witling
Example Sentences
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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
The author was a learned witling, but in no respect a poet.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
"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
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
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
