But the Woosters are quicker-witted than the ordinary and can read between the lines.

He had shown himself quick-witted about 1829, at the same time as Romieu.

This unfortunate man, after being rendered almost half-witted by having been for the greater part of his life kept a prisoner by his brother the tyrant Abdul Hamid, was now the captive of the Young Turks, and had been compelled by them to make as triumphal a progress as fears for his personal safety would allow through the provinces of European Turkey.