More than once have I wandered there, in the late hours of the night, meeting scarce a human creature, but conscious of a royal company indeed, of the witsand poets and players of a far-off time.
At thirty-four he was heard of as the actor of Knowell in Ben Jonson's comedy of Every Man in his Humour[1] and he received the glowing encomium of Meres in Wits Treasury.
The theatre stood near the end of the bridge and was thus easy of access to the wits and beaux of London.
Dolly's Chop-House, intimately associated with the wits of the reign of Queen Anne, has been destroyed.
While she lay silent thus, I was able in some degree to call my wits around me.
They started on their long journey across England by rail, and everything went well till they got into Wales, when Winifred's stupor seemed to be broken into by the familiar scenery; her wits became alive again.
But never had she looked so bewitching as now--a poor mad girl who had lost her wits from terror.
Cibot frightened half out of her wits by the Latin word for an attack of the jaundice.
Royalty honoured them, and all the wits came there, some of those gentlemen who writ verses and dedications being by no means averse to meeting noble lords and ladies, and finding in their loves and graces material which might be useful.
Wits and beauties planned and intrigued that they might be bidden to her house; beaux and fine ladies fell into the spleen if she neglected them.
She thus made acquaintances, while with a clever woman's tact she kept her wits about her and began to "get the hang of the thing," as she expressed it to one of her confidential friends.
We have very pleasant glimpses of the young Irish metaphysician among the wits of Queen Anne's court.
In the long run, wits and legs are pretty safe insurance.
But everybody, except the mice and little birds, are enemies, his only friends being his wits and legs.
I had disturbed his dreams, and he had hardly got his witstogether yet, for he had never been awakened thus before.
Sometimes he is caught napping--so are we all; but if in wits he is not always Reynard's equal, in speed he holds his own very well with his enemy.
But two of the small boys grinned; some one whispered "flicker"; and I gathered my ornithological wits together in time to save the pause and proceed with the service.
But he soon found out where he was, and he had to keep all hiswits about him, or he would have fallen between the cow's teeth, and then he would have been crushed to death.
They were scared out of their wits when the Traveling Musicians came tumbling into the room.
Wherefore the greatest part of the more excellent wits choose rather to employ their studies unto physic and the laws, utterly giving over the study of the Scriptures, for fear lest they should in time not get their bread by the same.
As those which with quick eyes where judgement sits, Thy vindication of poetic wits Do read, may see, whose swelling metres teach All aliens such high English that to reach Is harder than to like or belch forth scandals.
Be dumb, you beggars of the rhyming trade, Geld your loose wits and let your Muse be spayed.
You cannot but have beheld with like zealous indignation how enviously our late mushroom-wits look up at him because he overdroppeth them, and snarl at his brightness as dogs at the Moon.
Thou shalt perceive thy changing Moon-like fits Have not infected me, or turn'd my wits To lunacy.
Call her the Metaphysics of her sex, And say she tortures wits as quartans vex Physicians; call her the square circle; say She is the very rule of Algebra.
Vast Wits must fathom you better than thus, You merit more than our praise: as for us 40 The beetles of our rhymes shall drive full fast in, The wedges of your worth to everlasting, My much Apocalyptic friend Sam.
Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise, Shall see their works outdone in these Essays; And blush to know, thy earlier years display A dawning, clearer than their brightest day.
People in my part of the country say they remember me so, but now I must have this vent under my sense of injury or nothing could hold my wits together.
It is only by resenting them, and by revenging them in my mind, and by angrily demanding the justice I never get, that I am able to keep my wits together.
How can it be, if Sir Leicester is driven out of his wits or laid upon a death-bed?
Her returning wits realized that it was Pauline who was arousing her and urging her to Wilbur's bed-side.
Nature had endowed him with a good memory for names and faces, but he had learned to take advantage of all opportunities to brush up his wits before they were called into flattering, spontaneous action.
I'm anxious though not to lose faith in your husband, and now that I've begun to understand you, mywits are being flooded with light.
Beatrice says: "In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one.
Shakespeare makes a distinction between wits and senses: "But my five wits, nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.
Johnson says, the "wits seem to have been reckoned five, by analogy to the five senses, or the five inlets of ideas.
You may thank your stars there's some one here with her wits about her!
Such a marriage cannot stand for a moment; and if a lawyer like Amyas Belamour pretended it could, either his wits were altogether astray or he grossly deceived you.
Well, better wits haue worne plain statute caps, But will you heare; the King is my loue sworne Qu.
This ciuill warre of wits were much better vsed On Nauar and his bookemen, for heere 'tis abus'd Bo.
But she found herself unable to concentrate her wits on what he was saying, and passed a rather grievous hour trying to look the attention which her brain was not giving.
It followed, therefore, as a matter of course, that almost before she had gathered her wits after the excitement of the journey and the changed surroundings, Barbara found herself afloat upon the whirl of New York gaieties.
She felt that something disturbing was at hand, however, and she braced her witsto manage it.
As Varick sat there, his manner politely attentive but his wits far afield, there sounded dully in his ears all that plethora of sickly, silly inanities with which the society reporter embellishes his spindling effort.
To leave this place at once had been her first impulse the instant she had come to her wits again after Mrs. Lloyd's departure.
By Jaso, sir, your cause is fallen sick, Nor Athens emptying all her wits may heal it!
Nay, I must work, And you will call my wits to otherwheres; Then in the morn these eyes, undewed with sleep, Will show me not the light that must be mine.
What do you mean by coming into a man's place and frightening his family out of their wits by a dream?
He laughed loud and long, and I feared his wits had given way under the strain; for even in the best of days he had been a sparing and a quiet laugher.
But this class of modern wits I shall reserve for a chapter by itself.
For which reason I say, study your race, or the soil of your family will dwindle into cits or squires, or run up into wits or madmen[199].
Bennie's wits were not so muddy as Zephyr's words indicated.
Come on, and while we're on the way, I'll tackle your wits where the Almighty left off.
If my wits were as thick as your tongue, they'd be guessing at the clack of it, instead of getting a wiggle on the both of us.
And with that in a flash my wits came back, and with them the one bit of Gaelic known to me.
While Teresa lived, all was well: but now, with two lives depending on my wits, and my wits not to be depended on for an hour, it does not suit with my conscience to lose time in finding you another protector.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capacity; consciousness; faculty; mind; parts; senses
