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Usage examples of banter.

Gilwyn listened to the banter, unable to eat, pensively feeding Teku bits of fruit.

Virginia had long since gone to bed, and Sam Reddon, who had dropped in for dinner in the absence of his wife from the city, had left after an evening of banter and chit-chat.

A few of them chatted affably, but Seaver knew it was all harmless banter.

Even so, it was not in my heart to banter thusly, though I concealed it well enough.

Hightower knows how to present police procedure in unburdensome detail, and she is flawless at rendering the banter of working cops.

The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.

Cole from the hearse, but the two had no time to exchange banter for the current swung the unsteered barge against the restraining cable and began to drag the upstream rail slowly downward.

Antony slipped out of the window while Cotyla, Cimber and Poplicola clustered around their table and continued their rowdy banter as if Antony were still a part of it.

The lights and the voices from the decks merged in friendly banter and the crew of an East Indiaman loaded the last of the cargo that had been piled on the quayside.

I had become, without any wilful malice on her part, an eye-sore to her and the butt of her bantering jokes, which my sensitiveness exaggerated greatly.

Finished with banter, Prex reached beneath a table, drew out a large coil of paper, and unrolled it.

Creslin swallows, realizing he has never seen, never experienced, such banter.

The rest of Alpha Company had decided not to participate in this particular firefight and were hunched down, smoking cigarettes, eating C rations, bantering and bartering with the civilians.

I watched him as he sat eating, quiet and easy and friendly, exchanging banter with old Mac. Only his eyes reflected the mood that was still boiling inside him.

Sonya even found herself resenting the easy banter that had sprung up between her and Melvin LaVett.