It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening Bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
It is a clear injustice to confound such talk as this with a mere Bandying of Joe-Millers.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
"Talk not of it, my friend; for this is no time to stand Bandying compliments," answered the Captain.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston