 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or in smartly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it ia couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pages
...wrapped in a dress of humourous expression: sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometime) it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, sire of augmenting tnem grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition; as motion is accelerated... | |
 | George Coles - 1836 - 406 pages
...dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it lodgeth in a sly question — in a smart answer — in a quirkish reason — in a shrewd imitation — in a cunningly diverting, or smartly retorting objection ; sometimes it is couched in... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838 - 448 pages
...Ihcir sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly, diveningly, or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
 | 1838 - 448 pages
...question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation; in cunningly, diveningly, or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it...in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a liuty hyperpole, in a startling metaphor, in a plaiuHle reconciling of contradictions, or in acute... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting1, or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 434 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying; sometimes it lurked under an odd similitude, or was lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection. Sometimes it was couched in a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression: sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, sire of augmenting tnem grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition; aa motion is accelerated... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...sound; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an cdd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question;...a smart answer; in a quirkish reason; in a shrewd imitation; in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorticç an objection; sometimes it is couched in a... | |
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... seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their... 
