1 You declare that you are gnashing your teeth and at the same time you try to be witty so as to amuse us.
2 You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value.
3 He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
4 Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be made elegantly witty.
5 "Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him.
6 Petya was a big handsome boy of thirteen, merry, witty, and mischievous, with a voice that was already breaking.
7 "If there is a point we don't see it, or it is not at all witty," their expressions seemed to say.
8 Bilibin puckered his skin in preparation for something witty.
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.
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.
11 "She's not a stricken deer anyway," said Ned, trying to be witty, and succeeding as well as very young gentlemen usually do.
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.
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.
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.
15 "He abounded in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin Constant.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR