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Sentences ending with wit

At first he was silent and embarrassed, but Henrica gave him no rest, and when he had once begun to answer her questions he was soon carried away by her glowing vivacity, and gave free, joyous play to his wit. [10]
It took some time to break the ice, but gradually she began to say things, half stories, half poetic, not out of books; things that, if said with assurance, in the city would be called wit. [4]
Where got you that wit? [11]
Would his troubled spirit at least permit him to enjoy and enter without restraint into the play of her quick wit? [10]
At last the Scarabee creaked out very slowly, "Did I understand you to ask the following question, to wit? [6]
Time to report progress from the committee of the whole," and the Senator beamed with his own congressional wit. [5]
A whole generation of men Smiled in the joy of his wit. [5]
Besides, I had not the wit. [9]
She had too many accomplished gallants at her feet to think of Richard, who had no novelty and no wit. [9]
The best of it is when the subject unexpectedly goes cross-lots, by a flash of short-cut, to a conclusion so suddenly revealed that it has the effect of wit. [4]

Sentences containing wit two or more times

Every part of it blazes with wit, but with wit which is employed only to illustrate and decorate truth. [5]

More example sentences with the word wit in them

If you yourself, young man, do not suffer for Alexandrian wit, it will certainly not hurt Caesar! [10]
I said I would if I had thought of it--which was true --but that I was so battered by that man that all my wit was knocked out of me--and so forth and so on, and got myself away, still mumbling. [5]
All over the world One Pastor for the whole of them: to wit, her book, Science and Health. [5]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
Thousand 'stapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies! [6]
Yes, your nimble wit has helped you out of many a tight corner. [9]
Nay, and I will even pledge my word that I will tear asunder the subtlest web which Ursula may spin, in especial if I have Ann's keen wit to aid me. [10]
The lively capital which once reflected the wit and fashion of Europe has fallen into decay. [9]
Whereupon his eyebrows, which met above his nose, were darkly knit, and he gave me to wit, shortly and well-nigh harshly, that he would abide by his own. [10]
Ye wit not what ye ask. [5]
What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
Remember, I have wealth more than wit can number; I have had power more than kings could emcompass; yet the world seems a desert; all nature appears an afflictive spectacle of warring passions. [5]
One of these was the Seigneur, who, when her husband died, leaving behind him a name for wit and neighbourliness, and nothing else, proposed that she should come to be his cook. [11]
Her woman's wit was the first to break the hopeless situation. [4]
The practical faculty was powerful in Bacon; but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp the place of his reason and to tyrannize over the whole man. [5]
Even then it was not love I felt but an unnamed sentiment for one whom I clothed with gifts and attributes I admired: constancy, an ability to suffer and to hide, decision, wit, refuge for the weak, scorn for the false. [9]
Luigi's whole heart was in it, and even Angelo developed a surprising amount of interest-which was natural, because he was not merely representing Whigism, a matter of no consequence to him; but he was representing something immensely finer and greater--to wit, Reform. [5]
His coat, his waistcoat, his shoes and stockings, his trousers, his hat, his wit and humour, his pathos and his umbrella, all come before me like visions of my youth. [12]
It was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain Sellers, and I had wit enough to appreciate it and be proud of it. [5]
During the journey up the Forty-Mile Track to Kilauea, the American enveloped 1/60th of his Majesty's standing army with his Michigan Avenue and peanut-stand wit, and not always, it was observed, out of the hearing of the King, who nevertheless preserved a marked unconsciousness. [11]
He had some touch of wit, some biting observation, and, as he neared the place of the encounter, he played upon the coming event with a mordant frivolity. [11]
Her quick wit told her what was happening. [10]
Her manners seemed to the reporters those of a "lady," and of this both her wit and freedom from prudishness and her courteous treatment of them convinced them. [4]
I shall go to the office of Jacob Penhallow, Esquire, and there make one of two communications to him; to wit, these papers and the facts connected therewith, or another statement, the nature of which you may perhaps conjecture. [6]
He had learned to speak French like a Parisian, had hobnobbed with wit and wickedness from Versailles to Rome, and then had come back to Annapolis to set the fashions and to spend the fortune his uncle lately had left him. [9]
I sprang alertly to meet wit and gossip, my mind ran nimbly here and there, I filled the role of honoured guest. [11]
