most sapient
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At 75, William Allen White remains one of the country's most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, most sapient sirs, my very worthy and approved good masters: but that very consideration should have taught you to look back, and reconsider your translation of the capital word ὑψος.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
How am I wrong, most sapient and debonair of Galens?”
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
Lord This and Lady That are more thought of as potentially occupying stalls or boxes at a first performance than is the presence of the most sapient judges.”
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Truly laudable and excellent, most sapient masters, seems to me that which our most prudent and politic brother has now advanced, were it not for one single circumstance which unhappily spoils all.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
