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• So read I thy illustration, O keen of wit! (10)
• No one had noticed the wit. (10)
• I do not pretend to be a wit. (4)
• She does not pretend to wit. (10)
• As to this wit, it is warlike. (10)
• Her sincerity was equal to wit. (10)
• Dame Gossip is for quoting his wit. (10)
• I have wit enough to escape you there. (10)
• Modern wit is emphatically degenerate. (10)
• But in wit she is no rival of Celimene. (10)
• Thy ready wit the word will soon supply. (4)
• This seemed the last effect of subtle wit. (9)
• The keen French wit is sick of its compromise-king. (10)
• He thanked his cousin Vernon for saying she had wit. (10)
• No, sirr, I wud not have the little wit to repeat meself. (8)
• She is a woman of the most malicious fine wit imaginable. (10)
• She was not one who could be unkind to the professional wit. (10)
• Mr. Elton was so hot and tired, that all this wit seemed thrown away. (4)
• Never had his wit been directed in a manner so little agreeable to her. (4)
• It was clever, and full of the wit that tries its teeth upon everything. (9)
• There is now more savour to me in a silvery laugh than in a spiced wit. (10)
• At this time she was gaining her widest reputation for brilliancy of wit. (10)
• You will really appreciate her wit; you will indeed; believe me, you will. (10)
• Sweetness, song, and wit hung like dews of morning on her grape-stained lips. (10)
• And let none of us be so exalted above the wit of daily life as to sneer at it. (10)
• Thy ready wit the word will soon supply, May its approval beam in that soft eye! (4)
• He was clearly the kind of man whose eyes and wit would sparkle above a pewter pot. (8)
• A quick-witted woman exerting her wit is both a foreigner and potentially a criminal. (10)
• Perry Wilkinson holds a balance when it goes beyond a question of her wit and beauty. (10)
• She thought herself well hidden under her wit and her little harlequin-like grimaces. (12)
• The wit is of such pervading spirit that it inspires a pun with meaning and interest. (10)
• It happens in war as in wit, that all the birds of wonder fly to a flaring reputation. (10)
• Just junk, so many tons of flesh and bone, with not wit enough to hold their appetites. (13)
• Lady Russell had little taste for wit, and of anything approaching to imprudence a horror. (4)
• She had wit to guess that I should never have thought of coming had I not been the winner. (10)
• Poor little woman, perhaps she was thirsty, certainly she was bored, for Flippard was a wit. (8)
• His manly forbearance touched her whose moral wit was too blunt to apprehend the contempt in it. (10)
• Some are for the graceful worldliness of wit, of which they have just share enough to admire it. (10)
• He himself had always liked the French, feeling at home with their wit, their taste, their cooking. (8)
• The question was so startling, from his own daughter, that Pierson took refuge in an attempt at wit. (8)
• Why had he not had the wit to see the chance that lay in that old ruin and use it on his own account? (13)
• The man had a fleering wit, which scorched whatever he turned it upon, and yet it was wit. (9)
• They realize the massive fact that the plain people, for all their poverty of wit, cannot be fooled forever. (16)
• He was primed with wit, as with the garlic he speaks of giving to the game-cocks, to make them fight the better. (10)
• His father, Sir William, was present at the table, and Lord Elling, with whom he was in repute as a talker and a wit. (10)
• The upper class was gained by her intrepidity, her charm, and her elsewhere offending wit, however the case might go. (10)
• At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her. (4)
• Nevertheless, her buoyancy of spirits could not be downed and she continued her play of wit and humor throughout the dinner. (18)
• Unfortunately at a loss for a biting retort, Raikes was reduced to that plain confession of a lack of wit; he offered combat. (10)
• Young Corey laughed again like a son who perceives that his father is a little antiquated, but keeps a filial faith in his wit. (9)
• This killing contempt she transformed into a weapon, the two-edged sword of her wit, and this she turned against her own breast. (12)
• The Camusots and Matifats no longer provide costly orgies for Grub Street, sitting by meekly to enjoy the flow of wit and banter. (16)
• By this, you may perceive that he has entirely regained that chearful Gaiety, and sprightly Wit, for which he was once so remarkable. (4)
• Before the termination of that space De Craye was enchanting Mrs. Mountstuart, and she in consequence was restored to her natural wit. (10)
• They were launched at a carefully selected and critical moment—at the end, to wit, of a long and well-managed series of minor attacks. (16)
• The clowns of the modern circus must needs possess, they confidently assert, more vivacity, wit and observation than their predecessors. (21)
• The wit here is not so salient as in certain passages of Love for Love, where Valentine feigns madness or retorts on his father, or Mrs. (10)
• Good sir, your wit is bright; But wit that strives to speak the popular voice, Puts on its nightcap and puts out its light. (10)
• The point of her wit is in this fashion supplemented by the rattle of her tongue, and effectively, according to the testimony of her admirers. (10)
• You have influence, you have amazing wit, you have unparalleled beauty, and, let me say it with the utmost sadness, you have now had experience. (10)
• Without effort, and with no dazzling flashes of achievement, it is full of healing, the wit of good breeding, the wit of wisdom. (10)
• Visions of a sheriff, attachment and suit for heavy damages oppressed Mr. Forepaugh at once, but his quick wit suggested a way out of the trouble. (21)
• Her humour was a perennial refreshment, a running well, that caught all the colours of light; her wit studded the heavens of the recollection of her. (10)
• Character, that was the mark he aimed at; that moved him to homage as neither sparkling wit nor incomparable beauty, nor the unusual combination, did. (10)
• He is a man of easy wit and repartee, and of tact and practical intelligence; qualifications necessary to the successful conduct of his vocal calling. (21)
• Miss Asper might be deficient in wit; this was a form of practical wit, occasionally exhibited by creatures acting on their instincts. (10)
• Morsfield complimented him over the exhibition of a vastly superior and more serviceable wit, in losing sight of his antagonist after one trial of him. (10)
• The squibs and scandal set afloat concerning him armed his wit, nerved his temper, touched him with the spirit of enterprise; he became a new creature. (10)
• Albeit Brookfield knew itself a student at Richford, Adela was of too impatient a wit to refrain from little ventures toward independence, if not rivalry. (10)

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