He is wise in the salmon, the perch, the trout, the tarpon, and the muscalonge.

If other ladies, far more puissant, famous, and wise than I, have formerly called him by that name, it is not in my power to give him a name anew.

'He who had been the first to found the city, and who was the most wise of any, though the rage was in him like all the rest, and the disappointment and the anguish, yet would not yield.

But if thou knew'st of ought that may concern me, Make me as wise as thou art.

and didn't he sometimes look a hundred, and wise for his years?

While it was marvellously sagacious in what it provided, it was wise to the point of inspiration in what it left unprovided.

Looking up, they saw that a piece of soiled canvas or a skin, held down with a drift-log, fell from under the sled, portière-wise from the top of the terrace, straight down to the sheltered level, where the camp fire had been.

Then be wise with true wisdom; which is, knowing the facts of nature, and being able to use them.

You will be wiser by this time tomorrow.

She is wise beyond her years, with a sense of honor as keen as your own.

Wise on all subjects under heaven!

Such a one is not worth convincing, I wou'd not make the World wise at the expence of a Virtue. Bell.

Believing in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, they taught the colored people to read their own "instruction in the book of the law that they might be wise unto salvation.

It is easy to be wise after the event and hard to follow any counsel of perfection.

"I reckon you don't know Cartwright of the Independent Freighters, but he could put you wise about getting a ship," Vernon resumed.

Faith, and I guess partly so too, but the main wasand I will not lie to youthat, your coming now in this wise into our kindred, I might be acquainted with you aforehand, that after my brother had married your daughter, I his brother might borrow some money of you.

But years rolled on, and the tall ship that swung out upon the broad ocean, and moved forward when the air was still and calmness was on the face of the deep, forward in the eye of the windforward in the teeth of the storm, that stopped not for billow or blast, gave the lie to philosophy, and scattered the theory of the wise like chaff.

" Again, "There are three attainments of the superior man which are beyond methe being sympathetic without anxiety, wise without scepticism, brave without fear.

For if one hath good things to his lot without long toil, to many he seemeth therefore to be wise among fools and to be crowning his life by right devising of the means.

Such happines have they that doo embrace The precepts of my heavenlie discipline; But shame and sorrow and accursed case Have they that scorne the schoole of arts divine, 520 And banish me, which do professe the skill To make men heavenly wise through humbled will.

The two of us held close together, and chose the duskiest thickets, crawling belly-wise over the little clear patches and avoiding the crown of the ridge like the plague.

Twenty years before, Nick had been foremost on the war-path; and what was scarcely less honourable, among the wisest around the council-fire.

Let a commission of the best and wisest amongst Irishmen, with some of our highest English judges added, sit solemnly to hear all complaints, and then let us honestly legislate, not for the punishment of the discontented, but to remove the causes of the discontent.

Anyhow, he was clean and clean-looking, kindly, humorous and wise above his yearswhich were thirty-one.

You do not feel as you do with Richardson that his fabric is spun silk-worm-wise out of himself; on the contrary you know it to be the fruit of a gentle and observant nature, and a stock of fundamental human sympathy.