Now, without attempting to explain, he furnishes me with another witness (Tinsley) by which the same thing is proved, to wit, that the assignment was not manufactured just before the election; but that it was some weeks before. [7]
He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
It is impossible to conceive of any holiday that could take its place, nor indeed would it seem that human wit could invent another so adapted to humanity. [4]
It is thought to be some other sin, but none wit what. [5]
The owner of this estate holds an important position in the Foreign Office, and the hostess has, by her wit and intelligent grasp of affairs, made an enviable place for herself. [9]
To wit, that this dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors. [5]
The Cause of this Deplorable Quarrel, which had its Origin at the Ball, is purported to have been a Young Lady of Wit and Beauty. [9]
In fact, I think there are a great many gentlemen and others, who read with a mark to keep their place, that really "hate books," but never had the wit to find it out, or the manliness to own it. [6]
But in some things she had a quick wit, and she hurried to say: "It was that yellow cat of Parpon's. [11]
Thou hast a thing to say--say it, and see if Nahoum hath lost his wit, or hath a palsied arm. [11]
Only thus do they look whose sharp wit I will answer with still sharper steel. [10]
The first time these ladies clashed, which was not long in coming, my aunt met with a wit as sharp again as her own, and never afterwards essayed an open tilt. [9]
It was still there, he felt; but how much else was also there--of charm, of elusiveness, of wit, of mental adroitness, of joyous eagerness to discover a new thought or a new thing! [11]
Full-grown people brought their perplexities to Tom for solution, and were often astonished at the wit and wisdom of his decisions. [5]
To wit, to the Well of the Earring. [5]
Emerson shows up the weakness of his young enthusiasts with that delicate wit which warns its objects rather than wounds them. [6]
Of late years the prying student of history has been delighting himself beyond measure over a wonderful find which he has made--to wit, that Tell did not shoot the apple from his son's head. [5]
The poet links the most remote objects together by the slender filament of wit, the flowery chain of fancy, or the living, pulsating cord of imagination, always guided by his instinct for the beautiful. [6]
To wit, to the Kameshwar Temple, sacred to Shiva as the Lord of Desires. [5]
I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the districts, drawing, however, at first from each of the four districts--to wit, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth--only, 2200 being the average quota of the other class. [7]
Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. [9]
Master Chipchase turned the colour of his meat, and his wit failed him. [9]
Only once was the Chicagonian's wit not stupid as well as offensive. [11]
I don't know that the town was raving, as they said, about her beauty and wit--there is nothing like the wit of a handsome woman--and amiability and unostentatious little charities, but she was a great favorite. [4]
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. [6]
The leech never talked of daily events, but expressed his views as to other and graver subjects in life, or in books with which they were both familiar; and he had the art of eliciting replies from her which he met with wit and acumen. [10]
Out of the suspicions you bred in me years ago, has grown this result, --to wit, that I shall within the twelvemonth get $40,000 out of this "Tramp" instead Of $20,000. [5]
Some wit once suggested that the national arms of the United States should contain the emblem of crossed frying-pans, and Millicent was in this respect a true American. [9]
He made it sufficiently uncomfortable for the ambushed witnesses--to wit, Mordred, Agravaine, and twelve knights of lesser rank, for he killed every one of them but Mordred; but of course that couldn't straighten matters between Launcelot and the king, and didn't. [5]
The serious conversation spiced with the wit of trained barristers and men of affairs better suited my changed condition of life. [9]
It is not so many years ago since she was a reigning belle, and as noted for her wit and sparkling raillery as for her beauty. [4]
We know that since Gulliver there has been no piece of original humor produced in England equal to "Knickerbocker's New York"; that not in this century has any English writer equaled the wit and satire of the "Biglow Papers. [4]
The title; "Fire-escape Simmons," which Clemens gives him, originated when Oliver Herford, whose quaint wit has so long delighted New-Yorkers, one day pinned up by the back door of the Players the notice: "Exit in case of Simmons. [5]
To wit, he sent an intelligible rescript or translation of his original note, made in a plain hand by his clerk. [5]
I must have sat very silent and preoccupied at the table, where all was wit and merriment. [9]
But, smiling, he said drily across the table, his voice quiet and clear: "My bravest and greatest thing was to answer an English lady's wit in English. [11]
