witling
Example Sentences
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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
Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
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
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
