keen-witted

Even keen-witted 93-year-old Joshua Green, from whose eponymous building the portrait had been taken, had no recollection of its provenance.

Of old the Hellenic race was marked off from the barbarian as more keen-witted and more free from nonsense.

Readers will applaud the keen-witted protagonist as she navigates the city-state’s “intrigues and rivalries,” determined to chart her own course.

In spite of the brown jersey and the soiled serge trousers, the keen-witted Hun had come to the correct conclusion, that the tall, bronzed man was not a genuine smack hand.

Richard, however, was too keen-witted to be overcome in a war of words; he assembled his court, and solemnly repeating what Foulques had said, added, “My pride I give to the Templars, my avarice to the Cistercians, and my lust to the prelates in general.”