That you maye easily finde the place where the Bées lodge, whether the same bee farre or neare hand, Palladius teacheth the same wittily in this manner.
As opponent he wittily follows Gillray, who in 1802 imagined an inoculated man as calving from his arms.
Let the chastisement of Juvenal be never so necessary for his new kind of satire; let him declaim as wittily and sharply as he pleases; yet still the nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.
Juvenal has railed more wittily than Horace has rallied.
A poor puppy with an empty can tied to his tail, Thomas Carlyle wittily observes, ran and ran on, frightened by the noise of the can.
Of course he erred," wittily comments our author, "but how humane it is to err thus!
A like judgment was expressed more wittily by the people, who erected a monument to Adrian's physician and labeled it, "Liberatori Patriae.
To talk wittily and well, or to lead others to talk wittily and well, was the crowning gift of these women.
De Graffigny wittilysaid that it "escaped from the hands of Nature when there had entered into its composition only air and fire.
While speaking he always seemed, as has been wittily said, to be surveying a "broad landscape of his own convictions.
Dean Marlay wittily observed, 'A lady may be vain, when she can turn a wolf-dog into a lap-dog.
Mrs. Thrale justly and wittily accounted for such conduct by saying, that Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
To give a notion of his talents in two words, he could have written Zadig as wittily as Voltaire; he could have thought out the Dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates as powerfully as Montesquieu.
This it was which made Brantome so wittily speak of that Pope as an "uncle in Our Lady.
This "Manon Lescaut of the seventeenth century," as she has been wittily called, deserves a word or two, not so much on her own account as on account of the light she casts on certain phases of the social life of her day.
In a private room of a well-known restaurant, in 1836, he wittily related to Finot, Blondet and Couture the source of Nucingen's fortune.
Let the chastisements of Juvenal be never so necessary for his new kind of satire, let him declaim as wittily and sharply as he pleases, yet still the nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.
Sheridan wittilyadvised that the motto of "The Sun" should be, not merely the beginning, but the whole of the passage: Solem quis dicere falsum Audeat?
Undaunted by this failure, which Sheridan wittily called nibbling at the French rind, Pitt sought to utilize the Russian force withdrawn from Holland for the projected blow at Brest.
On the philanthropist repeating this at a dinner party, one of his guests, de Lageard, wittily remarked: "I should like to know who was Chancellor of the Exchequer to Attila.
After he had retired, one of the Judges asked Lord Norbury what he thought of him, his Lordship wittily replied, "he might be a very clever man, but he was certain he was not a close shaver.
Susan complained to me of this, wittily scornful, as we left the Red Cross headquarters together on the evening of March eleventh, and started toward her hotel down the dusky colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli.
The example thus set by the city of London was followed by other corporations in such quick succession that for some weeks, as Lady Hervey wittily remarked, "it rained gold boxes.
Between these two statesmen there was no comparison, except such as Canning wittily drew:-- "Pitt is to Addington As London is to Paddington.
He introduced into Tragedy the cool and close observation of Comedy; in Emilia Galotti the passions are rather acutely and wittily characterized than eloquently expressed.
This invention of introducing spectators on the stage, who contribute to the entertainment, has been very wittily used by later English poets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wittily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
