"Banteringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Noel. He spoke banteringly, but she could not meet his eyes. "And you think I could ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... the men's room his reappearance had been banteringly commented on, and with good-natured hand-shaking he had been welcomed back; but down here many faces were strange and figures unrecognizable; and with something of shock he realized how few were the years necessary to change the personnel ...
— The Man in Lonely Land • Kate Langley Bosher
... act of service, and also a review containing a disparaging article on his music by Lucien Levy-Coeur;—it was not written in a vein of frank criticism, but took the insultingly kindly line of chaffing him and banteringly considering him alongside certain third-rate and fourth-rate ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... Apparently she did not change expression. Yet he, speaking half banteringly, felt some frightful catastrophe within her. "You are—poor?" she said ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... just an ordinary-looking package. The station will be under a guard and all the roads coming in, too. They are expecting the revolution and ..." She paused and grew red. Dorn's eyes were looking at her banteringly. "You are thinking I have tricked you," she cried, "and that it was only to use you as a ... as a carrier that I ... Well, perhaps it is true. I do not know myself. I told you you could have me. Yes, I give myself to you now ... now.... ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht
... had stopped outside her own entrance; she was evidently waiting for her husband. She called to him jestingly that he had better hurry—she was almost freezing to death. And she lifted her finger banteringly and asked: ...
— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun |
