wit

• Yet he was wise in his way; devoid of sentiment or sympathy as a grind-stone, his wit was as sharp as his heart was cold. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
• Of all this the mind of Felix Graham had been full; and now, as he rose to take his own share of the work, his wit was at work rather in opposition to Lady Mason than on her behalf This Torrington was a little old man, and Graham had watched how his hands had trembled when Sir Richard first addressed him. —  Orley Farm
• His new book shows no falling off: his wit is as nimble as ever, his eye as quick to note incongruities, his satire as well directed and as brilliant." —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• You acknowledge, as everybody must do, that his wit is the heaviest and lowest: pray, is the specimen he has given us of history at all better Timotheus. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
• But since the wit is as bright as ever, though less hard, it seems unreasonable to impute as a defect what, but for very obvious reasons, would be admitted as an improvement Except Brougham, who still comes in for some severe language, no one of Peacock's old favourite abominations undergoes personal chastisement. —  Gryll Grange

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