On this evening this plat was Fraeulein Minona von Rattenfels; and in the midst of Count Treurenberg's most amusing witticisms the guests were all bidden to assemble for the reading in the largest of the three rooms.
She was in a very good humour, and exchanged all sorts of witticisms with Constance with regard to their evening.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them= 5 =within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence.
But as usually happens when a man becomes known for his humour jokes were fathered on Selwyn, just as half a century later any number of witticisms were attributed to Sydney Smith which he had never uttered.
It occurred to him in regard to witticisms and the sight of executions; he did not complain of this, for he knew it would be useless, but he disliked to be regarded as an habitual jester or as possessing an unnatural taste for horrors.
Hence a deluge of witticisms against religion, one quoting a tirade from 'La Pucelle,' another bringing forward certain philosophical stanzas by Diderot.
When the great man accompanied his witticisms with a graceful smile he could always get a laugh.
There is usually a multitude of characters in his dramas, and jests and witticisms are freely introduced, but these in general consist of burlesque disputes in which some clown is engaged.
To repeat all the anecdotes and witticisms which are recorded of the prolific genius of Roger in the simple annals of Laracor, would fill a little volume.
The honorable gentleman says I have poured forth some witticisms of fancy.
I liked his company excessively, and have often regretted I did not cultivate his acquaintance more, or recollect his witticisms better.
Nor were the satires and witticisms of the poets and other writers of the day more effectual than legislation in correcting the extravagances and vices of dress.
The exchange of witticisms and the guessing of conundrums added much to the innocent mirth of a household intent on making the long evenings pass as pleasantly as possible.
He prefaced his homily with what he believed to bewitticisms and quotations of his own.
The attempts at witticisms of the weak-minded are like beating the air with a sword; the notions and judgments of sound brains are like the careful thrust and parry of skilful fencing.
With anecdotes of the back slums, or the green-room, or the witticisms of medical students?
Outside, a gang of young roughs were hammering at the doors, and shrieking witticismsthrough the keyhole.
For where there is such a countless number of witticisms (so-called) as are constantly coming to the surface, and where so many of them are worthless, it must always take a rare discrimination to detect the genuine from the false.
Such witticisms formed no small part of his amusement, and because the innkeeper had humoured him, his intentions towards him had completely changed.
The ladies, however, pretended not to hear, and began conversing with their neighbours without taking any notice of the hoarse laughter of the young bucks, who held it a point of honour to applaud the witticisms of the great patriot.
They contain no large types of human nature; their witticisms convey no luminous flashes of truth; their sentiment is not pure and noble,--it is a sickly and false perversion of the impure and ignoble into travesties of the pure and noble.
You must consign one column to the playful comments and witticisms of Savarin.
I am undisturbed and unattacked in the enjoyments best suited to my taste--for what purpose should I be hurried into the abuse of the journalists and the witticisms of pamphleteers?
I spoke first to Lord Bennington, for I knew he would be the sooner dispatched, and then for the next quarter of an hour found myself overflowed with all the witticisms poor Lord Vincent had for days been obliged to retain.
They all grew excited in listening to him, and ended by becoming noisily gay over the extraordinary witticisms he launched forth.
Afterwards I shall give a small selection from the witticisms of the famous journal to support the bibliography.
No lawyer has given betterwitticisms to the jest-books than Sir Thomas More.
As specimens of a kind of pleasantry becoming more scarce every year, some of Sir George Rose's court witticisms are excellent.
Some of the well-known witticisms attributed to great lawyers are so brutally personal and malignant, that no man possessing any respect for human nature can read them without endeavoring to regard them as mere biographic fabrications.
Or, if he now begins to "jump" with an almost American agility it is because the cleverest witticisms of the Detroit Free Press are now constantly served up to him in the comic columns of his evening paper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witticisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
