smartnesses

And I got some smartnesses from some smart and kind and caring people.

Stupid Book Lists (grumble, mumble), Stop Taunting Me! « Looking for Roots 2010

William Buffy carries one of these smartnesses from the place where he dines down to the

Bleak House 2007

They think only of the sudden flashes, the happinesses, and, if such a word may be used once only, the smartnesses, -- like children who care for nothing in their cake but the frosting and the plums.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

Where the judges are drawn from men of experience in affairs, as is usually the case, they will estimate such boyish smartnesses at their true value.

The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

In the current talk of men there are new smartnesses of speech built upon the old maternal tongue.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

"Gurney is up to his smartnesses again," she replied.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

It also, by the way, showed off our pretty prospectus with the design by Crane at the top, our stylish-looking blood-red invitation cards, and the other little smartnesses on which we then prided ourselves.

The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

She could not bear to put in words what in her heart she knew to be the truth: that their success was due to Basil, the dreamer of dreams; that her little smartnesses and pretty trivialities could never have carried them to the place where they now stood together.

The Heather-Moon 1889

They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses -- the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges.

The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred.

The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) 551 BC-479 BC Confucius 1856