Most of them were quacks, and none of them were a match for the quick-witted woman, who seemed to flourish on murder.
Three months or so before his release, Wilde had noticed, among the prisoners who took exercise with him, a young prisoner who was obviously either half-witted or trembling upon the verge of insanity.
French Commander-in-Chief to carry out the disposition as it was for the quick-witted British Commander to prevent it.
The niece, being a quick-witted girl, would naturally think the problem out for herself, and decide that there was something fishy involved in the mystery of these unnecessary phrases.
Ladybird didn't do this for the logical reason that two half-witted people ought to count as one, but because she was impatient to get the introductions over with and begin the party.
But the shrewd, capable woman had schemed and plotted too, and had made use of her son, her poor half-witted Harry.
The eyes which he saw were, in truth, only the two buttons at the back of a frock-coat: perhaps some traditional memory of their meaningless character gave this half-witted prominence to their gaze.
He seemed about to speak, but was forestalled by the quicker witted Du Mont.
The half-witted and ill-bred child, of whom he becomes the dupe, as well as the two idiot servants, are delineated with equal vivacity.
Money passed from the girl's hand to that of the half-witted youth.
But the doctor put the half-witted lad aside and examined the child.
Yet, under this perfunctory rebuke, his weak vanity could not be hidden, and he enjoyed the evident admiration of a creature whom he believed to be half-witted and degraded all the more keenly because it did not make him jealous.
The light touch momentarily recalled him to himself and her, but not until the quick-witted girl had had revealed to her in one startled wave of consciousness the full extent of Lance's infirmity of temper.
He did this with a manner quite different from the careless, easy attitude he had assumed toward Flip; at least the quick-witted girl noticed it, and wondered if he was angry.
On the afternoon of the third day they thought that they had out-witted their pursuers, and halted to rest.
He was a small, but keen-witted man called Jeremy Stickler, and I liked his company.
But the quick-witted Bartley took the alarm, and literally collared him.
You will do nothing of the kind," said the quick-witted girl.
The quick-witted villain saw the pressing danger in a moment.
And if he can take in every dull-witted squire in the Isle just for mirth and play, what do you suppose he can't do, when he is to gain a fortune by doing it?
I was much too slow-witted to give the right answer, and blundered something about being preoccupied with the pleasure of seeing her.
The quick witted equestrienne read his face like a book.
An hasty-witted body Would say your head and butt were head and horn.
Alone in this isolation, pitted against shrewd-witted men lusting for his downfall, what chance had he?
Here a floating straw of reminiscence may be cited, since it throws momentary light on the mischievous instincts of a quick-witted boy.
Gentlemen," says they, "what think you he did not learn among those sharp-witted Hessians?
A quick-witted woman exerting her wit is both a foreigner and potentially a criminal.
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