| 单词 | mother wit |
| 例句 | She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What she needs are songs that unwind her instead of proving her authenticity, godliness and mother wit. New Music by Currensy and Ashton Shepherd 2011-07-11T22:19:20Z As for their viewing of Spike Lee’s movie, the scene that Tanne derives from it is a minor masterwork of ironic psychology and mother wit. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Gault eventually got there, reclaiming a bit of her mom's "mother wit." The quest for "perfect parenting" is screwing us all 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z To understand the limits of my own education and the farther reach of mother wit. James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and more from Seattle poet and author E.J. Koh’s bookshelf 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z But mother wit and “needs must” trained him in a short time to win the ear of an audience. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z From jigging veins of riming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The other was tall, angular and sardonic, with a mother wit smacking of the soil and the salt water. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z Flight was evidently useless; he must put the best face on it and trust to mother wit. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z The stars, who dwell on heaven's exalted stage, Baffle the wise diviners of our age; Take heed, hold fast the rope of mother wit. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z To support this whimsy he found it useful to revive the abandoned "argument from design"; and mother wit, still working whimsically, leaped to the conception that the organs of our bodies are machines. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Ye mariners, ye mariners, That sail upon the sea,30 Let not my father or mother wit The death that I maun die. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z He kept me from forgetting my Scottish tongue, and there was never a day that he did not supply me with some phrase sappy with mother wit and drowned in Scotland. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Fortunate will it be, if by instinct and mother wit we take life at first hand, converting it forthwith into thought and habit. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z She had often had to save situations by sheer, quick mother wit. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z "I like thy magic better than thy mother wit," said Don Hernan, with a frown. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico I had plenty of mother wit, you could read in my eyes that I had a good heart, and, besides, I was by no means poor. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. That so inexperienced an infant should notice it was surprising, but that he should at once start for it showed remarkable "mother wit." Upon The Tree-Tops Now, judgment and that common sense, or mother wit, which is so much better than mere routine practice, evidently characterized the early treatment of the Retreat. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles She was unconventional at all times, and sometimes wilful—inheriting that native strength of mind and mother wit which are generally admitted to be a part of the equipment of the typical American woman. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches This sally amused all but the young gentleman who "run wid de machine," and attracted general attention towards the old man, in whose eyes and wrinkles lurked a goodly share of mother wit and shrewdness. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Common sense dispenses with learned disquisitions, and tries everything with simple mother wit. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The quaint character of Rob, the loss of whose legs was supplied by a wooden bowl strapped to his thighs, his misfortunes and mother wit, far outshine those fair to look upon. The Masked Bridal Sam Weller is delightful in his place; but he is simply impertinent when he fancies that his shrewd mother wit entitles him to speak with authority upon great questions of constitutional reform and national policy. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice All these works, however, exhibit a remarkable command of the mother tongue, a shrewd common-sense and mother wit, a fervid2750 spiritual life, and a wonderful knowledge of the English Bible. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 So in the Prologue to Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great: From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar That the boy was shrewd and active, and possessed of a ready mother wit, will be evident enough from the following incident. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson We can but use our Attic mother wit, and trust the rest to destiny. A Victor of Salamis Sedgwick is a different, and, as a whole, an inferior man; but a man every inch of him, and an Englishman too, in his thoughts, and in his fine mother wit and tongue. Spare Hours The officers had to know everything which the General asked them about, and were often obliged to work out for themselves, with the aid of their mother wit, the details of their extremely laconic instructions. The Day of Wrath A majority of these recruits were Irishmen—some of them not wanting in the mother wit of the race. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Brakesman are almost invariably selected from those who have had considerable experience as engine-firemen, and borne a good character for steadiness, punctuality, watchfulness, and “mother wit.” Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson If it wus not fur my mother wit don't know what would become of me. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 “No man has wit of his own; if he borrows it, it’s not his own; if he has it in himself, it’s mother wit, so it’s not his.” Jacob Faithful He had plenty of cunning and mother wit, and was skilled in woodcraft, but he was utterly innocent of anything which could fairly be called education. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys It was all of no avail, and finally, when I had almost reached the stage of laughing aloud, my mother wit came to my rescue and I sat down. Tom, Dick and Harry He was less subtle, less learned, than Erasmus; but in mother wit, in elasticity, in force, and imaginative power, he was as able a man as ever lived. Short Studies on Great Subjects But during March that spring, a shrewd stroke of mother wit, on the part of Addison, greatly relieved the situation and, in fact, quite set us on our feet in the matter of funds. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's They always managed to scramble out again somehow, occasionally with the aid of our guns, most often without any help but their own mother wit. With Our Army in Palestine Bunyan's works were coarse, indeed, but they showed a keen mother wit, a great command of the homely mother tongue, an intimate knowledge of the English Bible, and a vast and dearly bought spiritual experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" There are more learned men in the Church of Scotland, but none have a greater share of sagacity, penetration, and strong, pungent, mother wit. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities Our youngsters were both possessed of ready mother wit, and the world was charmingly mystified. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Henceforth she had entered upon a new course, in which her beauty and her mother wit were to exact their full value, but in which her heart was to count for nothing more. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance She hesitated, but her mother wit soon extricated her from the difficulty. Medoline Selwyn's Work Then, good Cuthbert, thou wilt be forced to trust to thine own mother wit for a livelihood. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot The thing to do was to find the girl, and trust to pluck and mother wit for the rest. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest There was a great deal of mother wit about Archie, and quite as much shrewdness as folly. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest It is not his engines alone that conquer the sea, nor his engines plus his own mother wit. Love Stories George Hill, also a fellow-passenger, was about twenty-four years of age, quite black, medium size, and of fair, natural mother wit. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Crudeness may chill, and confidence offend, But manhood, mother wit, and selfless zeal, Speech clear as light, and courage true as steel Must win the many. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 The minister was, when sober, a man of parts, with some education and a deal of mother wit; in addition, a close and shrewd observer of the times and people. Audrey The time for their departure being arrived, they were furnished with money, and with a tutor who was more remarkable for integrity than for mother wit. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Suddenly her mother wit came to the rescue. Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl Catharine was twenty-four years of age, of a dark chestnut color, possessed a fair share of mother wit, and was fitted to make a favorable impression. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. He would trust to his legs and his mother wit, which had always helped him out of his scrapes thus far. The Downfall An ounce of mother wit, quotes the new Lord Rector, is worth a pound of clergy, and while he admires Demosthenes, he prefers the eloquence of Phocion. On the Choice of Books And on this same mother wit and wisdom, Rose called internally, when that day, about eleven o'clock, she was summoned to the library, to give Harry his audience. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel This," says he, "they call mother wit; and the most illiterate have a quickness in parrying the effect of a question by an evasive answer. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 Nor was he all muscle by a great deal; he was well balanced as to mother wit and shrewdness. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Anyway it had seemed a jolly lark at the time—a test of the mettle and mother wit of both of them to "get away with it." Wild Wings A Romance of Youth That is an old saying, an old proverb, "An ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy." On the Choice of Books But the higher command seemed a million miles away, and we were left to use our mother wits. Mr. Standfast Nay, Newport, a child in years, the bright-eyed maid, Yet with heart of gold and mother wit Working e'er to save our colony from ruin. Pocahontas. A Poem William Nelson, was a man of a dark chestnut color, medium size, with more than an ordinary degree of what might be termed "mother wit." The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Moreover, her manners were good, she had keen mother wit, much gaiety and enthusiasm, and was, in short, a very attractive young person. The Court of the Empress Josephine Thus we worked all that morning, Green with the brake, the whip, and his tongue; I with the lines, what strength I had and mother wit in lieu of experience. A Woman Tenderfoot The Sayings of Agur, on the contrary, tell their own interesting story, without need of note or commentary, to him who possesses a fair knowledge of Hebrew grammar, and an average allowance of mother wit. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur And to this I was not guided by mother wit, but by a surer and a sadder token. Moonfleet Fortunately he was possessed with more than an average amount of mother wit, and he soon comprehended the requirements of the Underground Rail Road. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. The scene at the "Rainbow" inn is bristling with mother wit. Halleck's New English Literature They agreed in opposing freedom to formality; in substituting for the old, new aims and methods; in preferring a grain of mother wit to a peck of clerisy. Byron Had it not been for the sharpness of his mother wit, he would certainly have been landed at that moment. He Knew He Was Right He was rather a silent man, though not deficient in mother wit. South Wind This faculty is therefore the specific quality of the so-called mother wit, the want of which no scholastic discipline can compensate. The Critique of Pure Reason Will my caterpillars show a little of his mother wit? The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Emerson implies that there is one thing a genius must have to be a genius and that is "mother wit." Essays Before a Sonata Then bracing myself for the ordeal, through which I looked to what scant information I possessed and my own mother wit, to bear me successfully, I strode across to admit my visitor. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes But none the less her shrewd mother wit and kindly heart instructed her in things not taught in the schools. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Well, then, let us dismiss them and manage as best we may with our own poor mother wit, as the phrase is. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age They were coarse, indeed; but they showed a keen mother wit, a great command of the homely mother tongue, an intimate knowledge of the English Bible, and a vast and dearly-bought spiritual experience. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Never did Andre-Louis disillusion him by revealing the fact that his skill was due far more to M. des Amis' library and his own mother wit than to any lessons received. Scaramouche For, to my mind, the princess—not to speak of her husband the little Tailor—did more with a single little hair and her mother wit than King Solomon with all his wisdom. Twilight Land |
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