banterer

"But you are afraid, just as any of us would be, to go out there naked, armed only with a knife and a piece of rope," said the banterer.

Tarzan of the Apes 1914

"But you are afraid, just as any of us would be, to go out there naked, armed only with a knife and a piece of rope," said the banterer.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

Madame was fast losing patience, a grave mistake when one is dealing with a banterer.

The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901

"One at a time," replied the banterer; "the Chevalier first, and if he leaves anything worth fighting, I; as for you, my poet, your chances are nil."

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

Dennison played directly into Cunningham's hands, and the latter was too much the banterer not to make the most of these episodes.

The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

He was too much a banterer himself to miss the undercurrent of raillery.

The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901

Consequently Morgan and Mrs. 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. Spinney's manners suggested that she was agreeably flattered.

The Law-Breakers and Other Stories Robert Grant 1896

He regained his health, as thorough a banterer as before, thinking life beautiful, and not seeing why it should not last for ever.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

Sometimes this ironical verbiage brings the blood to my face, and I am tempted to seize this cynical banterer by the throat and choke the life out of him.

Facing the Flag Jules Verne 1866

And, again, "Poor Cranch is almost too much the object of jest; Galway is the principal banterer."

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855