Our sorrow at his passing is only surpassed by our gratitude for his treasured friendship, gracious teaching and mischievous twinkling wit.

Never to laugh with him or at him again, or to puncture any of his pretensions with her musical laugh or her mischievous wit.

He is also, at 58, a disarmingly friendly scholar with a mischievous wit, a full-time assistant, a plush office and the ear of deans and administrators.

Mr. Schofield, a portly, towering 64-year-old with a mischievous wit, has the older generation's reverence for Europe.

Since becoming an MP, he has used his acute brain and mischievous wit to ridicule Tory MPs.

The diehard fanatics who dominated sauceriana during the early years were a humorless lot and Gray's mischievous wit baffled and enraged them.

His love for Ruth, both expressed through his poetry and his mischievous wit, are encapsulated in the little romantic cards he composed each year for her.

The partriarch was a fat, balding old man with a mischievous wit, but it suddenly struck Scaurus how great his power was in Videssos.

My favorite City Ballet seasons begin and end with Miranda Weese, whose inherent elegance is allayed by a mischievous, arch wit.

He advocated his case for Sony while indulging a mischievous wit that has served him well over three decades in journalism and broadcasting.