Unable to find a clever reply, I sat stunned and very shaky before he hung up.

"That is a clever reply," said Shermatz graciously.

Considering it was completely off-the-cuff I thought it was a rather clever reply.

Soon the two sisters are happily collaborating in Eppie's dining room, coming up with clever replies to reader letters.

There was no clever reply that Urbaal could think of.

That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply.

"Well..." All the clever replies she might have made and hadn't flooded into her head.

I had no clever reply.

He wished he could remember the name of the pig in Charlotte's Web, to be able to make a clever reply.

The rest of him couldn't seem to think up a clever reply.