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  • Ben Franklin would excoriate them with savage wit,

    Think Progress » Why George Washington would disagree with the right wing about health care’s constitutionality. 2010

  • Therefore, I am almost relieved to discover that Yahoo engages in deplorable conduct with much more serious consequences than stealing resources from my ISP; to wit,

    Web/Tech 2010

  • Therefore, I am almost relieved to discover that Yahoo engages in deplorable conduct with much more serious consequences than stealing resources from my ISP; to wit,

    About This Site 2009

  • Sentiments are as differently mix'd as the Patches in their Work: To wit,

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • With this view he gave himself airs very early; ‘That his grandfather and uncles were his stewards: that no man ever had better: that daughters were but incumbrances and drawbacks upon a family:’ and this low and familiar expression was often in his mouth, and uttered always with the self-complaisance which an imagined happy thought can be supposed to give the speaker; to wit,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And did she not in our former conference point out the way of life, that she always preferred to the married life — to wit,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,

    Love’s Labour ’s Lost 2004

  • Heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ So many times among 'The Band' to wit,

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

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