Sallies
[sællaɪz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Sally
Inputed by Augustine
Examples
- I have known as many as three copper-plate engravers exchanging the most exquisite sallies and retorts there, at one time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Reform tickets make periodic sallies against it, crying economy, efficiency, and a business administration. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At the uprising of morn, we sat at our repast, and cheated our regrets by gay sallies or learned disquisitions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was gay, playful, fascinating--but never did he overstep the modesty of nature, or the respect due to himself, in his wildest sallies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not that she was inclined to sarcasm and to impulsive sallies, as Mary was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were some sallies and minor successes, and Antony was loud with challenges to Octavian to decide the matter by personal combat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Inputed by Augustine