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But Bill was wittier than Jack was, and before he went out, he threw the ribs of hair into the fire secretly. When he came in the old woman said, "Your brother killed my three sons, and I killed him, and I'll kill you along with him." And she put her gloves on, and they began the fight, and then Bill called out, "Help, horse."
It was not that he was wiser, or wittier, or more profound, or more radiant with humor, than some other distinguished men; the shades of Macaulay, Sydney Smith, De Quincey, and Coleridge rise up before us from the past, and among his contemporaries we recall the sallies of Tom Appleton, the charm of Agassiz, of Cornelius Felton, and others of the Saturday Club; but with Dr.
Nevertheless, Anne keenly enjoyed her walk through the great gray maze of the beechlands; though alone she never found it lonely; her imagination peopled her path with merry companions, and with these she carried on a gay, pretended conversation that was wittier and more fascinating than conversations are apt to be in real life, where people sometimes fail most lamentably to talk up to the requirements.
Johnny Denny or Dinny Johnny as he was known to his wittier friends was a young man of the straightest sect of the Cork buckeens, a body whose importance justifies perhaps a particular description of one of their number.
Love and respects to Edith. Yours sincerely, The eclogue was entitled "The Ruined Cottage." His romance. "Rosamund Gray." Use. November 8, 1798. I perfectly accord with your opinion of old Wither. Quarles is a wittier writer, but Wither lays more hold of the heart. Quarles thinks of his audience when he lectures; Wither soliloquizes in company with a full heart.
The freshness and novelty of its surroundings Japan had not then, so to speak, become the property of the man in the street counted for something in the triumph of 'The Mikado, but it is unquestionably one of the very best of the series. Mr. Gilbert never wrote wittier or more brilliant dialogue, and Sullivan never dazzled his admirers by more astonishing feats of musicianship.
You see, you don't do it well. We admit East Side Jews here and they are so much quicker and wittier than you country girls from Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and Heaven knows where, that you might just as well give up and try to be ladies instead of humorists. Come, we will take a look at the Home." By now Una was resolved not to let Mrs. Fike drive her away.
So we think, whatever you think: and whose thoughts are to be preferred? You may be wittier than we; but, if you were wiser, we have lived some of us, let me tell you, to very little purpose, thirty or forty years longer than you. I have written as long a letter as yours.
He had never been wittier, never more convincing, never so magnificently vituperative. Andrew was lifted out of himself. He jumped in ecstasy to his feet. It was he who led the applause. He felt that this was a worthy close to a brilliant career. We oldsters looking on more coolly could have seen where the speech was lacking, so far as Andrew was concerned.
I don't blame him for preferring other girls' society. He would show very little taste if he did not enjoy Ella Perry's company better than that of a tongue-tied thing like me. She is a thousand times prettier and wittier and more graceful than I am." "Nonsense," exclaimed Lucy. "She is a flirt and a conceited little minx.
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