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Winston Churchill was well-known for his witticisms.
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"Then if you're dreaming, you must be sleeping," he said, intending a witticism.† (source)
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With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.† (source)
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Peter has amazing presence of mind in the face of these so-called witticisms.† (source)
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I wasn't sure what frightened me more, the climb itself or the notion of being seen as a ghost; but I had no time for comforting witticisms, even to myself.† (source)
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You will perhaps appreciate then my disappointment concerning my witticism yesterday evening.† (source)
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Xavier endured these witticisms silently.† (source)
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He laughed at her witticism, and took her to see the parade of floats from the balcony of the ice cream shop.† (source)
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Such rumors inevitably provoked anti-ecumenism riots and, of course, inspired new witticisms.† (source)
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Another fabulous witticism from Olaf and the place erupted in haw, haw, haws and "What did he says?"† (source)
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Lord Baelish is a most amusing man, but one does not fight a war with witticisms.† (source)
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I don't swim without a chair," the cadet said, showing the chipped tooth as he smiled at his own witticism.† (source)
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JEAN: Your witticisms are not very inspired.† (source)
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He laughs, pleased with this witticism.† (source)
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This may seem surprising, as Candace is a North Carolinian, white Dartmouth grad who is a high-powered technology PR maven on the West Coast, mother of one and a clown enthusiast, whereas Delicious is a black D.C. native with a five o'clock shadow, a bunch of tattoos, and unusually long nails, who worked as a prison dishwasher while sharpening her excellent singing voice and off-the-cuff witticisms.† (source)
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They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he did not know where to escape from his forebodings of disaster and bis feeling that despite his striving for the good and his capacity for happiness, he had no power over the future.† (source)
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