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1. Grinning appreciation at this banter, I go through into the office where Stephen is sitting at a desk
2. A little banter, some gentle jeering and friendly swearing as they danced
3. Up to then, I suppose it had been nothing more than banter but I sensed it was beginning to border on something a little more diabolical and that was when the mood changed with some Athens jazz
4. The boring banter continued and the evening staggered on with Mercouri bragging about how much beer and raki he could drink
5. Once he had settled for himself their relative personal tastes and positions in society and industry, he listened more attentively to the banter with which the three men were engaged
6. Soups and salads and breads arrived momentarily; and the foursome enjoyed several bites of the meal and returned to their former banter
7. Dessert was served and enjoyed, the ladies adjourned to begin packing for the morrow's sailing, the gentlemen and Harry retired to the House Billiards room for cigars and less important banter
8. They laugh at that and after a few minutes banter, Sally stands up and coerces her flock into moving on
9. Thank goodness the kids are washing up the supper things, though a little less of the noise and banter would be nice
10. They spoke with the voices of women of purpose, and even the girlish banter which sprinkled their conversations was gilded with the genuineness of heartfelt joy, lacking the trivial frivolity so mechanically tittered by other young women tiresomely and without depth
11. The gentlemen greeted each other as old friends, exchanged banter befitting sporting partners, and Mr
12. The banter was going a long way to help ease the tension and pain for both of us
13. while keeping up a running banter of anecdotes and jokes with the audience
14. Paul was a little busy, but he managed some banter none-the-less:
15. ” I felt the tears prickling in my eyes at this banter but I held them back for a brave lass who I loved dearly
16. ” The banter petered out
17. This light banter was one of the things she had missed most about him - that and his confidence
18. suggested that they head directly across the Banter Mountains, Manna did not object
19. The Banter Mountains were really just hills, but against the stark contrast of the desert, they seemed to loom up in homage to Illeander in the far distance, yet again obscured by heat haze
20. The sun was half way between its summit and the Banter Mountains that ringed the southern half of this desert
21. Just as the last rays of sun washed their faces, they found themselves at the foothills and realised that the Banter Mountains were just as tough looking as the mountains in Taron where they had met Balzar
22. “We mix it with lime from the Banter Mountains and water and it makes a very hardwearing building material
23. Deeper and deeper into the heart of the Banter Mountains
24. “We stumbled upon a resting place for the Globe in a tunnel beneath the Banter Mountains, East of Illeander
25. It was quite a way from the Banter Mountain range but seemed to compliment them, using them as a dramatic backdrop
26. “We have to get to the Banter Mountains
27. in the girls’ banter
28. ” She wasn’t as used to all this banter as she made out, she couldn’t possibly be
29. Between gasps, he joined Truman and Beth’s lighthearted banter and even shared an occasional laugh – till the coke ran out
30. She could be a fly on the wall, visibly unmoved by the banter
31. Banter about the different presentations filled the air
32. As good meals slaked stout appetites, the banter came to a halt
33. These questions got a boost from Jason’s banter with Greene and his mother, who was not a hard scientist
34. But Ellen sat across the table from him and had a spirited argument with him--an argument during which all his shouting and banter could not fluster her and in which she came off best, flooring Norman so composedly and so completely that he was silent for ten minutes
35. I enjoyed the whistling of course and got the impression it was usual banter when someone new joined
36. I liked the forwardness and banter of the group
37. “Sorry that you caught in the middle of friendly brother banter, Jack
38. “I’m just as glad to have you, Jaromer, but I’m afraid it was none of my doing!” Mark told him, enjoying the banter
39. With laughter and banter, the workers returned to their tasks with gusto
40. ” Her never-ending banter was hard to listen to
41. Their laughter and banter died away as each became lost in his own thoughts about where they had been, what they had seen, and what they were coming back to
42. He liked the banter
43. He glanced at Thanasi, who had a grin on his face and was enjoying their banter
44. “Did you,” said the Dangler with no tinge of it being a question, no hint of wanting to banter
45. of me with their banter
46. female and the teasing banter that used to be a part of my life has diminished to
47. The children would be ushered to bed at a certain hour but would listen to the banter and laughter at the top of the stairs and would scurry to their respective bedrooms when an adult would ascend the stairs to use the toilet
48. Much banter occurred between them over the subject with Matthew
49. The talk and the banter of the older children would often surround what music, television programs or boys and girls they liked
50. They had a canteen where the food was subsidised and the banter among the ‘weekenders’ was great
1. ’ I bantered, turning to face him, twisting in his embrace
2. They bantered back and forth with much flirting and sexual innuendo
3. Nathan and Esther bantered with each other but quietly taking each other’s measure
4. Since Colling had always been a Cubs fan, he bantered with them for awhile, realizing he was getting the worst of the exchange
5. The two of them bantered back and forth, arguing playfully, until Sierra invited listeners to call in
6. the way to the doctor’s office, they actually bantered
7. to look busy while they bantered back and forth
8. They bantered the whole way there and back
9. I like you, too!” he bantered
10. It bantered with the shimmering chemiluminescent things and the giant spiky things a little further above
11. Chantal chattered on in hopes of continuing the lifting of David’s spirit, which began as they bantered at the cemetery
12. When the other two older brothers bantered, Killian did not join them, reserved and subdued
13. “If he’s made captain,” Stacey bantered, trying to lighten things up, “that swelling will be permanent
14. She never failed to give me a hug, and we bantered back and forth the whole time she was there
15. Kallock bantered on how he wrecked two kids in
16. Silas listened as the two wolves bantered back and forth with a frown
17. Ahead, a judge was working at his bench as a few lawyers shuffled paperwork and bantered back and forth
18. The Attractions and I bantered for a while with my Dad under the brutal strip lights better suited for a police interrogation room
