sally

A sally of the tongue may invite a counter sally of the fists.

only one shadow lay over Sally's life.

she lay on the mattress listening to Sally's snores.

(against) counter with surprise sallies against the besiegers

Sally gave her award pride of place on the mantelpiece.

In a sally at the end of the debate the candidate elicited much laughter from the audience.

they went to their favourite cafe—Owen and Sally tailed along.

If Sally got her act together she’d be a great musician.

When Sally was a baby she used to cry morning, noon and night.

A middle-aged lady came into our compart ment and sat opposite Sally.

A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.

Sally’s got very strict ideas about how her children should behave, so mind your P’s and Q’s.

Some birds take the “wingman” approach to scoring a mate, the ornithological equivalent of two guys sallying up to a hot girl in a bar in hopes that one will get lucky.

The grate at the sally port.

" Yes, " observed the chemist; " no imagination, no sallies, nothing that makes the society-man" .

Suddenly the crossbowman was back. " Go round to the sally port and they'll admit you" .

Julien laughed heartily at this sally of his wit.

' At this sally, the boys laughed.

They laughed and joked at poor Joseph, and their ferocious sallies were wafted into the pattern-room.

This sally was greeted with an outburst of laughter.

Wait till I sally in on a stallion with the first black battalion.

Not that she was inclined to sarcasm and to impulsive sallies, as Mary was.

I think that one looks a lot like sally field.