witling
Example Sentences
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Alas, poor witling, and can't you see That for mighty thoughts and heroic aims, the words themselves must appropriate be?
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
"Away with scythe and sickle," shouted the witling; "it's many a day since the fields of Wish-Ton-Wish have been trodden down by horsemen in buff jerkins, or ambushed by creeping Wampanoags."
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
When active Pickle Smithfield stage ascends, 200 The three days' wonder of his laughing friends, Each, or as judgment or as fancy guides, The lively witling praises or derides.
From Poetical Works by Charles Churchill
If we reckon from the amœba, the witling seems scarcely distinguishable from the wit; but if we reckon from the average of humanity, they start asunder like the poles.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
