I know this much, however--that he had business with Levison, as he admitted at the inquest, which he does not want to be noised abroad and mouthed over by the wiseacres of Ottermouth.
Don't you listen to those wiseacreswho are going to put everybody and everything right.
It is said by the wiseacres of the world that you should always set a thief to catch a thief.
Old wiseacres teach that a reasonable man must not contradict himself, and this is a wise, though very narrow, lesson.
And wiseacres call this a proper regard of morals, and point out Baucis and Philemon as examples of a good life.
The incapacity of the military wiseacres borders on idiotism, if not on something worse.
All this confusion is specially produced by the wiseacres and doctors of routine.
History mostly teaches the contrary; but speak to American wiseacres about history!
So speaks the people, and they are right; here among the wiseacres not one understands the superiority of the people over his own little brains.
It is maddening to read all this ignoble clap-trap, written by European wiseacres concerning this country.
During this whole war I hear every body, but above all the West Point wiseacres and strategians, assert that charges with the bayonet and hand-to-hand fighting are exceedingly rare occurrences in the course of any campaign.
Wiseacres put history on the rack to evidence their own ignorance.
Those Congressional wiseacres proved how easily the West Point Engineers humbugged them.
Think of it, youwiseacres and organisers of American armies.
Do the wiseacres wish for an Altera jam teritur bellis civilibus ætas.
What your military wiseacres show you as an organized army, would actually thrill, as with the death-shudder, any European military organizer.
And thus agriculture and industry flourish, the country is not ruined, is not bankrupt, as the European wiseacres took great pleasure in foreboding that it would be.
He was described now as a daring man; and the wiseacres shook their heads as they talked of him.
Very often the king recklessly offended those whom he should conciliate, but even the wiseacres were compelled to admit that his jaunty kindness frequently smoothed out what looked like a dangerous quarrel.
The king was as genial as ever, and the wiseacres surmised from his manner that he meditated going off on tramp again.
Some light is thrown on the question by the following account of measures which rustic wiseacres in Suffolk are said to have adopted as a remedy for witchcraft.
And thewiseacres say there are no real heavers left in the bushes!
You're going to make the wiseacres that think you're down and out look foolish.
Now the Hartford wiseacres found that tremendously far down under their city, there was a sort of sandstone, and they were sure that it was the sort.
Certain wiseacres here began to see political allusions in the Ghost, and many actually took the whole affair to be a cunningly devised political satire upon this or that party, according as their sympathies swayed them.
The wiseacres who shook their heads the other day and pitied while they condemned him are now among the foremost in his praise, and help to make his name a household word.
After the first and second attempts to lay the Atlantic cable had failed, wiseacres shook their heads in sympathetic disapprobation of Mr. Field, and said, 'What a fool he was!
But to us the temples and the sacred pools seem nothing by comparison with the mighty monuments of Buddhism, which local wiseacres have erroneously named the Pandu-Lena or caves of the Pandavas.
At any rate, the Hamilton wiseacres gave the poorer woman the credit of the conquest, and the knowledge of this was the Banquo at Hester's coronation-feast.
I don't begin to believe that he means to offer himself to her, whatever wiseacres may say.
And Amsdorf said: If I were the sovereign I should clap these wiseacres into cells and order them to translate Holy Scripture without making use of Luther’s Bible.
Some day God will let it fall into your Electoral Highness’s hands, and the devil’s wiseacres will be caught in their own wisdom.
The critical jargon of thewiseacres always irritated her.
The wiseacres were smiling at him, he supposed; smiling as the world always smiled at the spectacle of infatuate age mating with tolerant, indifferently acquiescent youth.
With me the wiseacres never could settle which of my voices I ought to have developed--my bass voice, my tenor, or my soprano.
The wiseacres said that a cargo of pig-iron had been badly stowed in the ship's entrails, and was trying to knock a hole in its side, and so it sounded.
Again the wiseacres in their learned ignorance laughed and derided.
But Time has a habit of vindicating the pioneers while consigning the scoffing wiseacres to oblivion.
Some of the passengers, inexperienced in weather signs, thought the worst was over, but the wiseacres shook their heads.
Last night, notwithstanding the cold which has again set in, the Boulevard was blocked up with groups of patriots and wiseacres discussing the state of things, and explaining what Paris would agree to and what she would not agree to.
Dreams, say all the wiseacres in Christendom, are to be interpreted by contraries.
He had nothing but scorn for all the wiseacres who subscribed to the English papers, received daily bulletins and compared market quotations from year to year, getting, for all their pains, results that made them tear their hair.
He succeeded with people who had been given up by the older doctors, wiseacres in long frocks and with gold-headed canes, who trusted more in God than in science, as Rafael's mother would say in praise of them.
The House, therefore, as wiseacres had foretold, was called upon for the second time to decide a contested presidential election.
Already wiseacres were figuring out the probabilities of a Republican victory.
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