Reply in sentence

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But when the Grégoires alighted with the parcels, they knocked in vain; at last they struck their fists against the door, still without reply; the house echoed mournfully, like a house emptied by grief, frozen and dark, long since abandoned.

The father and mother were crushed, and did not reply.

Something was certainly striking beside his head, violent blows were approaching him; but he had been too lazy to reply, benumbed by immense fatigue; and now he knew nothing, he only dreamed that she was walking before him, and that he heard the slight clank of her sabots.

They made no reply.

But this reply proved nothing, other than how bullheaded the harpooner could be.

I had no reply to this.

But a Canadian's wit is half French, and Mr. Ned Land made this clear in his reply.

Accordingly, I was content to reply:"Let such circumstances come, Mr. Land, and we'll see.

But there was a perfectly natural reply to these charges, and I made it.

So I was content to reply:"Sir, even though you've cut yourself off from humanity, I can see that you haven't disowned all human feeling.

I asked quickly, hoping the captain's reply might give me a clue to his nationality.

This reply told me nothing.

I let the gallant lad babble as he pleased, without giving him much in the way of a reply.

Without trying to reconcile the contradictions between Captain Nemo's professed horror of continents or islands and his invitation to go hunting in a forest, I was content to reply:"First let's look into this Crespo Island."

But it was impossible to speak, impossible to reply.

In reply to a question Conseil asked me about the growth rate of these colossal barriers, I thoroughly amazed him by saying that scientists put it at an eighth of an inch per biennium.

Captain Nemo didn't reply but signaled me to follow him to the main lounge.

My reply obviously pleased Captain Nemo.

But not knowing what he was driving at, I waited for further questions, ready to reply as circumstances dictated.

I didn't reply, and while staring at these suspicious waves, I began to put on my heavy aquatic clothes, helped by the longboat's sailors.

But my two friends had already encased their craniums in their metal headgear, and they could neither hear nor reply.

Captain Nemo did not reply.

I did not reply.

What's your reply?"

"Ned my friend," I said, "here's my reply.

The captain didn't reply but went to lean against the window.

To this no reply was possible.

Ned Land didn't reply.

I wanted to reply to the Canadian, but words failed me.

The Canadian shook his head, passed his hand over his brow, made no reply, and left us.

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