He was rather a silent man, though not deficient in mother wit.

She hesitated, but her mother wit soon extricated her from the difficulty.

Where shall we look for mother wit?-orsay, common suckling's instinct?

Rufus was not largely endowed with mother wit, or prudence.

Will my caterpillars show a little of his mother wit?

As long as wit is mother wit it can be as wild as it pleases.

The scene at the "Rainbow" inn is bristling with mother wit.

Suddenly her mother wit came to the rescue.

Then, good Cuthbert, thou wilt be forced to trust to thine own mother wit for a livelihood.

Use your mother wit to escape it.

I've as much mother wit as he.'

However, if you don't fight your way back, you'll be just another rich toad with no mother wit.

And to this I was not guided by mother wit, but by a surer and a sadder token.

John is nineteen years of age, mulatto, spare made, but not lacking in courage, mother wit or perseverance.

The thing to do was to find the girl, and trust to pluck and mother wit for the rest.

Nor was he all muscle by a great deal; he was well balanced as to mother wit and shrewdness.