| 1. | I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer I intended no pointed repartee it was only a blunder.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | "He is a skyrocket," or "she is a firefly," are phrases often used to describe that vivacious individual whose adeptness at repartee puts the rest of the crowd in the background. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | At the same time he inwardly chuckled over his gentle repartee to the blood and ouns champion about his god being a jew. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |