The 3,274 occurrences of blockhead

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Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for a bone to stand on!

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Davus sum non [Lat][Oedipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" clitellae bovi sunt impositae [obs3][Henry V.][Lat][Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon [Fr]; "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound" [Churchill].

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bull head, dunderhead, addlehead[obs3], blockhead, dullhead[obs3], loggerhead, jolthead[obs3], jolterhead[obs3], beetlehead[obs3], beetlebrain, grosshead[obs3], muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead[obs3]; numbskull, thickskull[obs3]; lackbrain[obs3], shallowbrain[obs3]; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit[obs3]; dunderpate[obs3]; lunkhead sawney[obs3][U.S.], gowk[obs3]; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot- poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.

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Yet I was still such a blockhead that I missed the lesson of that fear, and in spite of Weena's distress I insisted upon sleeping away from these slumbering multitudes.

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The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.

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"Get out of here, or I'll throw you out, you miserable blockhead!" roared Rokoff, taking a threatening step toward the Swede.

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"By heavens, if they do not, I will kick them out of the room for blockheads.

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Besides, he brings up his sons to follow his steps; and if he findeth in any of them a foolish timorousness, (for so he calls the first appearance of a tender conscience,) he calls them fools and blockheads, and by no means will employ them in much, or speak to their commendations before others.

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"If you only gave me a little more credit for intelligence," she said, "you would find that I am not such a blockhead as you think I am."

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She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle.

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But what is that blockhead of a benevolent gentleman doing?

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By the way, how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?"

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I said to myself: 'Blockhead!

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"The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse.

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I'll go hunt up that old blockhead, that absurd numskull!

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But he was a brave blockhead.

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"The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras.

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You need not fear me; I have almost given up every serious idea of her; but I must be a blockhead indeed, if, whatever befell me, I could think of your kindness and sympathy without the sincerest gratitude."

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"Well-oh-well-why, there was a great deal of fighting, and they were all blockheads, and-I can't tell it just how you told it-but they wanted a man to be captain and king and everything-" "Dictator, now," said Letty, with injured looks, and not without a wish to make her mother repent.

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The man must be a blockhead who wanted more.

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I shall think you a great blockhead, Frank, if you bring the aunt without the niece."

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"Do you dare to suppose me so great a blockhead, as not to know what a man is talking of?- What do you deserve?"

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I mean to offer some kind of explanation, some kind of apology, for the past; to open my whole heart to you, and by convincing you, that though I have been always a blockhead, I have not been always a rascal, to obtain something like forgiveness from Ma-from your sister."

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You set me down as a blockhead, then?"

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60) found it impossible to decide whether the inventor of the anagram or the acrostic were the greater blockhead; and, in describing the latter, says, ''I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity, but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of the poem.''

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He's a conscientious, kindly old blockhead; but he's got money simply because he collects money, as a boy collects stamps.

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A stupid fellow; a blockhead.

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A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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), n. That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.

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[R.] ½The bookful blockhead.¸ Pope.

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Whate'er these bookÐlearned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.

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A blockhead; a dunce.

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He: Come to the bank where the boat is moor'd to the willow-tree low; Bertha, the baby, won't notice, Brian, the blockhead, won't know.

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She: Bertha is not such a baby, sir, as you seem to suppose; Brian, a blockhead he may be, more than you think for he knows.

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The blockhead abuses Me and the life I lead.

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Of course Ginger was very much excited; she flung up her head with flashing eyes and distended nostrils, declaring that men were both brutes and blockheads.

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"Who talks about blockheads?" said Merrylegs, who just came up from the old apple-tree, where he had been rubbing himself against the low branch.

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"Who talks about blockheads?

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We, too, are going to be proud and brag with these blockheads; and just as St. Paul brags against his madly raving saints, I will brag over these asses of mine!

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When mother showed me in the city, I wouldn't be snapped up like hot cakes; I'd be a blockhead no one would have.

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Oh, it infuriated me--how long ago it was!--to see you cringing to the Court blockheads, and running their errands, and smirkingly pocketing their money, and wheedling them into helping the new play to success.

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At the same time, if they do what I tell them, I shall look upon them as a lot of infernal blockheads.

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Speak, you blockhead, speak!"

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"I don't know what they put you in his form for, Blockhead."

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"Blockhead!

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Blockhead!

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Club-footed blockhead!"

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Mr. Gordon said I was a club-footed blockhead."

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Take your hands from your pockets, Roger; and from your head, you blockhead you.

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Blockhead!

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To your posts, you blockheads.

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Was there ever such a blockhead, that can't tell the difference between jest and earnest?

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Bear witness again, you blockhead you, and I'll turn you out of the room directly.

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'There is nothing wonderful in that,' said I; 'we are at the commencement of a philological age, every one studies languages; that is, every one who is fit for nothing else; philology being the last resource of dulness and ennui, I have got a little in advance of the throng, by mastering the Armenian alphabet; but I foresee the time when every unmarriageable miss, and desperate blockhead, will likewise have acquired the letters of Mesroub, and will know the term for bread, in Armenian, and perhaps that for wine.'

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"Crazy blockheads!" snapped the dwarf; "what's the good of calling anyone else?

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That the little blockhead should be allowed to do what she liked with her money and that he should not be able to forbid her!

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He could never speak quite patiently to the old blockhead.

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"Why, you blockhead, there is no such thing in rerum natura.

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Yet who can doubt that the very highest state to which a human spirit can attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest and most natural state, and that Drowne was more consistent with himself when he wrought the admirable figure of the mysterious lady, than when he perpetrated a whole progeny of blockheads?

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'Thou art but a dolt and a blockhead in Art,' he said.

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He got the 'wet' jest as good as I can, an', if he drawed the 'ye-ar' out a little, still any blockhead could a-told what he was sayin', an' in a voice pretty an' clear as a bell.

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"The blockhead!" she mentally exclaimed.

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'The Blockheads, or the Affrighted Officers,' a Farce.

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'He is very short with me sometimes, and then I feel that he is meditating, "This blockhead is my master!

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There is on earth no more pitiable person than "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."

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Begone, ye blockheads, Herselitus cries, And leave my labours to the learn'd and wise; By wit, by knowledge, studious to be read, I scorn the multitude, alive and dead.

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Here, Mr. Slurk laughed very heartily, and folding up the paper so as to get at a fresh column conveniently, said, that the blockhead really amused him.

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Ye blockhead, that's their livelihood."

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Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German--a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms--a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.

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With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit--and, worst of all, how paltry, UNLITERARY, commonplace it would all be.

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The blockheads will be forced at last to see the tragedy of it all!

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Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch [1] the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest.

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When miss delights in her spinnet, A fiddler may a fortune get; A blockhead, with melodious voice In boarding-schools can have his choice; And oft the dancing-master's art Climbs from the toe to touch the heart.

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Contents PREFACE THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP THE SIX SWANS THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES THE GOLDEN CRAB THE IRON STOVE THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD THE GLASS MOUNTAIN THE DEAD WIFE IN THE LAND OF SOULS THE WHITE DUCK THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS THE MAGIC RING THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER THE FLYING SHIP THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON THE STORY OF KING FROST THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO THE WITCH THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS PRINCE RING THE SWINEHERD HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THE TINDER-BOX THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT THUMBELINA THE NIGHTINGALE HERMOD AND HADVOR THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER BLOCKHEAD-HANS A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and to go shares in the housekeeping.

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BLOCKHEAD-HANS Far away in the country lay an old manor-house where lived an old squire who had two sons.

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All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead-Hans.'

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'Oh, oh!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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I'll go to!' cried Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.

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'Dear father!' cried Blockhead-Hans, 'I must have a horse too.

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'Well,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'

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Here I come!' shouted Blockhead-Hans, singing so that the echoes were roused far and near.

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'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead-Hans, 'here I am!

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'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'

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'Blockhead!' said they, 'that is an old wooden shoe without the top!

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'Of course I shall!' returned Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed and rode on a good way.

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here I am!' cried Blockhead-Hans; 'better and better-it is really famous!'

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'Oh,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'it is really too good!

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'Of course it is!' said Blockhead-Hans, 'and it is the best kind!

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But the brothers rode on so fast that dust and sparks flew all around, and they reached the gate of the town a good hour before Blockhead-Hans.

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Now Blockhead-Hans came in; he rode his goat right into the hall.

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'That's good!' replied Blockhead-Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'

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'Oh, rather!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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'I've got that in my pocket!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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By each window do you see there are standing three reporters and an old editor, and this old editor is the worst, for he doesn't understand anything!' but she only said this to tease Blockhead-Hans.

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are those the great people?' said Blockhead-Hans.

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Blockhead-Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters-and they are not to be believed for a moment.

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"Stop!" he shouted, "you blockhead, I don't want you to kill the man."

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), n. Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

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), n. A blockhead; a dolt.

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