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Sentences ending with wits

Tell that to your Alexandrian wits! [10]
Hast lost thy wits? [5]
Be kind, and use your wits. [2]
Then came Miss Trevor's reply, and it seemed to shake the very foundations of my wits. [9]
But there were things; in my young life very apt to sharpen my wits. [10]
Besides, affection sharpens the wits. [11]
Behold, Allah hath taken her wits! [11]
That is to say, am I to believe that you have lost your wits? [5]
And when I saw myself in the mirror I was frightened out of my wits. [5]
Dudley was frightened out of his wits. [6]

Short sentences using wits

Keep your wits. [13]

More example sentences with the word wits in them

No, lad, either you fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. [2]
I confess I wonder what these wits find in your company. [9]
I exhausted my wits, and very nearly my patience also, in efforts to convince both that the evils they charged on each other were inherent in the case, and could not be cured by giving either party a victory over the other. [7]
I set my wits to work. [11]
It took my wits clear away, for an instant. [5]
And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
But keep your wits about you. [10]
Presently he said, with something of hope in his voice-- "Perchance he is but mad upon this one strain, and hath his wits unmarred as toucheth other matter. [5]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
From the time when he set out for France in his fifteenth year, with the exception of a short sojourn in Willoughby seven or eight years after, he lived by his wits and by the strong hand. [4]
But Macnamara's wits were not wool-gathering, and when Slatin said to him, "If I escape, I will try to arrange yours," Macnamara replied, with a respectful but placid stolidity: "Right, sir. [11]
Ah, yes, this was plainly the right way out of the difficulty; therefore she set her wits to work at once to contrive that test. [5]
His head was very bloody and his wits were gone. [5]
Afterward, when I tried to recall what he said, I laughed at his surprising ignorance of the question at issue, and wondered where my wits could have gone that I allowed myself to be dazzled and turned aside at every corner. [9]
I want you to understand fully that I am not one of those poor nervous creatures who are frightened out of their wits when any question is started that implies the disturbance of their old beliefs. [6]
His heart began to throb; the artist's love of his art had awaked within him; he had collected his wits, and explained to the matron that to paint in the darkness was impossible. [10]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
The magician began to pull his wits together, and when he presently smiled an easy, nonchalant smile, it spread a mighty relief around; for it indicated that his mood was not destructive. [5]
He was treated to much liberal staring before the oily salesman arranged his wits to grapple with the third factor. [9]
We warned Ollendorff to keep his wits about him and handle himself carefully, but it was useless; the moment the bow touched the bank, he made a spring and the canoe whirled upside down in ten-foot water. [5]
He delighted in those anatomical conundrums to answer which keeps the student's eyes open and his wits awake. [6]
In faith, that theme taxed our wits at the Bear,--how to weave Miss Dolly's charms into a verse on a buttered muffin. [9]
And men lost their wits and looked on at the crime, flinging the delight of the gods into the water and the kiln. [10]
He rapped on the window with his stick, thereby frightening Cynthia half out of her wits as she sat musing sorrowfully by the fire. [9]
Mr. Bernard, in the mean time, had been getting, first his senses, and then some few of his scattered wits, a little together. [6]
This then was the Chapter Coffee-house, which, a century ago, was the resort of all the booksellers and publishers; and where the literary hacks, the critics, and even the wits, used to go in search of ideas or employment. [14]
The crime of the Alexandrian wits could not be left unpunished. [10]
Mr. Wing's to take me to New York on his yacht, and you've got to have your wits about you when you talk to the old man. [9]
It is not so exalted a claim to make for them, but it may be added that they were often the wits and humorists of their localities. [6]
Speakers, leaders in science, clergymen better than famous, and famous too, poets by the half-dozen, singers with voices like angels, financiers, wits, three of the best laughers in the Commonwealth, engineers, agriculturists,--all forms of talent and knowledge he pretended were represented in that meeting. [6]
And, as I reached the door, the North Wind spied me, grinned, rubbed his stomach, made a false dash at me that frightened me out of my wits, and finally went through the pantomime of scalping me. [9]
I was nearly out of my wits by this time. [5]
She declared in one of her altercations with her lord and master that she would lose her wits were they to remain another day, a threat that did not seem to move Grafton greatly. [9]
But the lady of the manor seated herself at the speaker's table, singling out Scotch wits in the audience--for whom she was more than a match--while the sculptor and I looked on and grinned and resisted her blandishments to make speeches. [9]
But a pair of eyes met the painter's gaze, which at once restored him to self-possession, and reminded him that he must collect his wits and presence of mind. [10]
With lively sensations of curiosity and excitement, tempered by a certain anxiety as to my ability to match wits with the Spider, I made my way to his "lair" over Monahan's saloon, situated in a district that was anything but respectable. [9]
The mere mention of a witch was almost enough to frighten us out of our wits. [5]
The colony was now at its wits end, for there was nothing to eat except the wild products of the country. [4]
However, I was not to teach you any lesson, for your wits are at least a match for ours. [10]
An I had not thought of that, I must have had to stand for weeks, till my poor lad's wits are cured. [5]
I woke at noon out of such a solid and stupefying sleep that at first my wits were all astray, and I did not know where I was nor what had been happening. [5]
