witling
Example Sentences
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Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
"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
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
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
