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Rage At Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time the President, obviously delighted by the boy's recovery, told him banteringly: "You didn't pay me much mind when I came to see you last October."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now you're arguing politics," the first voice said banteringly.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

“Now, boy,” he said banteringly, “don’t you go up there and fall into that lake.”

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

After some chaffering the latter bought the spoon at a price much below its worth, and said, banteringly, as he paid over the money: 'Sukin tu sin, tu vorovat.'

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de