We follow him round as he "peddles out all the wit he can gather from Time or from Nature," and we find that "he has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun," and is carrying about the morning light as merchandise. [6]
Suffice it to recall, with Honora, that Lily Dallam, with a sure instinct, had put the finger of her wit on this new attribute of Howard's. [9]
Riley has a ready wit, a quickness and aptness at selecting and applying quotations, and a countenance that is as solemn and as blank as the back side of a tombstone when he is delivering a particularly exasperating joke. [5]
Ursula's triumphing eyes proclaimed that now she had indeed gained her end; the dullest wit might not miss her meaning. [10]
She had a playful wit, and her talents were far beyond her years. [11]
There is a perfect consciousness in every form of wit --using that term in its general sense--that its essence consists in a partial and incomplete view of whatever it touches. [6]
It was Landrassy's own last battle-field of wit and scheming, of intellect and ambition. [11]
The schoolmistress spoke out, and said she didn't think the wit meant any irreverence. [6]
No marble Cupids or tall Dianas fill the niches in the staircase, and the mahogany board, round which has been gathered many a famous toast and wit, is gone from the dining room. [9]
But it was only yesterday that I told a tramp the square truth, to wit, that, it being regarded as bad citizenship to encourage vagrancy, I would give him nothing. [5]
Then she went on: "They had but small wit that contrived this trap. [5]
If the effect of wit is produced by the sudden recognition of a remote resemblance, there was nothing witty in the naming of this station. [4]
But the critics of whom we speak do not intend depreciation, but eulogy, when they say that the author they have in hand has the wit of Sydney Smith and the brilliancy of Macaulay. [4]
But the bulk of the poor gentlemen were a merry crew withal, and had their wit and their wine at table, and knew each other's histories (and soon enough ours) by heart. [9]
The peculiar wit of the comment, the keenness of the satire made so much of an impression upon me that I called Warner away from his work to look at it. [4]
I am tired of sham and pretence, of cynical wit, of mocking at the real things of life, of pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy. [9]
He was conscious of but one outward thing, to wit, the General, and he was really not vividly conscious of him. [5]
Her wit might not account for it, for that had been cruel. [9]
There was, then, more than beauty and wit and great social gift, gaiety and charm, in this delicate personality? [11]
Her mother was more free and less particular; a troublesome and ugly-tempered beldame, but furnished with a wit above the common. [5]
A whole night might be spent in recounting the stories of his wit, humor, and harmless sarcasm. [7]
Thrown upon the mere resources of wit and language, Mrs. Francis Armour must have been at a disadvantage. [11]
Although not having mastered yet the German language, he exercised a marked attraction by a conversation sparkling with wit, humor, and originality. [6]
His Lordship told many a capital yarn, and my own wit was afterwards said to be astonishing, though I can recall none of it to support the affirmation. [9]
We knew him long years ago, before he came out of the boundless West, brimful of wit and eloquence, with no reverence for anything, and went abroad to educate the untutored European in the subtleties of the American joke. [5]
At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth. [5]
His wit was like the shield of a certain personage of mythology. [11]
Valor, piety, virtue, learning, wit, are by them ascribed to the "great Smith," who is easily the wonder and paragon of his. [4]
The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. [6]
I know not if all courts in the world are the same, but if so, I am at heart no courtier; though I love the sparkle, the sharp play of wit and word, the very touch-and-go of weapons. [11]
There are still houses of the old sort, where wit and good-humor and free hospitality are more conspicuous than expense; but when money selects, there is usually an incongruous lot about the board. [4]
How she magnifies his small wit, and dotes upon the self-satisfied look in his face as if it were a sign of wisdom! [4]
Timagenes exerted all his powers of eloquence, skill in persuasion, wit, and ingenuity. [10]
So he stroked his brow perplexedly a moment or two, and presently said-- "Now I seem to remember thee somewhat--but my wit is clogged and dim with suffering--" "Alack, my poor master! [5]
The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive. [11]
Thy foolish reading hath wrought its woeful work at last, and ta'en thy wit away. [5]
The poor man hadn't wit enough to see that he had blundered, but asked his question again. [5]
If the earl had had wit enough to-- However, there is no occasion for my working my sympathies up on his account. [5]

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