Vulgar words in Tales and Novels — Volume 04 (Page 1)
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"The learned man replied, 'Blockhead, as you are, why then do you say to me what you are now saying?'"
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The little Irish blockhead started from his form, and, throwing his grammar on the floor, leaped up higher than he or any boy in the school had ever been seen to leap before, and, clapping his hands, he exclaimed, "A letter from my mother!
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He never more complained unjustly that Dominick broke Priscian's head, seldom called him Irish plockit, and once would have flogged a Welsh boy for taking up this cast-off expression of the master's, but the Irish blockhead begged the culprit off.
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"No, sir; damn the O'Reilly estate," cried he, huddling the maps together on the desk, and taking up the bank notes, which he had begun to reckon for the purchase money.
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What a parcel of blockheads you all are!
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I once caught myself saying of myself, "that careless blockhead has forgotten my nightcap."
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He could now, with a most plausible face, protest to a _poor devil_, upon the honour of a gentleman, that he should be paid to-morrow; when nothing was farther from his intentions or his power than to keep his word: and when _to-morrow_ came, he could, with the most easy assurance, _damn the rascal_ for putting a gentleman in mind of his promises.
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"That blockhead of a groom is but just come to town; he does not yet know how to drive away a dun--but he'll learn.