All sorts of rough jests and catchwords were
bandied about among them; and the story of the Diamond turned up again unexpectedly, in the form of a mischievous joke.
There were desperate lunges at these chosen spots seemingly every instant, and most of them were
bandied like light toys between the contending forces.
Strange rumours began to be
bandied about -- rumours of murdered immigrants and rifled camps in regions where Indians had never been seen.
Loud laughed the foresters, as jests were
bandied about between the singing, and louder laughed the friars, for they were lusty men with beards that curled like the wool of black rams; but loudest of all laughed the Tinker, and he sang more sweetly than any of the rest.
As the crew toiled on, Laplandish speculations were
bandied among them, concerning all these passing things.
There is not an excess of delicacy or chivalry in the ordinary country school, and several choice conundrums and bits of verse dealing with the Simpson affair were
bandied about among the scholars, uttered always, be it said to their credit, in undertones, and when the Simpson children were not in the group.
"There's nothing wrong with a few harsh words being
bandied around the dressing room.
'ICONIC' is, perhaps, a word
bandied around all too freely but, when applied to the mould-breaking Golf GTI, it can be used with genuine justification.
Yes, it's potential, but there are plenty of names
bandied about, so I'll bandy his name about."
How can we take what Mr Harris says seriously if he draws conclusions on such a small and unrepresentative sample and uses job figures which he says have been "
bandied" about by the Circuit of Wales consortium?
It is now
bandied about constantly and has subsequently completely lost its true meaning.
"All these names being
bandied about, some of the people whose names have been put forward for that, the mind boggles," he said.