, Marjory?" asked the doctor in a bantering tone as he shut the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

"Your plebes are getting away from you, Miriam," exclaimed the older girl in a bantering tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

Instead, he's the witty scenester spotted bantering with celebrities at the most fabulous parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Boy Blue] Reference

My partner kept bantering me, when I pulled out a roll of greenbacks that made them open their eyes, saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

He held up both hands in mock deprecation; then, dropping his bantering tone, said, as he puffed at his cigar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

Yes, it was in a badgering, bantering exchange with reporters, and no, we don't want to drain all humor from our public officials.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Only Kidding'] Reference

But Rodriguez plops down in a lawn chair, where he signs balls, bats and shirts for hundreds of fans while bantering good-naturedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready For His Close-Up] Reference

The government also introduced a videotape showing Mr. Khadr assembling roadside bombs among joking and bantering al Qaeda militants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gitmo Trial Revisits Days Following Capture] Reference

"Say 'how do you do?' prettily," she cries in a bantering tone, "and don't gape like an overgrown school-boy, if you love me, Bertie!".    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

But this type of "battle of the experts" bantering gets us nowhere productive, and misses the larger points that most need our attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: As Goes Arizona, Whither Goes the Nation?] Reference