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"What a large bold animal it is," remarked Clara, in die tone of one who wishes to be confirmed in an impression but indifferently entertained. "See how close it approaches the boat! Mad that lazy sailor but his wits about him, he might easily knock it on the head with his oar. It is it is a beaver, Madeline; I can distinguish its head even with the naked eye."
On such an occasion, directly the cause was over he would turn round and say, laughingly, to his discomfited opponent, "You haven't your wits about you this morning why didn't you quote such and such case?" or "say so and so?"
He stared at me, his slow wits scarcely translating my words. Seemingly the man had but one idea in his thick head. "How know you the truth of all you have said?" he asked. "Where learned you of this wealth?" "By overhearing conversation while hidden behind the curtain in La Barre's office. He spoke freely with his aide, and later with Cassion.
A confused but subdued clamor drowned Rybin's voice. "Don't argue, uncle. You're up against the authorities." "Don't be angry, your Honor. The man's out of his wits." "Keep still, you funny fellow!" "Here, they'll soon take you to the city!" "There's more law there!"
You may sound these wits and find the depth of them with your middle-finger." It seems to have been taken for granted by Waller, as afterwards by Dryden, that our elder poets bestowed no thought upon their verse. "Waller was smooth," but unhappily he was also flat, and his importation of the French theory of the couplet as a kind of thought-coop did nothing but mischief.
She was therefore at her wits' end how to get the drink, for the drink she would have. Johnson, with his characteristic decision, had gone round to the different publicans in Langhurst and the neighbourhood, taking Ned Brierley with him as witness, and had plainly given them to understand that he would pay for no more drink on his wife's account.
Ninon christened the society "Oiseaux des Tournelles," an appellation much coveted by the beaux and wits of Paris, and which distinguished the chosen company from the less favored gentlemen of the great metropolis.
Alaire was agreeably surprised in Paloma Jones, for, although the girl was wrought to a pitch of hysterical excitement, she had, nevertheless, retained her wits; nor had she faltered in the slightest. It was evident that the fighting blood of her father was aroused in her, for she said, calmly: "When it gets light enough to shoot, I'm going to get Tad Lewis."
Jimmy's wits were sharpened by this catechism, and his ideas improved and grew apace. He even admitted that he had studied the sales methods of other firms and apparently gained the elder man's approval for his activity and judgment.
"Keep back, Isabel," said Lawrence: then, running across the turf, "Drop that, Janaway! drop her!" in the hard authoritative voice of the barrack square. With the fitful docility of the mad, Janaway obeyed, and directly he did so Lawrence checked and stood on the defensive, taking a moment to collect his wits he had need of them: he had to make his head guard his hands.
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