The Councillor, in his false, theatrical fashion, had cursed the unfortunate projected betrothal, and had heaped reproaches upon Werner, who, of course, was not slow in Retaliating, until at last Ernau vowed angrily that if the faint hope that still existed should prove a certainty, and Egon be found to be alive, the hated betrothal should never take place.
"Quicksands"
Adolph Streckfuss
A silence followed, broken only by the rain monotonously falling on the roof, and occasionally through the broad adobe chimney, where it provoked a Retaliating hiss and splutter from the dying embers of the hearth.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
To-day I think they must have been Retaliating for some mischief our guns had unintentionally done to their Crescent.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson