| 单词 | twit |
| 例句 | “You use logarithms, you twit! How could you forget that?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “How do you like your adventure now, you arrogant little twit?” a lechuza with Inés’s voice asked Juanita as she caressed her face with the bristly feathers of her left wing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Sticky, who still felt sensitive about his performance in the maze, said, “I wouldn’t say I did brilliantly. I didn’t figure out the solution or find a shortcut, I just stumbled around like a twit.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Get her, you twit,” Marcus roars at his brother, who has just emerged from the tunnel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She thought about how he did not give a twit about the future, how he thought about the here and now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Go twit out the window and find Peter Pan, Tinkerbell,” Mary Anne snapped. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The eyeliner I put on in the morning—vain twit that I am—has long since streaked down onto my cheeks, and I could wring my braid out if I wanted to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He acted like such a twit, I’m sure he made Madam Schofield proud. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The satire of a privileged twit is dry and delicious. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Food writing is hard — it’s easy to sound like a twit, skipping through the zucchini blossoms in strappy sandals — and several writers here make the usual mistakes and take pratfalls. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z We are a wary family, familiar but suspicious, and even the rich twits in their top hats, jewelry and furs look a little shabby. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The art world may be full of poseurs, pretentious twits, rapacious entrepreneurs and the forces of corporate homogenization, but in key ways, it is still a different social and economic world than the movie business. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z There were very public disagreements over who should design it, and an outcry over an inscription that the writer Maya Angelou complained made King look like an "arrogant twit". Martin Luther King memorial: 'Drum major' quote to be removed at $1m cost 2012-12-13T16:53:05Z Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, in contrast, “appears to be a collection of drunken, self-celebrating, upper-class twits who get it wrong nearly every time.” 50 notable works of nonfiction “No way I think you can refer to yourself in the third person without coming across as a twit.” Story time: Barney Frank brings his wit and Washington wisdom to Harvard He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z But then, haven’t you always wanted to see George R. R. Martin twitted for not having completed his book series? Review: Hello, Hodor! A ‘Game of Thrones’ Musical Spoof 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z When they’re in their cups, these upper-class twits devoted to “debauchery raised to an art form — an almost spiritual release,” in the words of one, also carry snobbery and class hatred to savage extremes. Review: In ‘The Riot Club,’ an Elite British Dining Club Excels in Debauchery 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It took even less time for the icy blonde with whom he shared zero onscreen chemistry to be kicked off her pedestal and revealed as a phony liberal hipster twit. Jonathan Bernstein's aerial view of American TV 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z Download it , or from the link in the twit below. Download this: "instrumental summer mixtape and b sides" by Seattle's Craft Spells 2011-07-12T16:36:12Z And then there was me, easily the most clueless twit of the lot. Bagging a bargain? My hellish visit to a luggage auction 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z When I read Madame Bovary as an unforgiving adolescent, I thought Flaubert's heroine was a bit of a posturing twit and deserved all she got – except ever-loyal Charles. Aiuthor, author: Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z Early in Monday’s episode, we see a gilded twit kvetching into her phone about someone’s shabby yacht, before the Penguin steals her brooch. 'Gotham' Recap: The Cheap Thrill of Smacking a Rich Kid 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Not long after she empowered a religious sect, the Sparrows, in order to persecute Margaery, she herself was locked up for once seducing her twit of a cousin, Lancel. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6: Here’s Where We Left Off 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Standing wisely resists the impulse to impersonate a snobbish, social-climbing twit dropping names and looking down his nose. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z One man describes the state as “full of living twits and unsettled spirits,” and characters in extremis do encounter ghosts. Lauren Groff Reveals the Stormy Side of the Sunshine State 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The designated twits, in this case, being Essex couple Mike and Daniella, whose spending on food and beauty products has got out of control. SuperScrimpers: Spring Clean; Motor Morphers – TV review 2013-05-07T06:00:08Z And even though it was only 13 minutes long, 1985's Rupert and the Frog Song was enough to single-handedly transform Paul McCartney from an incomparable musical genius to a mulleted thumbs-aloft twit. Which newspaper comic strip would you like to see made as a film? 2010-06-01T16:16:00Z This does not, however, excuse the way that most of this staging’s Turkish characters are played as twits. Critic’s Notebook: Ballet Clings to Racial, Ethnic and National Stereotypes 2012-09-05T15:11:19Z But twitting a playwright for not being Shakespeare is blatantly unfair, so it’s best to leave the rest unquoted. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes he sounds like a New Age twit. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Heel of Fortune: Yet another reality show in which a bunch of rich twits compete to see who is the most contemptible. Style Invitational Week 1316: Lies, damn lies, with statistics — a fake-trivia contest 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Illustration for the Guardian by Neal Fox Contrary to popular belief, which has me, in the minds of most people, as a petulant, pompous twit, I am actually very quiet in restaurants. Digested read: Unbelievable! by Michael Winner 2010-12-06T21:00:00Z But there it is, beaming like a gate-crashing twit with a whoopee cushion. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z “Maybe generous to a fault,” she said, “to twits who didn’t deserve it, poor man.” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The movie is labored, overly familiar and about 10 miles away from deep -- an elemental, sometimes excremental comedy about petty twits behaving badly. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z Roger’s venal wife, Arabella, spews a litany of complaints that evoke the Private Eye column “Polly Filler,” in which a fatuous twit moans about her useless husband and her lazy au pairs. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z James' portrayal is undeniably delicate and compassionate, defying the common '90s portraiture of Anderson making her out to be a libidinous twit. "Pam & Tommy" is the greatest, hugest love story ever told about an unauthorized celebrity sex tape 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Maybe, too, you and your family were such twits to her when your son first brought her home that she learned to withdraw as a coping strategy when you're around. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to tell checked-out daughter-in-law to put down her phone 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z And the more attention we proffer these twits, the more they act out for our dubious benefit. Shkreli, Kanye and Trump: a most heinous trinity not worthy of our hatred 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z "I honestly don't recall, and neither will Aegon," she flatly, frosty replies in a tone that leaves the obvious unsaid: "Two-year-olds have the long-term memory of raw hamburger, you twit." "House of the Dragons" introduces the Lannisters before they had game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Doing so, Angelou said, made King sound like an “arrogant twit.” Maya Angelou, the nation’s wise woman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Stewart called it a case of "send a twit a tweet." CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot 2010-10-01T23:57:00Z He is just as happy to send up the self-righteous anti-capitalists of the left as the clueless twits of the right. Blackmail, Murder and Other Bad Behavior Abounds in Robert Galbraith’s ‘Lethal White’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The central gag here is that all eight members of the D’Ysquith clan whom he targets — men and women, twits and bullies — are portrayed, nimbly, by Tony winner Jefferson Mays. On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z I’m not going to tell you, because then you will accuse me of being an insufferable twit. Weingarten: Can’t get no SATisfaction So if he turned out to be a twit, I worried, it would be disproportionately upsetting. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z Kostabi made a fortune twitting that world until he went too far, and it slapped him down, making him a near-pariah. 'Con Artist': Entertaining portrait of an art-world satirist and near-pariah 2011-03-24T22:23:15Z There’s a shambolic “upper-class twit” of a British prime minister who hides his essential hollowness by spouting “random Latin phrases.” Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Stop trying to make him into a comedy turn, a Question of Sport twit, a national treasure. Rewind radio: 6-Love-6 – review 2013-06-29T23:05:58Z Happily, most of these twits know how to ski, so there are stunning scenes on the mountain as, one by one, they fall off cliffs, plunge into ravines and tumble into snowbanks. Bodies of Evidence 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z This is partly due to Felix Hayes's riotously funny performance as "Jimmy" Cricket, an upper-class, kindhearted twit in cricket whites who brilliantly replaces the talking cricket in the original. The Adventures of Pinocchio ? review 2011-01-05T22:45:00Z But "Nightcrawler," with its winning combination of darkness and wit, is a rare case where its reporters and anchors are neither truth-seeking heroes nor air-headed twits. 'Nightcrawler' shows how the news worm has turned 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z At home, at work, they're either evil sexist pigs and homophobes, or dull brainless snoring twits. Scott & Bailey; Coast; Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home – TV review 2013-04-04T06:00:00Z But I'm good at evading those little twits. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z On social media, Disney+ viewers took swipes at his 28-year-old self, calling him “the upper class twit of the year,” among other insults. Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to believe that such sounds could have issued from such twits. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Julian Sands is one of those blond, fair-skinned, blue-eyed English blokes who plays a twit as well or better than the next classically trained British actor. Actor Julian Sands identified as one of two missing hikers in San Gabriel Mountains 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z But Musk has only proved he is a chief twit. Advice | Elon Musk just showed us how not to fire people 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z At a rally last month in Youngstown, with Vance sitting in the front row, Trump twitted the candidate for his devotion. National Democrats are ignoring Ohio's Senate race. Are they blowing an opportunity? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, on Wednesday blamed the explosive Supreme Court leak on “one little woke left-wing twit,” arguing that the perpetrator should be disbarred or possibly jailed. Sen. Ted Cruz blames Supreme Court leak on ‘one little woke left-wing twit’ 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Note that the presence of a twit like Blackburn in the Senate is inarguable proof of the concept. Racist babies: Republicans reduced to white wailing at first Black woman nominated to Supreme Court 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s that she’s acting like a selfish twit and the show wants us to sit back and shout “Yasss, queen!” as she blows up her life. 'And Just Like That' was a train wreck. Here's what made it unmissable anyway 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Johnson thinks Macron is bit of a twit, and Macron thinks Johnson can be amusing but is a big, fat fibber. Opinion | Ooh La La! Le Messy Divorce! 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Language includes “twerps,” “butt,” “loser,” “doofus,” “wimp,” “twit” and “shut your trap.” What to watch with your kids: ‘Halloween Kills,’ ‘Justin Bieber: Our World’ and more 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Judge Andrew Menary called Gardner, who is believed to be in Spain, a "twit" for not attending his sentencing hearing at Liverpool Court Court. Shamal George: Man jailed for attacking ex-Liverpool player 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “A single-minded twit,” was how Pepperell labelled the world No. 17, a remark he later called “unnecessary.” Ashun Wu opens with eagle two, leads by one while Bryson DeChambeau is lurking - Golf Digest 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In August, Pepperell called the American a “twit” while criticizing his slow play at The Northern Trust tournament on the PGA Tour. Pepperell regains form, leads after 2 rounds in Dubai 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said. Monty Python comedy star Terry Jones dies at 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “These are the self-important twits who are running our society today!” a commenter wrote in response to a 2012 article about a contentious Co-op meeting. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z "I went to talk with him, I was such a young twit," Aniston said. Jennifer Aniston on why she turned down a spot on 'Saturday Night Live' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But perhaps no critic was as harsh as Eddie Pepperell, who went as far as calling DeChambeau a "single minded twit" in a reply to the video that was posted to Twitter. Eddie Pepperell can’t stop, won’t stop roasting Bryson DeChambeau for slow play - Golf Digest 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “Slow players do this to their playing partners, making the game less enjoyable. Problem is, the unaffected single-minded twit in this instance doesn’t care much for others.” Pepperell apologizes for calling DeChambeau a 'twit' 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “Problem is the unaffected single-minded twit in this instance doesn’t care much for others.” Bryson DeChambeau Wastes No Time Responding to Slow Play Critics 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Slow players do this to their playing partners making the game less enjoyable. Problem is, the unaffected single-minded twit in this instance, doesn’t care much for others.” 'Complete and utter you-know-what', DeChambeau hits back at slow... 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z He referred to DeChambeau as “the unaffected single minded twit” who doesn’t care much for others. DeChambeau defends social media criticism of slow play 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Slow players do this to their playing partners making the game less enjoyable. Problem is, the unaffected single minded twit in this instance, doesn’t care much for others.” Critics blast DeChambeau for slow play 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z His pompous broadcaster character remains a twit throughout each new installment, but Partridge’s career is a bit different each time, depending on whether his brand of windbaggery is in fashion in the real world. The pros and cons of endless TV revivals 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Of course, technically he might be more twit than boor. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z He doesn't seem to view his dad as a miserable twit to be manipulated for personal gain, which would be a sleazy but at least understandable attitude. Donald Trump Jr.: Perfect epitome of the Trump fan base 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr Moore called the congresswoman a "twit" and suggested global warming might be beneficial as carbon dioxide is a "building block of life". Greenpeace rebukes Trump for climate tweet 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Patrick Moore, the co-founder of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, ripped into Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend as a “pompous little twit,” saying the Green New Deal plan she’s advocating is “completely crazy.” Gillibrand claims ‘there’s nothing socialist’ about the Green New Deal 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z To the contrary, in the ridicule of these two rich twits, one hears an echo of school kids mocking a Native-American elder chanting a prayer song on the National Mall. Ridicule, the death of a culture 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z And I’m here to save you from the preposterous ideas that the insufferable Christmas Present and that myopic twit Christmas Past are trying to peddle. Perspective | How I finally killed Christmas 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z "I feel a bit weird singing Priceless because it's meant to be quite empowering for women - but at the same time, I feel a bit of a twit going, 'I'm priceless!'" says the singer. Sheridan Smith opens her heart 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z I tweeted about this; New England twit nits expressed their displeasure even more vocally and profanely. Perspective | A tangle with Boston fans confirms Twitter as a symptom of our toxic, societal demise 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Laurie, as Alcott has been telling us between the lines from the beginning, is a twit. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The European eagle owl is the largest owl in the world and Ms Dixon said they "don't twit twoo" but instead "screech like an eagle or crow". Giant owl missing after hosepipe fright 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Geez, these guys can't even keep their messaging straight - declining to speak on the record yet tapping and twitting on Twitter like there's no tomorrow. Inside One of America’s Ugliest Political Feuds: Cuomo vs. de Blasio 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z There are many astute commentators who have done their homework in addition to what is reported, to prove Trump is a lying conniving twit. Trump Tries to Shift Blame to Obama for Not Countering Russian Meddling 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z A third Conservative lawmaker, Paul Masterton, lamented, “Just because somebody stops using Twitter, it does not mean that they cease to be a twit.” Trump’s Tweets Manage a Rare Feat: Uniting Britain, in Outrage 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Ronaldo twitted a photo of himself holding a Real Madrid jersey with the message “To my No. 1 fan, Santiago.” Ronaldo sends message to family of boy killed in earthquake 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a brainwashing that would put Winston Smith to shame, a death by chocolate for elite twits. Well, shut my mouth!: Berkeley protests put the obedience back in civil disobedience 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Writers in both the conservative and the liberal press regularly refer to him as “a prat,” “a twit,” and “an idiot,” with no apparent fear of giving offense to their readership. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z "One woman said she wouldn't be visiting the shop tomorrow in protest against my promoting such an idiot, such a twit," says Mrs Trump. German bakery's Trump slices divide opinion - BBC News 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Some speculated that the Chinese were twitting Mr. Trump after his own provocative actions toward them. Trump Suggests Berlin Attack Affirms His Plan to Bar Muslims 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z He blasted the alt-right twits who celebrated his victory with Nazi salutes. Trump, the big-change guy? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z This one makes you – or “one”, he might say – feel like a twit. Jeremy Paxman: ‘I never felt I belonged anywhere’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “Demagogue,” “buffoon” and “wazzock” — a semi-obscure Britishism meaning, roughly, “twit” — were among the insults that echoed off the drafty stone walls in the mother of all parliaments. Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Yet now his main project is to ensure that serious-minded, long-form prose will offset the torrent of tweets, often penned by twits. Three-hit wonder 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Glenn Beck is a real twit and, from everything we’ve read, probably deserves to lose the defamation case brought by Alharbi. Editorials from around New England 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z But there is no way to apologize for all of the twits speaking for Trump. Donald Trump’s surrogate circus 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Is every pretentious twit on the planet playing this game? Pulitzer Prize-winner Phil Kennicott’s Pokémon Go diary 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself. The David Cameron Show 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z On a radio phone-in he was given a humiliating dressing down by Paul Bigley, brother of Ken, who told him: "You're a self-centred, pompous twit; even your body language on TV is wrong." Boris Johnson: His rise, fall, rise, fall and rise - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z No more twits or hysterics ruling over us, no more beef-fed murderers in ermine robes; we would choose for ourselves, a system that assumes some skill for discernment on the part of the chooser. The phony in American politics: how voters turn into suckers 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 is a successful finale, but an unsuccessful film 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z One stiff-upper-lip twit asks, “What do foreigners understand of our beautiful game?” FIFA Film: An Epic Fantasy 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Perry, however, is such an affable-seeming twit that it would surprise nobody if he got tricked into signing over the deed to his house to a wisecracking cartoon rabbit. Is there anyone who won't run for the Republican nomination in 2016? | Jeb Lund 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In this book, MI6, known to its initiates as “the hotel,” appears to be a collection of drunken, self-celebrating upper-class twits who get it wrong nearly every time. Review: “A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal,” by Ben Macintyre They emerge from homogeneous backgrounds and grow up to be elitist little twits. Don’t send your kids to Ivy League Schools! This means YOU. A stretcher-bearer at Leeds general hospital commented on the award of his OBE: "They often say he's a bit of a twit. Us, we say he's a bit of a bloody saint." David Hare on Jimmy Savile: biography of the man who 'groomed a nation' 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z He was saying what a twit I was, and that I didn't know a thing about music and that I'd got it all wrong. 'Why haven't you booked me for the Pyramid stage?': Michael Eavis answers famous festivalgoers' questions 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It's a bunch of upper-class twits on a summer lawn, they're all dressed in tennis gear and straw hats, and it turns into a gore fest. Monty Python's greatest skits 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z How to tell which tweeters are on to something, and which are just twits? Mining for tweets of gold 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z He suggested, for example, that the accounting profession – so massively culpable in the disaster – "behave like real men instead of dishonorable twits". Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are capitalism at its best and worst 2013-05-03T12:30:00Z Rather than corrupt Roman senators or courtly Spanish twits, he argued, our culprits are myopic politicians who are creating a middle-class entitlement state. Larry Summers and Glenn Hubbard Square Off on Our Economic Future 2013-05-02T09:01:08Z We're being proactive in preventing child abuse in a manner that is far more committed than any cop, social worker or self-righteous twit whose kid desperately needs to be spanked. Stop Telling Me I’ll “Change My Mind” About Wanting Kids 2013-04-17T09:45:08Z Upper-class twits is a firm favourite: seven minutes of carefully crafted observations of fopping idiots with equally pointless giddy women. Monty Python's greatest skits 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z There won't be any war between liberals and conservatives - if there will be a war it'll be done by ignorant twits with guns attacking someone else over what they believe they vote for. Senate Guns Down Background Checks 2013-04-18T16:35:31Z It seems you can be a twit in Australian rugby, but not on Twitter. Teams make the scrum a problem by bypassing rugby rulemakers' changes 2013-03-28T12:42:33Z All that happened was that a famous gun-toting twit from Pretoria shot and killed his girlfriend. Column: Oscar Pistorius of old is gone for good 2013-03-07T17:10:10Z You're funny; you crawl yourself up on the high pedestal and claim to be the more adult yet knee cap every argument you make by acting like a petty twit. Zero Dark Thirty Makers Defend Story 2013-01-09T09:55:00Z A PM who is not in touch with the real world is now going keep regularly in touch with a virtual world, a parallel universe, of focus groups, twits, and polls. Prime minister gets his own app 2012-11-08T00:09:19Z "It seems to me the word 'twit' - a Britishism heard on Monty Python - is being used more frequently here in the US." 30 of your Britishisms used by Americans 2012-10-16T23:37:53Z He also maintained that an occasional prank was essential to the spirit of journalism, and he enthusiastically abided by that belief, earning a reputation for twitting colleagues and candidates alike. James M. Naughton, Reporter and Editor, Dies at 73 2012-08-13T00:30:24Z It is a truth fast learned – a tweet can make a twit. Freedom of speech: Tweets, twits and liberty 2012-07-29T22:00:42Z The incident – alongside a series of other blunders – saw the Republican presidential nod christened "Mitt the twit" in the British press and ridiculed by London mayor Boris Johnson before a crowd of 60,000 people. Mitt Romney not ready to be US president, says Obama adviser 2012-07-29T19:43:05Z The Sun was ruder still: "Mitt the twit". London Olympics - what the papers say 2012-07-27T07:51:00Z When he taunted the Cavaliers' bench upon his return to Cleveland, we considered him a classless twit. Ventre: Admit it, you want LeBron to win a title 2012-05-02T21:01:29Z At home, superior wit she vaunts, And twits her husband with his wants; Her ragged offspring all around, Like pigs, are wallowing on the ground. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z While this country is allegedly the great melting pot, the negative tweets by some negative twits indicate the pot’s been simmering on the back burner too long. Jeremy Lin puts pun back in sports 2012-02-22T14:38:27Z He had thought more of them than she, who had twitted him with indifference. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Even unsuspicious Tom Emmett, whom he had been to see in Kilmainham gaol a few days back, twitted him with his liberty. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Wednesday came, and still he was well, with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in his teeth. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z "And thus, everyone in the state of Washington proceeds to forget about Mr. Joshua Garnett," one of the twits from Twitter wrote. What's the smell? Vile venom on recruiting message boards 2012-01-28T05:28:04Z He was a little squabby man, but very broad, with a nervous twitting laugh, and in his manner he was extremely intimate and confidential. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z It is disconcerting to the astute to be twitted with lack of skill. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Your Ladyship wrongs me in saying that I twitted you with being a great-grandmother. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z "I have told them to put the table outside," she said, as they came up, and the Squire said, "Capital idea, Nina, capital idea!" and turning to Lady Aldeburgh twitted her on her late appearance. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z She had never even found out this disability, and the doctor twitted her with complaining of the small patch of an�sthesia, while she said nothing of that which covered half her body. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z I asked him once about his fervent Thanksgiving Message and twitted him with being an unbeliever in what was published. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Nay, the Case is plain enough, and I cannot see why that should be a Poyson to me, that's a Preservative to Another: Only our Adversaries twit us with Objections of Law forsooth, and Religion. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z They were thought by many to be this year’s outstanding twit, and they possessed a remarkable capacity for running themselves over. The Fifth Down: Eagles' N.F.L. Playoffs Path Is Clear Despite Poor Start 2011-12-20T17:33:28Z Some of my seniors, on whom a career of facile pleasure had left its inevitable stigma, used to twit me with being a reserved young simpleton. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z She twits the eyes and the tongue with their present impotence, she will throw the head to the dogs and the birds of the air. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Having gained her point, she quickly drew their attention back to the wall-papers, which were eagerly discussed in their turn, amid the usual amount of nonsense and twitting on her part and Jack’s. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z No, he didn’t say much; and afterwards he rather twitted me with being ready the minute I was asked. Eunice 2011-12-05T03:00:40.560Z At Tyre before an hundred nobles assembled at a feast he twitted me with my poverty and boasted his charity. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z She was very hard and bitter at first, and twitted me with having to put up with her as a sister-in-law. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Next to the Brahmins, the Vidya class was respected, though sometimes they are unjustly twitted with what is called a hybrid origin. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Even Hoover had never twitted Lawton on the evidences of his poverty, and there were others of that immortal twenty-seven little better off than he. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z We do not wish to twit him with taking a mean advantage of his opponent, in order to deprive him of the chance of a fair contest. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z On this occasion Joe Randolph, a heavy player from Virginia, twitted Baker a bit for not pressing his luck—for quitting when he seemed to be winning four bets out of five. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z To this Marynia shook her head and said: "Oh, Aunt, if you only knew how they sometimes twit me!" Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z He had lured her afloat on impudently false pretences; she had a right to twit him with that. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The young man was famous among his acquaintances for a rather eccentric handwriting, and no one was fonder of twitting him about it than the maestro. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Porphyry, in the third century, twitted Christians with this erroneous ascription by their inspired evangelist to Isaiah of a passage from a Psalm, and reduced the Fathers to great straits. Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:31.587Z He comes once more to twit us about wine. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z He concocted a hot toddy while she twitted him about his use of the tea-table implements for so ignoble a use; and she made him talk of his work and of the Traction Company's affairs. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Not to put too fine a point on it, Bertram is a loathsome twit who treats Helena like something on the sole of his shoe. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Unforgettable Summer Kisses 2011-08-11T14:00:37Z Still, all the more honour to himself, when he should go back to twit them with their fears and tell them the story of his triumph! A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Some months ago I was twitted by the Editor of the Journal of the Anti-Vaccination League for maintaining a curious silence on the subject. Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon 2011-08-02T02:00:20.160Z As, for instance, when one day twitting Mary's too great self-esteem she remarked, "We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance." Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Some twit tweeted it and it became common knowledge. Mick McCarthy warns his Wolves players about 'twits who tweet' 2011-07-25T19:33:34Z "You have?" twitted the old man, almost dancing about her in his sudden excitement. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z The electron twits man upon his ridiculously wasteful processes of obtaining artificial light. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z Ultimately, so Alfred said, the Paveys had twitted him offensively upon the fact that he preached what he did not practise. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z "Good-bye, young mistress—good-bye, Miss Hyde, I'm so sorry that I ever twitted you about writing poetry, and some other things I won't mention." Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z He always is been the beatenest one for twitting me about little things around the house! J. Poindexter, Colored 2011-06-11T02:00:11.257Z A big special-election victory in upstate New York quickly sagged into a disastrous media frenzy over Democratic Congressman–Internet lothario Anthony Weiner's spectacular success in becoming the Twittersphere's most obvious twit. Numbers Matter. But Which Ones? 2011-06-09T12:15:00Z It was a perfervid and wild harangue doubtless, and some of my fellow-officers who heard it never ceased to twit me about my one burst of eloquence. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z “See how I ruined my daughter with kindness,” he twitted. Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border 2011-05-26T02:00:20.467Z Dignified prelates, hovering in draughty rooms and corridors, were twitted mercilessly by my Lord Wharton, who was the most contemptuous enemy the Protestant faith ever knew. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z We are all miserable sinners, and therefore we must not twit each other with sinning. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z You need not forever twit me with my stupidity in my first case. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z And what a giant of a creature was the man himself as he lifted the slender girl in his arms and playfully shook her to silence her amused twitting. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Next time I come to talk business—serious business—with men, with men of my age—I don't want to be twitted by any youngster. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Not unfrequently was I “twitted” with the blood of poor old Powhatan, which, after two hundred years of “whitening,” must have circulated very sparsely in my veins. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z It suits you ill indeed, my reverend sir, to twit me on the empire exercised over me by women. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The Abolitionists and anti-slavery Whigs, who had been twitting the Administration with indifference about Oregon, now that Texas had been secured, could certainly find no fault with the President's attitude toward the question. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z "You are always twitting me with my enthusiasm, Edmund: did I exaggerate this time?" Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z When I tell him that I can’t manage to keep within my allowance, he twits me with the prudence and moderation of Bruce, as if I could skin flints or count farthings like Bruce.” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z I know that he considered those people who refused to follow Wagner as old fogies, and my colleagues used to twit me for not being as enthusiastic as they were. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York. Chicago: America's Hottest City 2011-02-27T15:00:00Z Oh, were it day, and I on wing, I would teach them how to sing; But this is shocking; even twitter, Twit, twit, twit, were surely better. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z Certain of these were for ever twitting him publicly of his creed, race, and foibles. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Thus twitted by Mademoiselle's sharp tongue, Jean-Marie could not help but obey. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Mademoiselle Hena, you twit me with being inquisitive, but, it seems to me, that you are no less so. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z So those twits in government think we should pay for the privilage running these services as well as working for free. What is the big society? 2011-01-19T15:20:38Z She had twitted me before upon my lack of scholarly bearing which, as I had always explained, was but a mask to unsuspected profundity. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z “SportsDome” moves into a Comedy Central programming lineup dominated by “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report,” which twit the network news culture and Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel, respectively. Onion Hopes Parody of ?SportsCenter? Leaves Viewers Saying Boo-Yah 2011-01-10T01:02:35Z It is little more than half a century since Napoleon twitted the English people with being a nation of “shop-keepers.” Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Inconsistency was not a fault with which she had the right to twit her fellow Jabberwocks.... Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z The site has become one of an increasing number dedicated to vilifying fashionable twits who appear to care more about the next big thing than the welfare of their fellow man. Why do people hate hipsters? 2010-10-14T19:30:00Z Mike Watts Pact vice-chair and managing director, Novel Entertainment Twitter or twits? Letters to MediaGuardian 2010-10-04T06:00:00Z A second friend, reluctant, as he put it, to let the "rich city banker twit look like the good guy", matched the bid. Sponsorship: an etiquette minefield 2010-04-18T21:00:00Z First class was full of pompous twits barking instructions to their PAs on their mobiles. Luxury train 2010-03-09T13:04:00Z Then I felt I was so dependent on them–I was twitted of it–that it’s another reason why I ran away. The Girl From Tim's Place Spite o' my close, in-door employment, I had grown stalwart and strong; and I mind, on ae occasion, beating twa young fallows who had twitted me on being but a ninth. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 He twitted the surgeons who opposed him with their sudden discovery, now that an�sthetics were introduced, that there was something really beneficial in the pain and agony caused by their dreaded knife. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine And nobody can twit me with being an old maid, neither, for when a lady's got money there's no such thing! Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Mr. Levi's manner invited the twitting, perhaps: his pale, thin face bore always a nettled look, his eyes seemed ever hungry with some dark sorrow, and his mouth was always twitching. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew It was laughable to hear them twitting each other about vacating their quarters. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document In other days I had often been twitted in a jocular fashion by my friends about my membership of this particular club. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance They are accustomed to being twitted by rivals in the rear on their boundless faith in their city’s future greatness. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 The elderly housekeeper began to twit me with my rustic manners. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Pictures seemed constantly coming to him, like so many mocking Will-o'-the-wisps, flitting before his eyes when they were open, and twitting his worried brain when they were closed. Fragments of an Autobiography The long cherished hatred of years, and her rage at being twitted with her unhappy love, inspired her with this bitter answer. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. As any Samaritan would have done, she twitted the Jew with showing a frankness and friendliness which she supposed were wholly due to His own keen thirst and helplessness to quench it. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I I'm sure I never meant to twit him," said Edith; "and I think he's awfully touchy. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 I admit that my satire here was somewhat harsh and broad; but it had been provoked by an expression of Goldoni's, who twitted me with being a man out of temper with fortune. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Honored and respected parent, after having brought me up according to military regulations, don’t you think it is a little unjust to twit me with my manners? A Daughter of the Union To twit that poor player at life with his poor playing. Where the Pavement Ends And yet the advocate of temperance is twitted with his negligence of other causes which are perhaps as necessary; and he who pleads for foreign missions is reminded that we have heathen at home. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Jane’s mother twitted her with it, and the gal laughed; and there might be more strange things come to pass than for they two to come to be butler and housekeeper up ta old place.” The Sapphire Cross Then he held an illuminating though strictly imaginary conversation with Nancy, in the course of which he twitted her playfully about being so easily fooled. Sube Cane The poor fellows were staggering under their heavy loads, and their captors were twitting them about being pork butchers. Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac One day I would twit him with it. A Frontier Mystery Cobden and Bright were twitted with the lapse of their favourite from a central article of their own creed and commandments. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) He had been twitted about it wherever he had been, but you may recover yourselves, he added, condescendingly; there is some apology for you, only let a Society be formed instantly. Discussion on American Slavery SATURDAY, MAY 25, 18— I cannot but confess it—I felt hurt, twitted by the easiness, the unconcern of Fred. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) One evening the latter thought fit to twit him with his pugnaciousness. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections They were talking one day—Skelton and his former chums—of the chance they'd have now of waylaying the captain, and Blenke twitted them of not daring, even if they had the chance. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade I had at that time an educated Afghan who was teaching me Pashtu, and he sometimes twitted Jahan Khan with his inability to read. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches The police of other cities too have twitted them about it. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients Lord Palmerston at a recent City dinner good-humouredly twitted the Corporation on their dirt, and playfully threw the Thames in the face of the citizens. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) V�ron, when twitted with his objection, invariably replied, "I have yet to learn that the Queen of England is less enlightened than any of you, and she will not enter a railway carriage." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Somebody had told him of her Anti-Canteen and Soldiers' Aid Association at Minneconjou—and of its disruption, but he never twitted her as to that. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade When Achnalorrie is sold to that beastly American, to be twitted with what stags used to cost! A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June And again, the repartee of a Laconian to a man of Sparta who twitted him with being unable to stand as long as himself on one leg. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 One thing she knew well, that if Christine were twitted on the subject, she would hate Angus 55 Ballister, and utterly refuse to see him. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl The police were twitted with their inability to discover the thief. An Artist in Crime But as Kay twitted him with being a cowardly knight of Cornwall, he turned on him and smote him from his horse. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur My master twitted them with stories of the ghostly hunt of Thibaut, but it was plain the huntsmen thought it no joking matter. Francezka So with a couple of cinders you can twit him with his degradation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 While on guard in the car with them some of them twitted us about being afraid of our officers. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy Thou sly dog!” said the constable, as he continued to twit him. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time Canterbury came down from the "cloud-cuckoo-land" in which Selwyn twitted her with dwelling. A History of the English Church in New Zealand I think someone has been twitting him about the way he keeps it, or rather, doesn't keep it. Anxious Audrey So he set himself to twit and humiliate us. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 They twit us with our debased fondness for the tub, and they do but add injury to insult when they send us soap for use therein. Are we Ruined by the Germans? Some of the members of Congress are anxious to get away, and the Examiner twits them for their cowardice. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital At once the English speakers rallied to the name of any exercise; even to me, who have been often twitted with my sedentary habits, the thought of country air and stillness proved invincibly attractive. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Yet why he disposed to twit A fellow who does such wonderful things With the merest lack of wit? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The cynical York, at first, would twit the new king-of-arms, perpetually affirming that “his predecessor was a more able herald than any who lived in this age:” a truth, indeed, acknowledged by Dugdale. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors You twit me with praising these books so extravagantly. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It What all he twitted them with appears best from the speech that a Greek woman flings at him in the "Thesmophoria" of Aristophanes. Woman under socialism I used to twit my friend with this resemblance, and propose a new edition of the pamphlet, with the title thus improved, “Why Drink French Brandy, When We give You the 105 same Labels?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Nobody in the town twitted him as a runaway. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 For this my friends would sometimes twit me and say: “Old boy, you don’t know what you’ve missed!” Confessions of a Neurasthenic Mr O'Connell twitted them with the obvious fact, that they gave no protection under their bill by day, although it was notorious that almost all the assassinations were then perpetrated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 "There you are again—always twitting me because, after exposing myself to storm and the dangers of the sea, I take a little something to warm me up and make me comfortable." Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success But I had much amusement at his expense when I twitted him about his daughter Carmen, and his silly efforts to get possession of her!” Carmen Ariza The husband knew that some of these things were barbarisms, but he kept silent so that she would not mock him and twit him with his stammering. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' Then the Lord, with a wonderful access of pathos, altogether foreign to his general character, twitted Jonah with having pity for the gourd and none for the inhabitants of "that great city." Bible Romances First Series A bishop once twitted a curate with preaching indifferent orthodoxy. Arrows of Freethought So the gouts and the twits evened each other up after all, and the yarn run pretty smooth.” Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife She had dared to defy him, she had twitted him with his gaming, she had refused him––in favor of Elia. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country "Ah, you need not twit me with what I said before I knew what your book was made of," said Mrs. Hartley affectionately. Name and Fame A Novel “Come, summer visitant, attach To my reedroof thy nest of clay, And let my ear thy music catch, Low twitting underneath the thatch, At the gray dawn of day.” Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897 She had been about to twit him with his defeat. The Law-Breakers She’d say, ‘Yes, I know my yarn is full of gouts and twits, but when it’s doubled most likely a gout will come aginst a twit and make it even.’ Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife The hobbled horses grazed not far away; a night bird twitted solitarily in the brush; and from the depths of the forest came the scream of some savage creature out on its kill. The Heart of Thunder Mountain "Maybe you were afraid I might be fallin' in love with you," she twitted him, and burst into laughter again. The Vagrant Duke The fish-women who had been playfully twitting each other an hour before in their tartanas or at the customs house now sat watching each other, whenever a marketer came along, with hostile jealousy. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore But the Asas besought him to give way, while Loki twitted him with cowardice. Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas Well, that wuz one of the gouts in my yarn of life, but a twit wuz near by––it had its compensation. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Coward!" the word was thrown at him in a way that stung him like a lash, "do you dare twit me for what you alone are to blame? The Masked Bridal "Quit twitting a man with his misfortunes," whined Montezuma, of the now broken-heart. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 Jud twitted me about my mother taking in washing and about my father being a convict, and I knocked him down. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West To be twitted with Poland, after decades of Anglicization! Ghetto Comedies She wuzn’t a smooth spinner and there would be thick bunches in her yarn and thin streaks; she called ’em gouts and twits. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife His enemies could no longer twit him with being a "poorhouse nobody," yet they did all they could to dim his popularity and get him into trouble. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy Some of the girls openly twitted Maude with her defeat, an unwise and ungenerous proceeding which bore ill fruit. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life There are some people who delight in twitting others about some fault or physical defect, or because of lack of ability or something of that sort. Heart Talks Nothing pleased him more than to be twitted about his devotion to his lady. The Silver Maple To fear death more than ignominy is the disgrace—a truth which the French critic does not seem to have recognized when he twits the memory of Cicero with his scornful sneer, "J'ai peur." The Life of Cicero Volume II. The one twit him with being a white-livered coward, the other consider him to be either a sneak or a "deep fellow." A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science No, because I wasn't going to twit Jeremiah with being only step. Somehow Good The gunner twitted the sapper, the cavalryman made jokes at the A.S.C., and the infantryman groused at the whole lot. Life in a Tank It was a delicate subject with Mr. McPherson, and he could not endure to be twitted about it. The End of the Rainbow But when school life began and they became exposed to the twits and teasings of their playmates there developed a shy timidity and reserve when in the presence of others. A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Never before had he been twitted with impotence and failure. A Modern Mercenary Besides, so very little has transpired to go by that I can't see exactly what they could either congratulate or twit about. Somehow Good After which the man twitted with turning his coat, turned his back upon the place where he had been so ungraciously received, going off to more agreeable quarters. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Leslie twitted me with neglecting golf, and failing to attend the Inter-'Varsity cricket match. The Message ‘Twit! twit,’ cried a voice just above her; and the swallow fluttered to the ground beside her. The Olive Fairy Book "Did the fellows twit you about last night's work?" asked Noll curiously. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army It may even have twitted that board with its apathy in respect of trespassers. Somehow Good He would be able now to twit them all, even the captain, with running away while he, Chris, stood his ground. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades During our interview next morning with the Sultan, I twitted him on the skill and daring of Brunai thieves, who could perpetrate a theft from a friendly war-ship before the windows of the Royal palace. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo They can’t say anything but “twit, twit,” and die with the first breath of cold.’ The Olive Fairy Book You have twitted me with my cowardice," he said; "but you shall see that I am no coward. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm Do you know, Tishy dear, I was just going to twit you with the negro and his spots. Somehow Good When, in 1782--exactly a century later--Benjamin Franklin was appointed American Plenipotentiary at Paris, some of the brilliant French wits of that period twitted him on his admiration for the Bible. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds A stray bird twitted among the trees, but the great silence was settling down every hour as the feathered immigrants mounted from copse and dell into the blue vault of heaven. Colorado Jim She had twitted me with being “afraid”; afraid of her, she probably meant. Desert Dust I'm not so badly off that I'm going to have myself twitted at in that way. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm She wasn't at all sure that the name of that herb hadn't somehow got into the atmosphere—caught on, as it were, and twitted her. Somehow Good The ladies twit the men with a double perjury: that they have broken their vow to study, and their love vows. William Shakespeare The linden-trees were in blossom; while the swallows flew here and there, crying, "Twit, twit, twit, my mate is coming,"—but it was not the fir-tree they meant. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen When I was bound to wrest free after having done my utmost, she appeared to be twitting me because I would not submit to farther use by her. Desert Dust She had twitted him with being remiss in asserting his own rights in the presence of his rival, and he had accused her of being fickle, if not actually false. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm At the opening of the session I was twitted by Labour members of having obtained the seat by an informality. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 It would wound the boy to be twitted with it by his schoolmates.” A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance Such directions would mortify us exceedingly, and caused the men of the other companies to laugh at and twit us about our Captain. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 A devil—or was it he himself?—twitted me, incited me, and in a moment, with a gush of assertion, there I was, saying to her, my hat doffed: “I’ll walk over with you.” Desert Dust "You needn't twit me on my appetite, Bart Brittler!" exclaimed the other, angrily. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good "Ah, I know where you got your information," he twitted. The Unknown Wrestler And, when she returned to the wings, he twitted her proudly: The Bill-Toppers When it failed he grinned at the fellows who twitted him of his loss, and said: "Oh, come easy, go easy!" In Our Town Two of the girls twit each other about the attentions of a handsome young army officer at a ball the night previous, each covertly aiming to outwit the other. Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts He believed that she was really looking better, twitted her kindly on her pale cheeks, and with the optimism which declines to harbour fears and apprehensions he refused to believe that she was seriously ill. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir As I make such pretentious to accuracy, I should not like to be twitted even with such trifles on that score. My Recollections of Lord Byron “Don’t ever twit or try funny business with Armstrong,” once said a regimental sage. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Tartuffe made many enemies for Molière, especially among the clergy, who were not afraid of being twitted with their too ready application to themselves of the moral of the play. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 The dramatic coach insisted on presenting this play, for he wanted to twit a certain neighbor with it, but none of the ladies would play the parts of Pawlowa or Eulalia. The Comedienne From time to time he had twitted them on their fondness, taking an idle pleasure in forwarding the match. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel I had some doubt, however, about my size, for I was often “twitted” with being such a very little fellow. The Boy Tar His uncle twitted him as a braggart ashore who sang a different tune afloat. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Over in Johnson County, adjoining Floyd, where Walter Scott Harkins had an eye for timber, his young friend was being twitted for a different reason. Blue Ridge Country For this I was sure to be punished, as I was also for every fight I got into with the neighbor boys, whose great stronghold was to twit me of being "lazy and red-headed." Twenty Years of Hus'ling It was not the first time that Joey had been twitted with his father by his boyish companions. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Well, she might have been above me," said Mrs. March bitterly, "but she wasn't above twitting and snubbing me every chance she got. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 "If you are afraid, we will both back out, and then neither can twit the other." In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. Douglas constantly twitted Lincoln with belief in negro equality. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement See here, my father tells me to trim every mother's son of you that twits me of being lazy and red-headed. Twenty Years of Hus'ling Duncan, who was a quick-tempered lad, had twitted Stephen with his father's failure, and Stephen had resented it hotly. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 You twitted me, Sheffield, because my chapel would be useless. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert He twits incidentally the modern scientific interpretation of nature because of its want of cheerfulness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The long evening shadows were lengthening among the trees; sleepy birds twitted in dusky thickets; Lorraine slept. Lorraine A romance And isn't it strange that she twits every one else of being crazy? Twenty Years of Hus'ling They seemed to have been for ever twitting each other with getting ill, and, notwithstanding their philosophy, sending for a priest to minister beside their supposed deathbeds. Mushrooms on the Moor He was old enough to be twitted for bachelorhood, and to lay the blame upon an outdoor and out-of-town profession. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Following Mr. Martineau's example, the opponent of the undulatory theory might effectually twit the holder of it on his change of front. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But, nevertheless, her position was very grievous to her, and the more so now that her aunt had twitted her with ingratitude. Miss Mackenzie Then the rest of the company twitted the doctor on the clever ruse "of getting rid of one who deserved to be punished for keeping the soup waiting." The History of "Punch" Thus Antony's friends, when he was passionately in love with the Egyptian woman,420 persuaded him that he was loved by her, and twitted him with being cold and haughty to her. Plutarch's Morals “Oh, yes, I will, and if you hear three little twits like a blackbird’s, only louder, you can answer, for it will be I.” The New Forest Spy If a boy were deformed, they twitted him. The Return Of The Soul 1896 He twitted me about it, so that I declare I would have fought him, if I could have paid him first.” The Crofton Boys It’s easy to twit me when you’ve got everything you want—position, reputation, fortune, a living faith to keep you up to it. The Nebuly Coat And Theocritus of Chios twitted 386Aristotle with loving to live at the courts of Philip and Alexander, and preferring to dwell at the mouth of the Borborus to dwelling in the Academy. Plutarch's Morals He smiled, and bade me cheer up, when the naval commander went by; had he not twitted me for sitting safe under the bulwark and wincing when the four-inch gun roared? Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales You'll remember that yesterday you twitted me about having to be waited on. Apron-Strings But he remembered that he was out of debt,—that Meredith, would twit him no more,—and he began to whistle, so light-hearted, that no amount of money could have made him happier. The Crofton Boys But the other landlords twitted him with pretending to be an active magistrate, and yet harbouring a gang of gipsies at his own door-cheek. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North If you 393are twitted then with exile, why do you not answer, "The father of the glorious victor Hercules was an exile." Plutarch's Morals But he remembered that he was out of debt,—that Meredith would twit him no more,—and he began to whistle, so light-hearted, that no amount of money could have made him happier. The Crofton Boys Later the boy was twitted by playmates for that he had no father. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Long ago he had seized hold of a laughing joke of his father's, alluding to the names by which the three youngest children were called, and had twitted her with it ever since. Odd And who likes being twitted on week-days for opinions expressed on Sundays, more especially if he has not altogether acted up to them! Molly Bawn That element which still exists in the Jewish character of being purse-proud and offensively familiar in prosperity, is reported to have twitted the Christians with the worship of a Jewish prophet as a God. Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm Pooh I—easy enough—I sat and chaffed her, and laughed at her, and called her jealous, and twitted her, no end. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Josh would twit the fat boy on his enormous capacity for stowing "grub" away; and on the other hand, Nick generally came back with sarcastic remarks about "shadows," and "living skeletons," and such unpleasant things. Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie The newspapers would seize upon the case with avidity, and his friends would never cease twitting him about his valor in firing a bullet into the back of a fleeing burglar. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! I am making no complaint of the sly satisfaction which Alice seemingly takes in twitting me with my weakness. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice But Mrs Twitter was by no means bitter in her thoughts, and her conscience twitted her a little for having perhaps done Samuel a slight injustice. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Often before had my comrades twitted me with my indifference to the female sex. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America He knocked me down with the davit-block, for twitting him about that girl of his, that was drowned swimming after him. Rattlin the Reefer She twitted me about my worthlessness that night in Washington; bade me tear down the heavens. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! One time the grown men and women was choppin' two rows to our one, and a straw-boss slave twit us and call us lazy. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 At last Blackall began to be twitted with it, even by the fellows of his own age. Ernest Bracebridge School Days A hare twitted a Tortoise on account of his slowness, and vainly boasted of her own great speed in running. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse But look here, old fellow, you were ready enough to twit me about not being with the army. Marcus: the Young Centurion So he had been beaten, and was secretly twitted by Clara as an abject victim. Clayhanger Ida felt her face grow warm as she remembered that she had twitted him with having less nerve than the Indians; but Grenfell apparently was not yet satisfied. The Gold Trail He in reply twitted them with crying up nationality for the Greeks, and running it down when it told against the pope. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 A friend twitted him with his failure: "Didn't you shoot anything at all?" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers The profession of a gentleman at large, with which you twit me, I hereby renounce. The Master of the Shell "You mean, ma'am, that your young ladies—or some of them—might twit Corona for having a father who wears the Beauchamp robe." Brother Copas But so long as he lived the schoolmaster was twitted about the lady who threw him over. Auld Licht Idylls The Irish catholics twitted Mr. Gladstone with flying the flag of nationality in Italy, and trampling on it in the Ionian islands. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Another person adds: 'The soldiers, with cigars in their mouths, twitted the passers-by and jingled the money in their pockets.' Napoleon the Little Twice Gleason saw him tête-à-tête with Miss Sanford on the piazza, and the garrison ladies were slyly twitting him with his prospects of being cut out. Marion's Faith. Therefore I move to bring the matter up for full discussion here, whether we are to be twitted and taunted with remarks that a man is ready to meet us here or elsewhere. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. His enemies often referred to it and twitted him with it. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series It was true that when his mother twitted him in her own effective way he had felt rather flattened out; but then one's mother might have a heavier hand than any one else. The Tragic Muse "There's no good twitting me wid being a gel," interrupted Sue; "gels have their use in creation same as boys, and I guess as they're often the pluckier o' the two." Sue, A Little Heroine Yes, you have heard Jack twit me about my secesh brother. The Drummer Boy Old ——, of Meredith Bridge, used to twit the sun for not shining on cloudy days, swearing, that, if he hung up his "yallah dog," he would make a better show of daylight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 One night Halstead twitted me about it at the supper table, and I recollect that the lack of proper sensibility that I had shown scandalized the entire family. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's The Riding Officer thought this a highly amusing story, and would often twit Mr. Pennefather with it. The Mayor of Troy The eleven laughed at him and twitted him with having had a bride that had betrayed him. The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales "When the barges go by," he answered and I twitted him on his modesty. The Red Horizon Though she was unwavering in her resolution to keep faith with the man who had twitted her with taking all and giving nothing in return, she could not wholly restrain the tumult in her veins. The Stowaway Girl He twits at me because I don't understand Parliament and the British Constitution, but I know more of them than he does about a woman. Can You Forgive Her? While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" We grow impatient with their mistakes and twit them because they are unable to display as large and as valuable a stock as some one else, or because of their shabby establishments. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro It did not mend matters when the Général began first to twit him about his musical accomplishments, and then to catechise him on military matters. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World Thereafter the Customs House twitted him, as if it knew the full extent of his shame. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Had the judge been elected, he could easily have been magnanimous, or could have twitted her with good humour. The Mayor of Warwick Sir Wilfrid declares the truth, and twits the king with his falsehood, whereupon he has the guitar thrown at his head for his pains. Thackeray Now this easy swaying to conditions, when his welfare is in hazard, and for which the superficial thinker twits the negro with lack of manliness, is one of the strongest elements of his being. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro The Duchess behaved very well to her friend, saying not a single word to twit her with the love which she betrayed. Phineas Redux "I promised not to use that word again, and you ought not to twit 324 me for it, for it was only a pleasantry on my part." On The Blockade I think I was very pert with you all day,—and I don't think I'm pert naturally,—taking you up about the landscape, and twitting you about the Saguenay scenery and legends, you know. A Chance Acquaintance The Republican leaders, particularly Senator Lodge, were twitted with charges of inconsistency in advocating certain features of these treaties when they had violently opposed the League of Nations. From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy For a nation that has twitted the English with being a race of shop-keepers, our friends the Parisians who keep shops are not wanting in devotion to their own commercial interests. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' He had been twitted," he said, "with inconsistency to his principles by men who were simply unable to understand the meaning of the word Conservatism. Phineas Redux It was the farthest thing in the world from my mind to twit you for the word; I was only afraid that they considered me an imprudent officer on board of the flagship. On The Blockade In the Homeric hymn to Mercury, we read that the god extemporized a song, "just as when young men at banquets slily twit each other." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Yet why be disposed to twit A fellow who does such wonderful things With the merest lack of wit? Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen "And so Master Stanhope came seeking the bird that had flown," twitted Radisson's mother-in-law. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade There were certain men who could not endure to be twitted with having deserted the principles of their lives, when it was clear that nothing was to be gained by the party by such desertion. Phineas Redux No doubt by that time she had ceased twitting her mother on Felix's supposed intentions to make Frau Mendelssohn of Mme. The Loves of Great Composers He had been twitted more than once at Killaloe with his silence;—for it had been conceived by his fellow-townsmen that he had been sent to Parliament on the special ground of his eloquence. Phineas Finn The Irish Member It needed all my Christian charity and forbearance to keep from actually twitting her on the spot. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland The boys at school twitted me about my gambler uncle, though I've no doubt their fathers gambled as much as he. Foes in Ambush Hazel was condoled with, laughed at, twitted, by turns; until even Mr. Rollo's name in the distance made her shrink. Wych Hazel The linden trees were in blossom; while the swallows flew here and there crying, "Twit, twit, twit, my mate is coming;" but it was not the fir tree they meant. Christmas Stories And Legends "He could not then have twitted me with your words." Phineas Finn The Irish Member A skylark twitted earth's creatures from its aerial height. The Parts Men Play Piqued, she had twitted him on his silence. What Timmy Did If there was one thing above another that made Beth's temper rise, it was to be called "little one," and to be twitted upon being a girl. A Little Florida Lady Never shall about Stourmere, the stalwart fellows, with words me twit now my chief is down, that I lordless homeward go march, turning from war! Anglo-Saxon Literature The Irish members made loud opposition, and then twitted Mr. Gresham with his promise that he would not go on with his bill, if opposition were made. Phineas Finn The Irish Member In and out twitting, Here and there flitting, Happy in life as the long days go by. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books At table the lady twitted him with graceful badinage. The Half-Hearted He says, the villagers cherish the recollection of this fight; and get very angry when their neighbours twit them with the folly of it. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Gussie felt sure that she knew all about it now, so began to twit her sister about "giving in at last." Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces I recollect now enough of the charming dialogue from which you have taken occasion to twit me, to answer you in the same vein. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader On being twitted with his election-pledge he added a good deal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 What did I want to twit Ad for? Bad Hugh "It ain't goin' to be twitted abroad in Vienny nor any other town that we let you steal from outsiders in any such way as this," declared the first selectman, once on the ground. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Soon a gentle, drizzling rain began, and the punchers hurriedly made their beds, as they did so twitting N'Yawk about making his between our tent and the fire. Letters of a Woman Homesteader He had twitted her about her frank face. