51 examples of sapient in sentences

Wise, learned, erudite, sagacious, sapient, sage, judicious, prudent, provident, discreet>.

Sapient is now of infrequent use except as applied ironically or playfully to one having or professing wisdom.

The most famous, however, of this class of oracles, was that of Amphiaraus, the father of Amphilocus, which was one of the five principal oracles of Greece; he had signalized himself as a sapient soothsayer in the first Theban war; and his oracle was situated at Oropos, on the borders of Boetia and Attica.

" "It is," said Patty, "and we eagerly await your sapient and authoritative remarks.

And, naturally enough, she only acknowledged Blaise to be a necessary lieutenant, a humble assistant, one whose hand would execute the sapient young master's orders.

Swing, sapient young person, walked casually to the window and watched Luke Tweezy cross the street to Calloway's store.

This sapient reflection in the mouth of one of these gossips, Tib, is a specimen at hand: "A-burnin' and a-burnin', and a-making o' volk madder and madder; but tek thou my word vor't, Joan,and I bean't wrong not twice i' ten year,the burnin' o' the owld archbishop 'ill burn the Pwoap out

And in speaking to him sometimes she would put on a grave and precociously sapient mien, as if to indicate that she had access to sources of wisdom for ever closed to him.

Sapient critics will stop me here with the oft-repeated dictum that photography is not art.

wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens [Lat.], judicious, strong- minded.

But in his sapient eyes I saw the spirit that had urged him on, The courage that had held him through the fight Had once been mine, I thought, "Can it be gone?" He felt that unasked questionfelt it so His pale lips formed the one-word answer, "No!"

Cosimo took the matter up: he re-established all that had been done by his illustrious predecessor, and endowed a number of professorial chairsespecially in chemistry, wherein he was himself an ardent student and sapient expertand kindred sciences, and founded scholarships or apprenticeships for youths of every station.

Miss Bruce was one of these witches, far more mischievous than the old conventional hags we used to burn under the sapient government of our first Stuart, and she knew a deal better than any old woman who ever mounted a broom-stick the credulity of her victims, the dangerous power of her spells.

To Phillips it seemed crassly inconsistent to say that races permitted to intermarry should be debarred by Mr. Chandler's "sapient committee" from educational contact.

There was no doubt of this; and nothing was left for present consolation but sapient resolutions for the future.

But when they were brought before him the animal appeared to survey them with listlessness and inattention; and the king had again recourse to his sapient counsellor, by whose advice they were transferred to the royal bed-chamber, where Bisclaveret was left, without witnesses, to effect, if possible, his metamorphosis.

Washington's letters to his managers are filled with exhortations and sapient advice about all manner of things.

In the "printed directions respecting the reading-room of the British Museum," we find the following sapient veto put upon the readers:"Readers will be allowed to take one or more extracts from any printed book or manuscript; but no whole, or greater part (oh! poor Euclid!) of a manuscript is to be transcribed without," &c.Morning Chronicle.

His preferring the Garden of Eden, to that Where the Sapient King Held Dalliance with his fair Egyptian Spouse, shews that the Poet had this delightful Scene in his mind.

"There live, alas! of heaven-directed mien, Of cultured soul, and sapient eye serene, Who hail thee Man!the pilgrim of a day, Spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay, Frail as the leaf in autumn's yellow bower, Dust in the wind, or dew upon the flower, A friendless slave, a child without a sire.

"I thought it wasn't far," said the sapient Mr. Hogg.

His Paradise is a Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned Or of revived Adonis or renowned Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son Or that, not mystic, where the sapient King Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse[010]

A sapient critic, to whom I have more than once alluded, was pleased to honour me with the following profound remark on the reading given in the original, viz.

In reality, Mir Amman would be wrong if he had employed the reading recommended by the sapient critic; do mahine men means "in two months;" do mahinon men "in the two months" (previously determined upon).

The skeletons, cut animal bones, and flints, Supposed to prove his presence, let's abandon; But on some subjects we should like some hints; When did he come, and what has Sapient Man done To justify his advent?

51 examples of  sapient  in sentences