Seeing that he still slept profoundly, though appearing, by occasional movements of his arms, to entertain certain passing dreams of single combats, the quick womanly wit of Mrs. SMYTHE finally hit upon the homoeopathic expedient of softly shaking his familiar antique flask at his right ear.

I was in the case of a man whose friend has asked him his opinion of a certain young lady; the deluded wight gives judgment against her in toto,don't like her face, her walk, her manners; finds fault with her eyebrows; can see no wit in her.

Keep your eyes open and your wits about you.

A seal came and looked up at me, big tears rolling from her eyes; then she flippered aimlessly away, out of her poor wits with terror.

"Now, youngster, we must keep all our wits at work.

Cleontiusbut I will, By Jove, Madam, I must not have a Mistress that Has more Wit than my self, they ever require More than a Man's able to give them.

I knew that Darrow would hurry as fast as he could back to the valley by way of the upper hills; I knew that he had there several sporting rifles; and I hoped greatly that he and Dr. Schermerhorn might accomplish something before the men had recovered their wits to the point of foreseeing his probable attack.

For underneath Billie's lightness they knew that she was still puzzling her wits for some way to pay for that broken statue.

Again he would be startled out of his wits as a large brown bird whirred and fluttered away from under his very nose.

Her favour it was fill'd the sail of the Trojan for Latium bound; Her favour that won her Aeneas a bride on Laurentian ground, And anon from the cloister inveigled the Virgin, the Vestal, to Mars; 70 As her wit by the wild Sabine rape recreated her Rome for its wars, With the Ramnes, Quirites, together ancestrally proud as they drew From Romulus down to our Caesarlast, best of that bone, of that thew.

"All Richmond," and that meant a good deal in a city whose women had been adored for beauty and wit on two continents, received Mrs. Atterbury's bidding to her drawing-room with proud alacrity.

It's your wits against my wits.

'All general reflections upon nations and societies are the trite, thread-bare jokes of those who set up for wit without having any, and so have recourse to common-place.'

"By the breath of my body!" said Little John, as soon as he could gather his wits from their wonder, "sawest thou that,

In his high and decisive tone, he has been often heard to say, "lord Chesterfield is a wit among lords, and a lord among wits.

" "Like a snowflake," you murmur, for you fancy that you have a pretty wit like Will Honeycomb.

The moon, it has been said, makes lunatics; he accordingly puts a man's wits into that planet.

The contest of wits between two such men as Sharkey and Craddock appealed to the Governor's acute sense of sport, and though he was inwardly convinced that the chances were against him, he backed his man with the same loyalty which he would have shown to his horse or his cock.

The man whose calm eye was watched for the quiet sparkle that announcedand only that ever did announce itthe flashing wit within the mind, by a gay crowd of loungers at Arthur's, might be found next day rummaging among coffins in a damp vault, glorying in a mummy, confessing and preparing a live criminal, paying any sum for a relic of a dead one, or pressing eagerly forward to witness the dying agonies of a condemned man.

Plutarch extols Seneca's wit beyond all the Greeks, nulli secundus, yet Seneca saith of himself, "when I would solace myself with a fool, I reflect upon myself, and there I have him."

"It is a highly improbable one," I began with some natural shyness at the idea of airing my wits before this master of inductive method; "in fact, it is almost fantastic.

"'But,' said I again, 'Blackstone says' "'Confound that Blackstone,' she exclaimed; 'I do believe he has driven the wits out of the man's head.

also, sir, wit ye

It was after they had blended wits over the writing of this comedy that Steele expressed his wish for a work, written by both, which should serve as THE MONUMENT to their most happy friendship.

Now maybe this is some famous hero or knight who hath lost his wits through sorrow or because of some other reason, and who hath so come to this sorry pass.