You Wits o'th' age, You that both furnisht have, and judg'd the Stage.

I should esteem my self a very happy Man, if my Speculations could in the least contribute to the rectifying the Conduct of my Readers in one of the most important Affairs of Life, to wit their Choice in Marriage.

He is many times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast.

Witchcraft reigns there, and raises to renown Macbeth and Simon Magus of the town, 30 Fletcher's despised, your Jonson's out of fashion, And wit the only drug in all the nation.

The present plantation started after my own Christian name, to wit "Dear Duncan!!"

"I got a girl, but she's goin' wit another feller.

10 Satire was once your physic, wit your food: One nourish'd not, and t'other drew no blood: We now prescribe, like doctors in despair, The diet your weak appetites can bear.

You should practise this, counting one, as you lean backward, drawing but not turning the hands backward and upward; two, as you straighten yourself wit the hands down, and three, as you repeat the first movement; and, except in making a water jump, or some other very long leap, the 'two' will be the shortest beat, as it is in the waltz.

'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv.

'IT has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' lxiv.

He had visited these towns wit the object of laying before the Sovereigns of the Balkan States and their Ministers proposals for abolishing war by the creation of a European Federation of States.

What will wit avail people who don't speak, or craft those who have no affairs to transact?

a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

He is many times flat and insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast.

What, save to confess ourselves a very stupid race, who for twelve hundred years could not discover, or at least use the boundless wealth which God had given us, because we had not wit enough to invent so simple a thing as a steam-engine.