Crossword-Solution: BANTERER 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

For the rest, he was a good banterer, drinking and laughing with his regular customers, hat in hand always before the persons furnished with plenary indulgences entitled _Sit nomen Domini benedictum_, running them into expense, and proving to them, if need were, by sound argument, that wines were dear, and that whatever they might think, nothing was given away in Touraine, everything had to be bought, and, at the same time, paid for.

Spaulding were constantly together during the ensuing ten days, and so skilfully did I behave that the innocent pair regarded the flirtation which I was carrying on as a superb joke--a case of a banterer caught in the toils, and Mrs.

Woodward,” observed his niece, “that you don't practise your abilities as a banterer upon our sex.” “Never! Miss Riddle; that would be ungenerous and unmanly.

Thinking it highly probable that he should ere long have to fight the Algerines, Lord Exmouth had sent Captain Warde of the `Banterer' to Algiers to take mental plans of the town and its defences, which that gallant officer did most creditably, thereby greatly contributing to the success of future operations.

The gunboats, as far as they were able, took up the position allotted to them, but from the shallowness of the water, the _Starling_ and _Banterer_ got aground.