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Sentences ending with witty

I have spelt it that way to be witty. [5]
Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be made elegantly witty. [2]

More example sentences with the word witty in them

Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
In fact, the witty brokers who were admitted to its mysteries called it the bucket-shop. [4]
I recollect it was said by a witty lady of a handsome clergyman well remembered among us, that he had dressy eyes. [6]
Barbara drew herself up, and the air of unapproachable dignity which she assumed well suited the aristocratic gentleman at her side, whom every one knew as the most brilliant, witty, and extravagant noble at the Emperor's court. [10]
Mrs. Larrabbee's temptation to be witty at the expense of those for whom she had no liking had led Hodder to discount the sketch. [9]
He drank to their better acquaintance with few compunctions; a matter not scandalous, for there is nothing like a witty woman to turn a man's head, and there was not so much at stake after all. [11]
Those thoughtful eyes, the light on the lofty brow, the delicate lips, which seemed about parting to utter some wise or witty word--he had not painted them, never, never could he have accomplished such a masterpiece. [10]
It was said that Rostopchin had expelled all Frenchmen and even all foreigners from Moscow, and that there had been some spies and agents of Napoleon among them; but this was told chiefly to introduce Rostopchin's witty remark on that occasion. [2]
He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. [2]
Then the atmosphere round her became less trying; yet her temper remained changeable, and had it not been that she was good-looking and witty, her position might have been insecure. [11]
Captain Smith was perhaps too serious a knight to see the humor of these encounters, but he does not lack humor in describing them, and he adopted easily the witty courtesies of the code he was illustrating. [4]
If the effect of wit is produced by the sudden recognition of a remote resemblance, there was nothing witty in the naming of this station. [4]
The solemn scepticism of science has replaced the sneering doubts of witty philosophers. [3]
That--(here insert entertainer's name) is clever, witty, wise, brilliant,--and the rest. [6]
There was too much self-consciousness all round, and nobody was witty and brilliant. [4]
The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. [5]
Dissipated as Boyne's look was, he had a natural handsomeness which, with good care of himself personally, well-appointed clothes, a cheerful manner, and witty talk, made him palatable to careless-living Dublin. [11]
One would not like to call her a delightfully wicked old woman, like the Baroness Bernstein; but she had her own witty and satirical way of regarding the world. [4]
The humorous story is strictly a work of art--high and delicate art --and only an artist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and the witty story; anybody can do it. [5]
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. [5]
He swore in his heart that the woman never lived who was so witty, so wise, so beautiful, and so good. [8]
But as the Higher Powers have not conferred on men the gift of seeing themselves in the true light, John very possibly conceives himself to be youthful, witty, and fascinating, and talks from the point of view of this ideal. [6]
And when first Helene was presented formally she made such a witty retort to the Queen's sally that her Majesty insisted upon her coming to court. [9]
I want to hear you say something wise, something witty, something soul-stirring. [10]
Landulph suggested that he produce a witness and said it in a way which he thought was very witty, very sarcastic. [5]
He had the gift of effective speech to a rare degree, and when he liked he could be insinuating and witty, but he had not genuine humour or good feeling, and the House knew it. [11]
The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. [5]
But a sharp criticism with a drop of witty venom in it stings a young author almost to death, and makes an old one uncomfortable to no purpose. [6]
Now she found--one could see it by watching the speakers--a witty answer to many of Antony's remarks. [10]
During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head. [2]
He had never been so adroit, so brilliant, so witty, so insinuating; and he left her with the feeling that if he had his way concerning De la Foret--a mere stubborn whim, with no fair reason behind it--his influence would be again securely set. [11]
It could not be doubted that a smile and a confidential or a witty remark from Mrs. Henderson brightened many an evening. [4]
In its place are the reflections both wise and witty upon life, upon the characters of the men that are met, upon the nature of the sights that are seen. [4]
But their cheery and witty guest began to take more wine than was good for him or comfortable for others; his bills at the clubs remained unpaid, his landlord harried him, his tailors pursued him; and then he borrowed cheerfully and well. [11]
She was fair and he loved her well, and he had brought home witty sayings to repeat to her from the table of the emperor. [10]
He is often amusing, sometimes really witty, occasionally, without meaning it, instructive; but his talk is to profitable conversation what the stone is to the pulp of the peach, what the cob is to the kernels on an ear of Indian corn. [6]
His father was a man of decided character, social, vivacious, witty, a lover of books, and himself not unknown as a writer, being the author of one or more of the well remembered "Jack Downing" letters. [6]

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