He protested to me that he could not find but they had as good witts as the English; but generally speaking he found they had better memories.
He is my old acquaintance, and I desired him to tell me freely if the Irish Boyes had as good witte as the English; because some of our severe witts have ridiculed the Irish understanding.
The Juice of Spanish squeez'd Grapes is It That makes a dull Braine so full of witt; The Lemonades cleere sparkling wine The grosser witts too, doth much refine.
No, I doe feare to loose my tyme, my businesse, And my witts too, jolting them all away To waite on you in prouder Coaches.
I am afraid the witts are broke; there be men will make affidavit that [they] have not heard a good jest since Tarleton[255] dyed.
I, Sir; but they are such phantasticall ayres as it putts a Poet out of his witts to rhime to them; but let mee heare.
Dost thinke her witts so limber to believe I could compell it from thee.
I would have it printed (for it is learnedly[356] donne) to show where and how great witts may erre and be decieved.
If I would look for witts I would goe to Newgate, there be the witts[LXXXI.
I have heard his grandson say, that the Spelmans' witts open late.
Nearly all the great metropolitan plutocratic families were either allied or connected with one another, and the De Witts and the Gildermans were doubly connected by marriage in the generation of Gilderman's father.
The De Witts were going down to Brookfield for a last look at the house before its completion.
X A VOICE FROM THE DEAD THE De Wittswere cousins of the Gildermans.
Well, I went down to Brookfield with the De Witts to see their new house.
The De Witts had been building a country-house some little distance out of the city and not far from the water.
He was acquainted with all the witts of his time in England.
In shorte, his acquaintance were all the witts then about the towne; e.
He would say that 'there might be good witts of all complexions; but good-natured, impossible.
Witts flock in sholes, and clubb to re-erect In spight of Ignorance the Architect Of Occidentall Poesye; and turne Godds, to recall witts ashes from their urne.
But none but Wittscan do't, how then can I Come in amongst them, that cou'd ne're come nigh?
For these Co-heirs had equall power to teach All that all Witts both can and cannot reach.
How many passable discoursing dining witts stand yet in good credit upon the bare stock of two or three of these single Scenes.
In the Nieuwe Kerk at The Hague the tomb of the De Wittsmay be seen and honoured.
It was for supposed leaning to the French that the De Wittshad been massacred.
They will drag thee forth, as they dragged the De Witts from the prison.
The second count was that the De Witts had always done their best to keep at peace with France.
Before another gate could be reached the mob, streaming from the Buytenhof, had overtaken the carriage, and the De Witts were at its mercy.
He galloped proudly, for the burghers of The Hague had made of the corpses of the De Witts a stepping stone to power for William of Orange.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, with the variants peevish for flowing in l.
Herrick, but which, as not improving the poem, have been omitted in our text in accordance with the precedent set by the editor of Witts Recreations.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1645, and contained also in Ashmole MS.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, under the title, On Betty.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, with the variants: "Gather your Rosebuds" in l.
Printed inWitts Recreations, 1650, under the title: Of this Book.
Both printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, the second under the title of Love and Liberty.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, under the title, On a painted madame.
Printed inWitts Recreations, 1650, under the title: Abroad with the Maids.
Grosart have slightly misrepresented the relation of Hesperides to the anthology known as Witts Recreations: Mr. Hazlitt by mistakes as to their respective contents; Dr.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, where it is entitled To Julia.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, as How the violets came blue.
Hereditary adversary of the Van Witts and their party, Heinsius had pursued the policy of William III.
For I was the firste that allurde thee to the same, Thie witts beinge yonge likewaye I did frame, Thou beinge well inclined through mee didst consente To conceale the thinge that made us all repente.
I was the houseboy for the Witts durin' the war and 'bout time it was over I enlisted at Alexandria as a soldier and they sent me to Mansfield.
The Witts had a good set of niggers and didn't have to whip much.
The De Witts embraced each other tenderly at the head of the stairs which led out of the castle, and bade each other their last adieus.
On the same day of the double murder of the De Witts the Assembly of the States of Holland despatched a courier to the young Prince of Orange, then encamped with his army at Alpen on the banks of the Rhine, between Leyden and Woerden.
He refolded the despatch, and sitting down where the cover was laid for him, remarked: "I learn that both De Witts were yesterday massacred at The Hague by the populace.
On receiving it Tilly is said to have exclaimed, "I will obey, but the De Witts are dead men.
But the fact that they were reduced to these dire straits roused the popular resentment against the De Wittsand the system of government which had for more than two decades been in possession of power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