19. "There is your opportunity, Monsieur Tarzan," bantered the Frenchman
20. Then Claudia Petrovna and her husband came out, and both of them good-humouredly bantered Velchaninoff about his lawsuit
1. That bantering tone of voice that he started the conversation with had flipped instantly into something far more aggressive
2. In his irregular visits to my cell during the day we discussed many things, although mostly we ended up bantering about my escape
3. allowed him to slip easily into a bantering conversation with the
4. A lot of bantering went on
5. mind!” he said bantering
6. That had been one of the many frivilous bantering conversations they had had from time to time
7. “So bitch,” he asked in a bantering tone, “wanna tell me some more lies or fuck first, huh? You know, we will get it on again, and ya still love me, don’cha?” She gulped against an urge to vomit and her vision spun while internally, she fought her fear – but it was a contest she was losing
8. Vera got along well with my father—Dad bantering as hard as he could go, and Vera following her instincts to charm any male within range
9. Whenever a girl is bantering with me in a playful way, I know she is attracted to me
10. I was so relieved, without asking who this lucky girl was, I seized him in a hug, congratulating him, at that moment Wedon, Jodas and mother arrived, I blurted out the news, that Coatl was in love, and every-one began to congratulate him, asking questions and when he wouldn’t answer we began to make fun of him, laughing at his obvious discomfort and embarrassment until mother called a halt to our bantering
11. Jake had a great reunion with his friend, Ian McClain, and I enjoyed the bantering
12. There was some quiet bantering, but, not much
13. She enjoyed what she was doing, serving drinks and bantering with the customers
14. for him to concentrate in school and what about the college bantering?
15. And perhaps it was just the playful bantering that comes with friends and the illusion of some risk that made this “fun
16. He wasn’t bantering anymore
17. I spent the rest of the shift completing my chores and bantering with the residents
18. And this started a humorous, bantering debate between the men, about what nickname they should use, when referring to her ankle
19. The bantering continued between the two as the
20. Pyotr Petrovitch met her "politely and affably," but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so _interesting_ as she
21. “Enough of this bantering
22. Ned looked at me with a bantering expression
23. The savage spurned the worthless rags, and perceiving that the shawl had already become a prize to another, his bantering but sullen smile changing to a gleam of ferocity, he dashed the head of the infant against a rock, and cast its quivering remains to her very feet
24. Losing patience, they turned to Pinocchio and said in a bantering
25. I did not much like this bantering of Mr M’Queerie, for I saw it made Geordie’s face grow red, and it was not what he had deserved; so to repress it, and to encourage the poor lad, I said, “Come, come, neighbour, none of your wipes—what Geordie has done, is but arles of what he may do
26. From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya’s he had never spoken again to Anna of his suspicions and his jealousies, and that habitual tone of his bantering mimicry was the most convenient tone possible for his present attitude to his wife
27. become peculiarly frigid to his son, and adopted to him just the same bantering tone he used with his wife
28. ‘Oh, I’m not going to separate the inseparables,’ he said in his usual bantering tone
29. She and Deacon had been so sweet together, bantering about whether they’d endured five or, instead, six bad days in twenty-eight years of marriage
30. Pyotr Petrovitch met her "politely and affably," but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so interesting as she
31. After a bit of bantering about the current state of the market, we were all ushered into their conference room to begin a meeting during which we were to review their current portfolio holdings
32. But when they had convinced themselves that this man in the white hat was doing no harm, but either sat quietly on the slope of the trench with a shy smile or, politely making way for the soldiers, paced up and down the battery under fire as calmly as if he were on a boulevard, their feeling of hostile distrust gradually began to change into a kindly and bantering sympathy, such as soldiers feel for their dogs, cocks, goats, and in general for the animals that live with the regiment
33. corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went away
34. And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:—
35. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings
36. Pyotr Petrovitch met her ‘politely and affably,’ but with a certain shade of bantering familiarity which in his opinion was suitable for a man of his respectability and weight in dealing with a creature so young and so interesting as she
37. From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya's he had never spoken again to Anna of his suspicions and his jealousies, and that habitual tone of his bantering mimicry was the most convenient tone possible for his present attitude to his wife
38. He who had been such a careful father, had from the end of that winter become peculiarly frigid to his son, and adopted to him just the same bantering tone he used with his wife
39. "Oh, I'm not going to separate the inseparables," he said in his usual bantering tone
40. “Oh, don’t you begin bantering him,” said mamma
41. He felt that from the first, with his aunt, he involuntarily fell into a bantering tone while talking about serious matters
42. “On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine,” said Pierre in the bantering tone he habitually adopted toward her, always feeling uncomfortable in the role of her benefactor
43. "Yes, I tell you, I am a princess by birth!" and her eyes flashed as she tried to draw herself up and impose on the bantering crowd
44. As soon as he singled me out from the crowd, he rushed towards me, exclaiming in his bantering way: "Well, well, well, this is the first sensible thing I ever knew you to do, come on old fellow;" and he grasped my arm and hurried me away, saying, "I am just glad to see you
1. As he banters gently with them, I try to imagine what he was like when he was younger
2. The banters and dares were forming, the laughter’s were echoing in the rafters, and the dappers were enjoying the flappers
3. As she banters on, she eyes Jimmy guardedly, watching for a danger signal, some shift in his fabricated composure
4. ”Please there is no time for banters, we need to talk now and it is very urgent,” she declared
5. It took them some hours to tidy up customary issues but eventually they emerged from the meeting smiling and exchanging banters, signalling to all that they have consummated my marriage