I came to my wits with an immoderate feeling of faintness and sickness, with no more remembrance of things past than has a man bereft of reason. [9]
But I held my wits together. [11]
Dissipated noblemen of middle age like March and Sandwich, wits and beaus and fine gentlemen like Selwyn and Chesterfield and Walpole, were familiarly called by their first names by youngsters like Fox and Carlisle and Comyn. [9]
Then, when you've made it, you'll get what you've never had yet--the pleasure of spending money dug out of your own wits. [11]
Everything in the luckless household was out of gear, and its noble guest, the Duke von Gulich, would feel the consequences, for the servants had lost their wits too. [10]
Some of the low-voiced remarks were to this effect-- "This is no mad king--he hath his wits sound. [5]
There, at a long table, surrounded by powdered lackeys, sat a bevy of wits, mostly in blue and silver, with point ruffles, to match Mr. Fox's costume. [9]
I myself--wait a little wait: in spite of her long hair and her short wits a woman often has a happy idea. [10]
He then asked, laughingly, if the wits of Alexandria were going to treat him to another offering like the one on his arrival. [10]
A woman's hair is long and her wits short, says the saw. [10]
The burgomaster's speech is driving me out of my wits. [10]
Still under the influence of an acute anxiety, he was finding it difficult to gather his wits, to present his case. [9]
Presently he said, in a mild voice-- "Thy wits seem touched, poor stranger; doubtless thou hast suffered privations and rude buffetings at the world's hands; thy looks and dress betoken it. [5]
I confess that I think better of them than of many who hold the same notions, and keep their wits and appear to enjoy life very well, outside of the asylums. [6]
At each of his son's new projects he raised his eyes to the speaker's face, as if to see whether the young man had not lost his wits, while his mouth, only half hidden by his grey beard, smiled approvingly. [10]
I observed that his face went blank from time to time at some quip of hers: even a dull woman may be sharp under such circumstances, and Miss Trevor had wits to spare. [9]
She had all her wits about her, and they could not catch her anywhere. [5]
And to-day, in her blue veil and blue serge gown, she had boarded the 'Folly' with her wits about her. [9]
Joan was doing her best to rally the men, but their wits were gone, their hearts were dominated for the moment by the old-time dread of the English. [5]
Dada, however, neither heard nor heeded; frightened out of her wits she went on with the crowd, taking him with her. [10]
Since that time he had lived by his wits--and pleasing, dangerous wits they were--at Montreal and elsewhere. [11]
As soon as he could recover his wits he cried out-- "Have thy wish, poor soul! [5]
He seemed to have got his wits together by this time, and to have a vague consciousness that he might have been saying more than he meant for anybody's ears.--I have been talking a little wild, Sir, eh? [6]
Her wits must have been a good deal confused by the strange sights of the evening. [6]
Her own wits had sharpened themselves in keeping watch by day and night, and her face had forgotten its age in the excitement which gave life to its features. [6]
But Mr. Cooke had his wits about him still, and at this critical juncture he gave McCann a thump on the back which nearly carried him off his feet. [9]
Monsieur de St. Gre knocked at the door and startled me out of my wits. [9]
Whether this were going to the Convent or no the drunken churl should tell, and a stream of cold November-water ere long brought him to his wits. [10]
For she had given me my chance, and my wits had been found wanting. [9]
I was so frightened that my wits seemed to leave me. [5]
I have clean forgot the string of adjectives she used,--but she would have had me know he was as handsome as Apollo, and so dashing and diverting as to put Courtenay and all our wits to shame. [9]
He saw well enough that Helen Darley would certainly kill herself or lose her wits, if he could not lighten her labors and lift off a large part of her weight of cares. [6]
When he had done speaking against "the mad wits that would not see," Hope laid her cool fingers on his arm and said, with a demure humour: "All the world's mad but thee and me, David--and thee's a bit mad! [11]
Towards noon she dismissed the Magian and allowed herself a short interval of rest and sleep; but as soon as she woke she collected her wits, and set to work again with fresh zeal and diligence. [10]
Dyspeptic on a diet of oatmeal porridge; kept wide awake by crowing cocks; drummed out of his wits by long-continued piano-pounding; sharp of speech, I fear, to his high-strung wife, who gave him back as good as she got! [6]
What was done could not be undone; and now he must keep his wits about him so as to remain, in the eyes of others at least, what he had always been, low as he had fallen in his own. [10]
Before Stephen could collect his wits, a fierce battle was raging about him. [9]
The governor had chanced to hear a word or two and, thinking it was some game of which they spoke, said: "Piquet or a game of wits, gentlemen? [11]
Wilson knew Roxy by sight, and when the duel of wits begun to play out, he stepped outside to gather in a record or two. [5]
Hamilton's scalp hanging by a lock, egad--and they frightened out of their five wits because it was growing dark. [9]
Her wits have been kept bright by constant use, and as she is free of speech it requires some courage to face her. [6]
You have heart, and your wits have gone wool-gathering. [11]
But our rakes and wits, and even our solid men, like my grandfather, received him with open arms. [9]
That is really an encounter of wits, for you know that the best part of a conversation is the things not said. [4]
I hope I am not stupid enough ever to lose my wits. [6]
The right of a man who thinks a damned sight more of your reputation than you do yourself, and of your fortune than you would ever have wits to do. [11]
He has no "Constitution" to go by, nothing but his wits and energy to set against the world that day, and every day the struggle and the anxiety are the same. [4]

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