* Shrubs of low-growing, spreading species

Shrubs cloth the lower slopes and species for Melastoma, Rhodomyrtus, Baeckea, Eurya and Gordonia are commonly found.

The arboretum contains hundreds of species of trees, shrubs, and flowers arranged in 19 collections ( 40 acres ) as follows: Butterfly Garden, Children's Garden, Columnar Trees, Conifers, Dwarf Garden, Flowering Trees, Founders Grove, Herbs, Hostas, Large Deciduous Trees, Medium Deciduous Trees, Nut Trees, Perennials, Shade Garden, Shrubs, Trees under Utility Wires, Wetland Trees, Windbreak, and Winter Interest.

Loaded with Goodman's wry wit and Jane's knack for malaprops (" Would you care to shoot a game of bridge, dear?

She became well known for her assertiveness and for her vicious wit with which many male colleagues, and once the Lord Mayor of London were attacked.

She had been the richest lady in Europe ; she was niece to Cardinal Mazarin, and was married to the richest subject in Europe, as was said ; she was born at Rome, educated in France, and was an extraordinary beauty and wit, but dissolute, and impatient of matrimonial restraint, so as to be abandoned by her husband, and banished the 17th-century male views on the topic: when she came to England for shelter, lived on a pension given her here, and is reported to have hastened her death by intemperate drinking strong spirits.

She is unhappy with the play, believing that Henry gives short shrift to the female character in order to show off his own wit through the mouth of Max.

This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote " no one but myself could like.

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

Many people thought the pair were married ; they were not, but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.

The Country Wife, produced in 1672 or 1673 and published in 1675, is full of wit, ingenuity, high spirits and conventional humour.

This group aimed to write poetry that spoke directly of everyday experience in everyday language and produced a poetry of urbane wit and elegance that contrasts with the work of their Beat contemporaries ( though in other ways, including their mutual respect for American slang and disdain for academic or " cooked " poetry, they were similar ).

The " Operas Portuguezas " of Antonio José da Silva, produced between 1733 and 1741, have a real comic strength and a certain originality, and, like those of Nicolau Luiz, exploit with wit the faults and foibles of the age.

His creative output during this time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere, demonstrate most vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach in his drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and 1970s.

* " Coming Undone wit It "-Korn vs. Dem Franchize Boyz ( co-written and produced )

German Romanticism, which followed closely after the late development of German classicism, emphasized an aesthetic of fragmentation that can appear startlingly modern to the reader of English literature, and valued Witz – that is, " wit " or " humor " of a certain sort – more highly than the serious Anglophone Romanticism.

To wit, in many cases if a certain song was deemed unsuitable for young listeners, the song in question would only be allowed airplay during the late evening or overnight hours when children were presumably asleep.

prison unto the hour of nine before noon on the morrow, to wit, the Tuesday after the closing of Pasche ( i. e. Easter ), and then caused her to be brought to the Guildhall at Warwick before divers of the justices of the peace in the county then sitting in sessions and caused her to be indicted by the name of Ankarette Twynneowe, late of Warwick, widow, late servant of the duke and Isabel his wife, of having at Warwick on 10 October, 16 Edward IV., given to the said Isabel a venomous drink of ale mixed with poison, of which the latter sickened until the Sunday before Christmas, on which day she died, and the justices arraigned

Some examples include Kiriko Isono, who debuted as part of a singing trio and made a name for herself based on a rapid wit and willingness to put herself down for a laugh ; Mari Yaguchi, the third leader of Morning Musume who left the group in 2005 due to a scandal but has continued to appear on variety shows and Japanese television drama since leaving ; the late Ai Iijima, a former porn starlet ; and Yuusuke Santamaria, who fronted several bands before moving into acting and being a tarento.

That idea that this animal may possibly prove to be a new species of great cat will not be generally entertained ; but it must be remembered that a far more conspicuous creature, to wit, the okapi, has only been made known to us of late years, and that it is possible that such an animal as that now in question frequenting, as it would undoubtedly do, dense forest regions, and being of nocturnal habits, might have escaped observation.

" Lord Orford mentioned many particulars relative to the late Mr. Topham Beauclerc celebrated wit.

