witling
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He had no superstitions, but the unaccountable flight of the witling, and the eerie tales offered in explanation and the mystic night of storm in that wild forest waste unstrung him.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
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
A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perish'd in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
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