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The brother-like, he began to twit and tease her; and that was the last of the confidences. From the Ranks He twitted her with her improvement in the culinary art, demanding all sorts of impossible dishes in the near future for his brother's entertainment. What Necessity Knows I wondered what rare woman had taken the beautiful Jessy Lorimer's place; and I rather enjoyed the prospect of twitting him with his protestations of eternal fidelity to his first love. Winter Evening Tales Then her hand gripped his and she cried, "Oh, Richard, when you were wee, did the others twit you with it?" The Judge When one of the other prisoners twitted me on my lugubrious mien, I had an inspiration. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow What makes matters worse is that Jerrold, when twitted about his absence from reveille, loses his temper and gets confused. From the Ranks But I tell you one thing: she's got to stop twitting on facts. The Vehement Flame But they left in three days, and Melissa, whose wedding outfit was curtailed in consequence, twitted me very unkindly about my fine crazy lover. Winter Evening Tales You can't think what impudent sort of boys my brothers are, and they have always twitted me for my good fortune in getting into the Great Shirley School. The Rebel of the School Wednesday came, and still he was well; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in his teeth. William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 Yes—that's right, start twitting me because it's you who have the money. Joanna Godden There was no further question of her services, and therefore he felt himself to be quite entitled to twit her with the payment she had taken. The Claverings It did not seem exactly ladylike for her to insist on twitting him in such a personal way about his friendship for the Little Colonel. The Little Colonel's House Party You dug me out of Paradise by twitting me with becoming an appendage to a pencil! Far to Seek A Romance of England and India And with saucy wing that flapped in his face, The wild bird about him flew, With a shrilly scream, that twitted his case, "Why, thou art a sea-gull too!" The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood A nice fellow he is to twit a man with the bottle. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality They used to twit him about his inclination to stoutness, and he used to joke about it too, and say he had too good a time of it. The Pilot and his Wife He invited me to join him and when I refused seemed to find amusement in twitting me about my abstemious habits. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Lincoln twitted Douglas about being on both sides of the matter of extending the Missouri Compromise. Children of the Market Place You twitted me once for forgetting that biology applied to us two. Captivity Mr. Sichel, the latest of them, says that "he had pursued his own path and spurned the little arts of those who twitted him with roguery." In a Green Shade A Country Commentary That," chuckled Banneker, "was in the days when we used to twit the English with lacking a sense of humor. Success A Novel I seen it in her face when I twitted her on it, and she riz up agin me like a catamount. Tracy Park They twitted her about her clothes, and in a way reminded Elizabeth of the girls in the school she had just interviewed. The Girl from Montana Henceforth let no one twit the smoker with idleness and unimportance. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Of course, it might be that she had merely twitted him about the episode, as a jealous woman would do. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse He had twitted her, whilst mourning over a dead child, with having killed it by administering a quack medicine instead of attending to the physician's prescriptions; a charge which he acknowledged and repeated in print. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings You twit Harold for being poor, and call him a charity! Tracy Park I have been twitted by men of thought and learning"—whom he does not name—"for letting Mr. Froude off too easily, and I am inclined to plead guilty to the charge. The Life of Froude He twitted the inhabitants with living on the tops of trees, like rooks. A Wanderer in Holland His men can twit him on being forced to shed his gorgeous plumage in order to save his life. The Wings of the Morning "You needn't twit me with my age, Sterling," said Jane, with an injured sniff. Andy Grant's Pluck He did give us the house, but it ain't for you to twit me of that. Tracy Park The tradespeople twitted the cook with having to cook for them and were facetious about sausages and asked how one made sauerkraut. Christopher and Columbus A soldier is twitted with serving his master: As witches do their serviceable spirits, Even with thy prodigal blood. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Yes, auntie, I did wrong; but Lucy needn't twit me of it! Jimmy, Lucy, and All When twitted on the bench by his brother magistrates about the revival, he stood his ground manfully, and gave good testimony. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry He's been talking to me; he's been twitting the doctor on having been fooled. The Twenty-Fourth of June "She is always twitting me on my extreme youth." Elsie's Kith and Kin At a small party early in the season he tactlessly twitted her about Crampas and for days thereafter she felt haunted by the Major's spirit. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 "I do not need to be twitted of the fact," Mrs. Montague impatiently returned. True Love's Reward He defends the Commission of Triers and the Commission of Ejectors, and more than once twits Goodwin with having taken up at last the extreme crotchets of Roger Williams the American. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Then they twitted and taunted her and mocked her in all the devilish ways of their class. 54-40 or Fight I chuckled to myself to think of all the things I could twit dad about if ever he went after me again. The Range Dwellers With my mother it was a matter of life and death, for which reason, whenever she was twitted with favoring me, she was accustomed simply to reply: "That is because I suffered most for him." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 "Do you dare to twit me of my present extremity and misery?" cried Mrs. Montague, angrily. True Love's Reward Saxish men have accounted me for base; my sickness they twitted me with their scornful words, because I was led here in a horse-litter; and said that I was dead, and my folk asleep. Brut This was the very arch-mock And insolence of uncontrolled Fate, When the effect weigh'd seas upon my head To twit me with the cause. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Bursting into tears, Mrs. Lincoln replied that "she didn't think she ought to be twitted of her poverty." The English Orphans You have often twitted me in the teeth with hankering after the Court. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) The Earl of Derby twitted the United States with having yielded to force alone, but said the time "had not yet come" for recognizing the Confederacy. Great Britain and the American Civil War Averil found herself next to the doctor, who, rather to her surprise, forebore to twit her with her early morning adventure. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc. Shandygaff Did Heaven give you that sun-burn only that you might come home from Italy and twit us weaklings? Marcella Often the side edges of the stage itself were lined with young gallants perched on three-legged stools, who twitted the actors when they pleased or disturbed the play by boisterous interruptions. The Theory of the Theatre But when Mr. Punch, comparing generally "Fifty Years Syne" with To-day, says:— "Then HER MAJESTY, a Maiden Queen, fresh graced the Throne," "A SEPTUAGENARIAN" acidly objects, and twits Mr. Punch with premature failure of memory. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 Do you twit me with days when I had an Ideal, And saw the sear future through spectacles green? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Stop nagging, twitting, insinuating, suspecting those whose love you wish to hold. Supreme Personality I remember my mother and sisters twitted me about the swagger that came into my walk, after the receipt of Flood's letter, and even asserted that I sat my horse as straight as a poker. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days The friendship between Mr. Prohack and his picturesque quack had progressed—so much so that Eve herself had begun to twit her husband with having lost his head about the doctor. Mr. Prohack His followers were already known as Brownists; henceforth their enemies took pains to call them so and twit them with holding doctrines too weak for making martyrs. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty And an Army fellow," twitted Dave, "if he finds the fight too hard for him, can always dig a hole and hide in it. The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron But that the child should now dare to twit the head of the family with bad behavior was intolerable to Malka, the more so as she had no defence. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Inhabitants of the Five Towns may allow themselves to twit the historic and excellent Turk's Head, but they do not extend the privilege to strangers. The Regent When moving off with the money, he was twitted at as a "mean beggarly Scot," doing for money what no Englishman would. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The spectacled gentleman was Olivia’s father, and he mockingly rebuked Marian Devereux for having encouraged an infraction of parental discipline, while she was twitting him upon the loss of his wager. The House of a Thousand Candles But everything has its drawbacks, the water there hain't like Jonesville water; I don't say it to twit 'em, but it is a solemn truth, the water is riley, they can't dispute it. Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition She had twitted her with wanting to go to the Orsetti ball, although Enrica had never been to any ball or any assembly whatever in her life, and no word had been spoken about it. The Italians "Yes, you are," he continued to twit her, encouraged by her attempt at a smile. The Regent She had the perversity to consider this a twit, and gave me a stinging reply, which I will not repeat to you, because you are a woman likewise, and would enjoy it too much. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 It is said, that when twitted with having written a better panegyric on Cromwell than a congratulation to Charles II., he wittily replied, "You should remember that poets succeed better in fiction than in truth." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham By this time I had worked up quite a case, and was looking like a man injured in his finest feelings and twitted of his poverty. Vandemark's Folly |
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