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Examples
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Like one that was frightened quite out of his wits,
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Deciding to attack before they gathered their wits,
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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The physical universe is a challenge to human wits,
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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Let the waterless stone be sudden Diomed -- you will confuse my wits,
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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He piped; -- and brought me back my wandering wits,
The Piper Josephine Preston Peabody 1898
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Still year on year he sits, with his five unholy wits,
Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen Bliss Carman 1895
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Garrick, for instance, observed in his sprightly manner, with more vivacity than regard to just discrimination, as is usual with wits,
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Now, good God, that is most wisest and welde of wits,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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And as he uttered the word, the crew went out of their wits,
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And as he uttered the word, the crew went out of their wits,
More Bab Ballads 1873
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