 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 sider
...sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 sider
...purify it and direct it to right ends. In one of his sermons he gives an exhaustive definition of wit— an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirldsh reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 232 sider
...lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quickish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 sider
...Sometimes," Barrow goes on to say, " it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurks under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 sider
...their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 sider
...sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 sider
...sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 sider
...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under a similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | Longman (Firm), Robert McWilliam - 1905 - 628 sider
...it and direct it to right ends. In one of his sermons he gives an exhaustive definition of wit — an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 sider
...their sense or the affinity of their sound ; sometime? it is wrapped in a dress of humorous eipresion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly qnesiiot. in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in i shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting r... | |
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... in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense... 
