What is "wirt"

Usage examples of "wirt".

The last of the ringing eulogies to Adams and Jefferson was not delivered until October of 1826, when Attorney General William Wirt addressed Congress in Washington, speaking longer even than Webster had.

Miss Wirt, who had lost her mechanical smile as she comprehended the significance of the unpositioned ident-flags.

Hoping that this might be my chance, I summoned up the few Djangeh words I knew and cried in the tongue: "Ibn Asl anadsch rehn, badd ginu Scheik kador, Scheik and wirt, afod rahn --" These words, which mean: "Ibn Asl is a wretch.

William Wirt insinuated himself into the history of American prose if not of law by a splendid flowery description of Blennerhassett’s Island as a perfect and innocent Eden to which Aaron Burr, the Devil himself, came as the sulphurous tempter of poor Blennerhassett (a monstrous composite of Adam and Eve), deliberately, cruelly changing to Hell a pristine island Paradise.