William Wirt
Attorney General and author, 1772-1834
Cited as Wirt. — 7 quotations
Breast
The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.
Buffeting
He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm.
Contagious
His genius rendered his courage more contagious.
Flash
No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.
Precociousness
That precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.
Robe
Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring.
Vehicle
A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly.