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Definition of Riposted
1. riposte [v] - See also: riposte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riposted
Literary usage of Riposted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"'It's my belief you wouldn't know one if you were led right up to it by the hand,'
he riposted quickly; 'and in this world you've got to see a thing first, ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1901)
"The little woman, attacked on a sudden, but never without arms, lighted up in an
instant, parried and riposted with a home-thrust, ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"Collier at once riposted with his Defence of the Short View, etc. Farquhar is
the probable author of The Adventure» of Covent Garden, which replied to ..."
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