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An underwitted youth seemed to get religion in one of these times of shouting and excitement.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 06, June, 1889 Various

All underwitted persons, so far as my experience goes, have this craving for copper coin, and appear to estimate its value by a miraculous instinct, which is one of the earliest gleams of human intelligence while the nobler faculties are yet in abeyance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

It said not a word, being perhaps underwitted and incapable of prattle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

If there can be found some principle of economy in knowledge, common to artists and scientists alike, which will make it possible for a poet to know something, and which will make it possible for a scientist to know a very great deal without being -- to most people -- a little underwitted, it would very much simplify the problem of being educated in modern times, and there would be a general gratefulness.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

I could only again tell myself that my first impression had been right, and that he must be underwitted to be so absolutely impervious to gratitude.

My Young Alcides Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

This morning an underwitted old man met me on a walk, and held a pretty long conversation, insisting upon shaking hands (to which I was averse, lest his band should not be clean), and insisting on his right to do so, as being "a friend of mankind."

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"All underwitted people have that look," said Miriam scornfully.

The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Not that it said a word, for I rather think it was underwitted, and could not talk; but its face expressed such perfect confidence that it was going to be taken up and made much of, that it was impossible not to do it.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Not that it said a word, for I rather think it was underwitted, and could not talk; but its face expressed such perfect confidence that it was going to be taken up and made much of, that it was impossible not to do it.

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

May your hereafter be filled with overfed and underwitted prey.

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