clever remark
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2020
Whenever one made a rather clever remark, or smoothed to glossiness a particularly rumpled feather, he wagged his short tail vigorously from side to side in satisfaction.
From The Killer by Stewart Edward White
He said, at last: "These Boer dances are very low things;" and then, as soon as it had gone from him, he thought it was not a clever remark, and wished it back.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Olive Schreiner
The astute monarch's calculations were admirably exposed by a clever remark of the Prince of Ballybunion.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
He would say that the whole hat trade of London was disorganised by the news that a clever remark had been made by a young M. P. on the subject of the imports of Jamaica.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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