Word: witness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose like an intellect trained at Yale." That has always been our opinion, and we are glad to find it thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin, and the Review is disposed to resent...
...speakers indulged in what would have been inappropriate at any time or in any place. There was also a tendency to levity, a tendency which should be checked, both because it seems to be growing in the Union, and because in a speech on a serious subject, wit and humor should not be the main elements. The audience, however, was good-natured, and readily over-looked all shortcomings. Colonel Higginson's presence and remarks showed the interest he takes in the Union. The experiment of allowing all who so wished, both ladies and gentlemen, to come to hear the debate...
With subtle stroke of wit to strip the dress...
Bits of worldly wisdom, flashes of wit, and shrewd estimates of human nature, go to make up the charming volume - too small, alas! - which bears the name of "Mother Goose's Melodies." And yet, with all her sense and all her wit, she had a fine ear for rhythm, and in "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" has given us the only pure Saturnian line in the language...
...smother you with wit...