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Daisy, who seldom thinks anything worth giving an opinion on, said yestereven, when they were bantering eache other in Robin Hood's Walk, "I'm glad, Meg, she fancies your husband insteade of mine."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

I found that the Pew and the Pulpit were bantering each other at a great rate, and seemed determined to tell each one the other's faults.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

They were bantering Mr. King about his Narragansett excursion, his cousin having maliciously given the party a hint of his encounter with the tide at the Pier...

From Their Pilgrimage by Warner, Charles Dudley

A heavy lurch of the little vessel threw her sprawling on the deck, and I noticed that, while the other natives were bantering her, she was crying bitterly.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

For though cook called him a dear man, it almost seemed at first as if she were bantering him, till it was taken into consideration that every eye forms its own beauty.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville