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1. Snapping the watch lid shut, he bandied a few insignificant pleasantries with a correspondingly inconsequential neighbour, and went inside; thence, pausing briefly to catch his breath before the ascent, he proceeded up the stairs to his apartments on the first floor
2. They wanted me to get out there and counter the comments being bandied about by Angelo and Sylvester; and I agreed with them
3. At this time a struggle over the Immigration Bill is being bandied back and forth, the House has its version and the Senate has its version, rumors indicate that Grassley’s unconstitutional insertion of Title III provisions will result, not in a House/Senate Conference Committee ironing out their differences, but the Senate Bill will be returned to the Senate for rewriting or to be killed
4. He truly is an immortal, not like some of the other names that get bandied around now days
5. ‘As I’ve already told you, you’ve screwed up! Your name’s been bandied around in association with that dead poofter
6. Holy and should not be bandied around too lightly
7. Estate tax, or the death tax as it is sometimes referred to, is an issue often bandied about at election time
8. Common names that Mark had heard bandied about on the street: snot, junk, bombers, Miss Emma, White Lightening, sugar cubes
9. high plight, bandied and ready for action
10. Most of them revel in the theatrics of their trade; old phrases are bandied about, and traditions are held nearly sacred
11. As the crew toiled on, Laplandish speculations were bandied among them, concerning all these passing things
12. The foulest abuse and the vilest epithets were bandied about on the most frivolous occasion
13. How often it happens that for years one sees a family cover themselves over with a conventional cloak of decorum, and preserve the real relations of its members a secret from every eye! How often, too, have I remarked that, the more impenetrable (and therefore the more decorous) is the cloak, the harsher are the relations which it conceals! Yet, once let some unexpected question—often a most trivial one (the colour of a woman’s hair, a visit, a man’s horses, and so forth)—arise in that family circle, and without any visible cause there will also arise an ever-growing difference, until in time the cloak of decorum becomes unequal to confining the quarrel within due bounds, and, to the dismay of the disputants and the astonishment of the auditors, the real and ill-adjusted relations of the family are laid bare, and the cloak, now useless for concealment, is bandied from hand to hand among the contending factions until it serves only to remind one of the years during which it successfully deceived one’s perceptions
1. Nicholson had broad features, and a long torso, with big shoulders but short, bandy legs
2. their patch and bandy swords with the bastards
3. Forté was tall, obviously strong, barrel-shaped in dark green shorts and shirt, standing firm on powerful, shapeless, slightly bandy, hairy brown legs
4. Most lotions and moisturizers nowadays bandy an antioxidant formula specifically targeted to those who are concerned about the free-radical
5. She looked at his white, bandy legs and frowned
6. I had no wish to bandy about pleasantries with these men as I wanted them to feel the full embodiment of my misery and pain
7. "Bandy the Rodeo Clown"
8. A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up
9. They have short, bandy legs, you see, and heavy bodies
10. The blue-gray bandy legged dog ran merrily along the side of the road, sometimes in proof of its agility and self-satisfaction lifting one hind leg and hopping along on three, and then again going on all four and rushing to bark at the crows that sat on the carrion
11. He was a man of no great height, a bandy statue swiped from some country garden perhaps, and his clothes, like the clothes of most in Ireland, too often laundered by the weather, and his hair too often grayed by the smoking air, and his cheeks sooted with beard, and a nest or two of witless hair in each cupped ear, and the blushing cheeks of a man who has stood too long in the cold and drunk too much in the pub so as to stand too long in the cold again
12. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so important, to raise his hand as if to strike him
13. " I did not come to bandy words with you
