Sentence examples for famous wits from inspiring English sources
Two famous wits were present. . . .
Actresses, celebrities, famous wits at so much a line, and the more untrammelled Social Registerites.
The book is organized by topic — "Fault," "Favor," "Fear," "Feeling," "Felicity" — and populated by famous wits and critics and philosophers, men like Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Omar Khayyám, and Oscar Wilde.
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It is impossible to extricate Odessa's famous wit from the horrors that took place here.
(I sometimes wonder how furious Oscar Wilde, a famous wit, would be if he knew that "a handbag" is one of his most quoted lines).
A dramatist – who wrote The Provok'd Wife while a prisoner in the Bastille, he was also a soldier, famous wit and man about town.
The writer and famous wit Dorothy Parker didn't think much of the collection of beautiful words compiled in 1932 by the dictionary-maker Wilfred J. Funk, who topped his list with words like dawn, hush and lullaby.
That's partly because it would be unseemly of Deborah to flash her famous wit when her new husband, deputy sheriff Dwight Bryant, is distraught over the murder of his ex-wife and the disappearance of his 8-year-old son.
At home there were the first signs of his famous wit and gift for practical jokes; he recalled pretending with Megan to be ghosts, and so breaking up a particularly stuffy dinner party.
Sir John's famous wit and wisdom are not much in demand during this derring-do, which is a pity; but Jeremy's juices are well and truly stirred by the colorful brigands who run Deal.
