In what a posture would England have been now, he cried, if those wiseacres had been listened to, who were for trusting the defence of England solely to the militia and the fleet!
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
But what she, she of all girls in the world, could find to attract her in him,-this was what puzzled the brains of all the wiseacres in Lemberg.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Therefore, the gossips and wiseacres of the Calvert decided that young Roland Bayard must be a messenger from "his first wife."
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth