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Meanings of retort with in English

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Usage of retort with in English
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Young Clark put some tin into the retort with the brass.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
2
Very well: if he has gobs, let us retort with goblets.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
3
Did it never strike you that I might retort with a tu quoque?
Nightfall
4
He has tanks in the field-letus retort with tankards.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
5
Hendrickson tried to rally himself, and retort with pleasant speech.
The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
6
Build up the furnace around and over the retort with loose fire-bricks, and heat gradually.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
7
Before Hector could retort with a speech of his own, his men were drawing back.
Helen of troy
8
The ready retort with which she had learned to parry these personalities was not forthcoming.
Calvary Alley
9
And she did not try to keep her countenance or to retort with futile protests.
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
10
Thompson's lips opened to retort with a sentence he knew would sting like a whiplash.
Burned Bridges
11
He followed up this agreeable retort with a most expressive "Ahem!"
The Doctor's Daughter
12
She had been about to retort with the contrast between Larry's face and his shriveled, hook-nosed grandmother's.
Children of the Whirlwind
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Prickhead's fat jowls turned red as he swept away Huffy's retort with the wave of a hand.
The appeal
14
This was retort with a vengeance.
The Emancipated
15
If I were to murmur gluttons, could not they, from their point of view, retort with conviction fool?
The Solitary Summer
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This roused Joan, and she was on her feet in a moment, and flung out her retort with spirit:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1
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