Example Sentences

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It may even have twitted that board with its apathy in respect of trespassers.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

Or he might have twitted him with "a _seq_uent king who seeks."

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

More than once people have twitted me with it.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

But Gertrude has set her heart on his doing a female figure; it seems that folk have twitted him with never having produced one.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon

Ought I to have twitted him about his wife?

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles