1 You declare that you are gnashing your teeth and at the same time you try to be witty so as to amuse us.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: XI 2 You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: XI 3 He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III 4 Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be made elegantly witty.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X 5 "Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII 6 Petya was a big handsome boy of thirteen, merry, witty, and mischievous, with a voice that was already breaking.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I 7 "If there is a point we don't see it, or it is not at all witty," their expressions seemed to say.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VII 8 Bilibin puckered his skin in preparation for something witty.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VII 9 During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I 10 She was flirting her fan and laughing at the feeble jokes of a young gentleman who tried to be witty, when she suddenly stopped laughing and looked confused, for just opposite, she saw Laurie.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER NINE 11 "She's not a stricken deer anyway," said Ned, trying to be witty, and succeeding as well as very young gentlemen usually do.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER TWELVE 12 "To hear is to obey, but March is fairer far than May," said little Parker, making a frantic effort to be both witty and tender, and getting promptly quenched by Laurie, who said.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTY 13 He must love such a handsome, noble, witty, accomplished lady; and probably she loves him, or, if not his person, at least his purse.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 14 They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 15 "He abounded in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin Constant.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR