most sapient
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At 75, William Allen White remains one of the country's most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"With what nation, most sapient sir?" asked the monarch, laughing.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various
Fare thee well, then," said Lowestoffe, "most sapient and sententious Master Moniplies.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
"What should he want to listen for, most sapient knight?"
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
“Don’t you see that that is the precise reason why they are here, most sapient of second officers? if we hadn’t been short-handed the cap’en wouldn’t have shipped them.”
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)