The vividness and distinction of Pascal's phrase, his singular faculty of inserting without any loss of dignity in the gravest and most impassioned meditation what may be almost called quips of thought and diction, the intense earnestness of meaning weighting but not confusing the style, all appear here. [Please select]
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The stuttering which in some persons might have seemed an annoyance only served to add a certain spiciness to his good-natured quips. [Please select]
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He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er.' [Please select]
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He answered their jests with a jest, their quips with a quip, and when they were serious so was he. [Please select]
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Not only does he imitate the notes of birds about him, but he invents all manner of quips and vocal jugglery. [Please select]
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And they were soon between bottle and stopper, and quips a-coursing. [Please select]
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He was merry, and full of quips and jests; she was reserved and melancholy. [Please select]
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In a scene of such exalted beauty, Gaetà 's little quips and quirks struck a wrong note. [Please select]
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Never had such a mite of a man been seen, while his quips and pranks kept the whole buttery in roars of laughter. [Please select]
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Of course, the fun-makers waited for suitable opportunities to spring their "quips and cranks," so that no merited interest in the doing could be lost. [Please select]
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