clear-witted

Within two days Britain's High Commissioner for New Zealand W. Pember Reeves gave this answer in the Times: These clear-witted intelligent people from New Zealand are apt to use their brains as well as their muscles.

How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history Frank Keating 2010

Trevelyan, who was sharpsighted and clear-witted, soon saw that it was so, and spoke to Priscilla on the subject before she had been a fortnight in the house.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

I was mistaken; it was nothing but the innate courtesy of a Spaniard, and the poetical turn of thought and language often to be found in the lowest classes of this clear-witted people.

The Alhambra 2002

I was mistaken; it was nothing but the innate courtesy of a Spaniard, and the poetical turn of thought and language often to be found in the lowest classes of this clear-witted people.

The Alhambra 2002

Indeed, they would have seen more reason in ascribing their clear-witted verse to an ice-pack, than to the bibulous hours preceding its application to the fevered brow.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

"On the contrary, you are unusually clear-witted," was the answer.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

Just a clear-witted, womanly girl, except that her cause had driven fear from her heart, and occupied all her soul, to the exclusion of lesser things.

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

There was perhaps a slight physical resemblance between Adalbert and his parents; but whereas he knew himself to be one of the astutest princes in the German Empire and his wife to be an uncommonly clear-witted woman, no father's partiality hid from him the fact that Adalbert was obtuse.

Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

Rose was clear-witted enough to see that persistent opposition would only intensify the halo of romance which her infatuated brother had discovered upon the brow of the

An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898

The crisis had reached a point when this modest, uneducated, clear-witted, fearless maiden was launched by her "voices" to the scene of battle, there to inspire hope and enthusiasm in the hearts of her people.

The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892