The phone rang, precluding a pithy rejoinder, and as Cynthia was elbow-deep in dishwater, Dean answered.
The best known are the Annales Ecclesiastici, written by Cardinal Baronius as a rejoinder to and refutation of the Historia ecclesiastica or "Centuries" of the Protestant theologians of Magdeburg (12 vols., published at Rome from 1788 to 1793; Baronius's work stops at the year 1197).
There was the sharp rejoinder of unbelief, matched by the reverent mystified faith of the few who refused to go away.
Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.