| Those who don't smile at Arnold's witty retorts have hearts of true solid granite. |
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| Just as I expected, Brand was ready with his witty retorts as I swung open the door. |
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| Graham's retorts may have been biting and sharp, but Shamus had no trouble thinking up a comeback with his cool, unconcerned manner. |
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| In the factory there were a number of iron retorts, and with them several tons of pitch were also distilled. |
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| Ore has been processed in large retorts in the past, but most recent operations use several types of furnaces. |
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| Every scene made me cringe as he mugged for the camera and offered those interminable witty retorts with that knowing gleam in his eye. |
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| The smelters will require 25000 tons of charcoal per annum which will be produced in retorts supplied by the Belgium company, Lambiotte. |
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| One of the more uncouth retorts was delivered by a hitter when the ump called a strike on a shoulder-high fastball. |
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| The first experiments with the caustic potash purification had been conducted in glass retorts, but they were less successful when scaled up. |
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| The COO retorts that people need the benefits, and anyway, the important thing is paying down your debt. |
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| All you have are pat answers and glib retorts that turn out, on ten seconds' worth of thought, to be mindless platitudes. |
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| The shod hiker retorts that it is not the bear he needs to outrun, merely his fellow hiker. |
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| The same was true 100 years ago, before the invention of the SEC, retorts Ms Romano. |
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| The thawed tuna is then loaded onto metal racks, which are wheeled into large steam pressure-cooking chambers, called retorts. |
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| He was adept at answering simplistic criticism with simplistic retorts. |
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| She was brilliant, there was no doubt about that, but when it came to escaping from awkward situations, coming up with valid excuses or witty retorts, she was useless. |
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| If mercury is used in mineral processing, retorts or alternative mercury recovery techniques must be used. |
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| I certainly hope I've never lost touch with that aspect of my profession, retorts Santi, with a hint of scepticism. |
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| To those who argue that technological progress will offset environmental damage, he retorts that the costs would be exorbitant. |
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| Balderdash, retorts Axel Springer. Even if Axel Springer's announcement is a negotiating ploy, its timing is a blow to Kirch. |
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| This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts. |
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| Once in the job he feels somewhat daunted by his responsibility for the commissioning of new retorts at the gasworks without the support of other professional engineers. |
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| Their retorts, their charm, their craziness, their obsessions, their fears and their paroles astonish every counselor. |
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| Greeting one another with the sort of hyperbolic flattery associated with female bonding, they bat away compliments with the requisite self-lacerating retorts. |
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| Cleanthes retorts that Demea denies the facts, and offers only empty hypotheses, which, if intelligible at all, could only establish their bare possibility, but never their reality. |
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| Prizewinning composers will have to send the orchestra material engraved, complete, with retorts if necessary and practicable turns, to the CMF postmarked before April 30th, 2011, at the risk of loss of their prize. |
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| Mr Nikolić has even said, grudgingly, that he would arrest Ratko Mladić, a fugitive general who is wanted by the war-crimes tribunal. One official retorts tartly that saying you are pro-European costs nothing. |
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| The policewoman retorts me that if I decide to remain in Sherbrooke: King of the kings and Lord of the lords that will decide for you the moment that we will bring you there. |
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| When Mr Carney and Mr Flaherty tried to jawbone businesses into investing some of this money last year Mr Carney called it dead money they were met with angry retorts. |
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| Frothing yeastlike inside it, though, causing it to lighten and rise alarmingly, is a second war: the hedgerow insurgency of objections inserted as reader's notes by Meg and Amy, along with Joanna's counterinsurgency retorts. |
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| Typical applications include jacketed kettles, retorts, vulcanizers, jacketed sterilizers or other contained equipment where air could accumulate in remote areas of the steam chamber and reduce heat-transfer capacity. |
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| Air can accumulate in remote sections of chamber-type heat-transfer equipment such as jacketed kettles, retorts, vulcanizers and jacketed sterilizers. |
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| The lid is placed on the can and hermetically seamed or sealed, conveyed to a can washer to ensure can cleanliness and then transferred to the retorts. |
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| The crushed ore is then heated in either retorts, at small operations, or furnaces, at large operations, to the temperatures at which mercuric sulphide sublimates. |
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| Each set of 20 Fushun retorts shares one condensing and cooling system equipped with two recuperators, two gas blowers and two air blowers. |
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| Beatrix reminds her mother of the book she wrote, and her mother retorts she believes the venture will fail. |
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| The idealising side of Furman's contruction exposes itself to the tu quoque retorts with which Putin and his aides now relish silencing criticism by the West. |
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| Holworthy, in 1818, patented a method of purifying it by causing the gas, in a highly condensed state, to pass through iron retorts heated to a dark red. |
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| Retorts are the most employed of any kind of distilling vessels in the practice of modern chemistry, having in England almost superseded the use of all others. |
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