The only other writer I can think of offhand who had that wonderful ability to totally ambush the reader was the late Cornell Woolrich ... but Woolrich did not have Levin's dry wit .”

L ' esprit de l ' escalier or L ' esprit d ' escalier ( literally, staircase wit ) is a French term used in English that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late.

The first new single, Let Go ( 2007 ), played on radio wit an announcement that the second album, Come On Over To The Other Side, would be seen in the spring 2008 release.

Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta ( now lost ) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia.

The validity of the dating methodology has subsequently been called into question, and the age of the shroud is still the subject of much debate despite the existence of a 1389 Memorandum by Bishop Pierre D ' Arcis to the Avignon Antipope Clement VII mentioning that the image had previously been denounced by his predecessor Henri de Poitiers ( Bishop of Troyes 1353-1370 ), stating " Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.

His wit was very sharp, too sharp for the administration, which stopped a periodical he had started, The Pen-Viper, after the first issue.

For example, one episode depicts characters dancing to Will Smith's " Gettin ' Jiggy wit It " mere weeks after the song's release, whereas the sequence itself was designed and animated months earlier.

One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: " One of my absorptions [...] has been James Joyce's new novel, digging out its buried keys and resolving that unbroken chain of erudite puzzles and finally coming on lots of wit, and lots of beautiful things has been my midnight recuperation.

De Jong is known for his dry wit and his abilities as a team leader, his cabinet was the first cabinet after World War II that completed a full term without any internal conflicts.

His Book V of Nicomachean Ethics, after an outline of positive characteristics ( e. g., " liberality ," " noble-mindedness ," " wit ") encouraged in humans, sketched some characters based on their possession or lack of these characteristics.

Walter William Skeat noted that the Anglo-Saxon word also appears in Icelandic hvitasunnu-dagr, but that in English the feast was always called Pentecoste until after the Norman Conquest, when white ( hwitte ) began to be confused with wit or understanding.

Director W. S. Van Dyke chose Loy after he detected a wit and sense of humor that her previous films had not revealed.

His sexual orientation became a topic of national controversy and media scrutiny after several appearances on Dick Cavett and other talk shows, but the overwhelmingly positive and grateful feedback from the gay community led Loud to embrace this role with passion and flamboyant, often self-deprecating wit.

But, depressed in spirit as Charles Lever was, his wit was unextinguished ; he was still the delight of the salons with his stories, and in 1867, after a few years ' experience of a similar kind at Spezia, he was cheered by a letter from Lord Derby offering him the more lucrative consulship of Trieste.

Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.

Another legacy was his wit — after writing a serious book " The Uses of the University ", Kerr surprised an audience with this riposte --" The three purposes of the University ?-- To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

David Lehman, in his book on the New York poets, wrote, " They favored wit, humor and the advanced irony of the blague ( that is, the insolent prank or jest ) in ways more suggestive of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg than of the New York School abstract expressionist painters after whom they were named.

In 1861, after two false starts in poetry and fiction, he made his first noteworthy appearance as a writer with The Season: a Satire, which contained incisive lines, and was marked by some promise both in wit and observation.

Soon after, Hogan left the WWF to pursue other interests, which left Yokozuna and Fuji to claim that they had ended " Hulkamania " ( to wit, that would be Hogan's last appearance in the WWF for nine years ).

Returning to France after World War II, he continued to make films that were characterised by their elegance and wit, often presenting a nostalgic view of French life in earlier years.

Fry, as the Los Angeles Times put it several years after his death, was " known everywhere for his brilliant parliamentarian tactics, his shortcutting of time-consuming wrangles, the pungency with which he cut through intricate debate snarls, and for his wit and incisive dominance of any situation.

A speech of his on the civil list after the Revolution is cited by Macaulay as a proof that his reputation as a man of wit and ability was deserved.

But as House Calls did a few months ago, it starts out promising genuine wit and originality only to fall back on more familiar tactics after a half-hour or so.

According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Versed is a " book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.

* You Couldn't Make It Up ( 1995, Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-00238-0 )-named after one of Littlejohn's catchphrases, and described on the jacket as " a brilliant collection of liberal-skewering wit and wisdom ", this is a book of recollections and opinion pieces on subjects such as political correctness, politicians, corporate " fat cats ", the European Union, and the British Royal Family.