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Значения термина quick-wittedness на английском

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rapidez mental

Intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay.

        rapidez mental
        Использование термина quick-wittedness на английском
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        There is a moral quick-wittedness which sees the smile behind the threatening mask of Fate.
        Humanly Speaking
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        Despite his quick-wittedness in countering Terrace and the press, the LEMSIP director was in trouble.
        Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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        Mr. Murch's private secretary held a position requiring quick-wittedness and suavity in no common degree.
        White Ashes
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        By her own quick-wittedness and adroitness she had turned the tables on her would-be destroyer.
        And Then There Were None
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        Others remembered his quick-wittedness in helping his friends.
        McClure's Magazine December, 1895
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        While a certain amount of quick-wittedness might be appropriate, a weekly test of macho strength is not.
        The Guardian
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        He had trusted to his own cunning and quick-wittedness; he had been shrewd, not over-scrupulous, and successful.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
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        Tommy appreciated her quick-wittedness in realizing that he might be staying at the inn under an assumed name.
        The Secret Adversary
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        The same quick-wittedness and energy which had made him a good polo player made him a good reporter.
        The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig...
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        He discovered no contemptible sagacity and quick-wittedness in the science of horse-flesh, and was eminently expert in the arts of shooting, fishing, and hunting.
        Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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        It is true that Tom had never confessed to the feeling that glowed in his breast, but Grace, with a woman's quick-wittedness, comprehended it.
        Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
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        "You are quite a match for your grandmother in quick-wittedness," he said.
        Letters of Two Brides
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        "Nothing serious," said Julie, with that wonderful self-possession which a woman's quick-wittedness usually brings to her aid when it is most called for.
        A Woman of Thirty
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