1.   Sharp featured, with a Cockney accent and a biting wit, Mr Bowles was a gifted teacher.

2.   Look out for some well-known local troubadours among the English faces on stage, as injustice is challenged through biting wit.

3.   Bobby Valentine kept things loose with his piercing voice and biting wit.

4.   Frank, known for his biting wit, criticized Republicans for their effort to stop Democratic criticism of Gingrich.

5.   He is a natural storyteller and has a biting wit, one that makes one either shout in agreement or in anger.

6.   He was a newspaperman first and last, a columnist with a biting wit, a business executive, civic leader, corporate board member and raconteur.

7.   A master of verbal thrusts and parries, he muzzled more than one adversary with his biting wit and quick repartee.

8.   No one was safe from the biting wit at the annual pre-Wimbledon party at Eastbourne.