The 3,274 occurrences of blockhead
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The fair Julia is just twenty--eyes, you dog--lips, you rascal--a shape, you blockhead, to bewitch an anchorite.
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"O, you blockhead!" screamed his mother,--she was a bit of a virago, Mrs. Trotter was,--"you've ben gettin' another lickin', I know."
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Remember in the first line to '_loud_ the winds whistle,' instead of 'round,' which that blockhead Ridge has inserted by mistake, and makes nonsense of the whole stanza.
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"I can assure you," said Geburon, "that I have often known similar things to come to pass, and have seen men who were deemed rustic blockheads deceive very shrewd people.
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"No, no, no, you dense blockheads!" uttered Cadet Midshipman Merriam.
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"I didn't tell you to walk your post, blockhead!" scowled Mr. Merriam.
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But even without Sturk's speaking one word, I've evidence which escaped _you_, conceited blockhead, and which, though the witness is as mad almost as yourself, will yet be enough to direct the hand of justice to the right man.
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'Well, Sir; and notwithstanding his declaration, you arrest me upon the monstrous assertion of a crazy clerk, you consummate blockhead!'
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Let me be persuaded that my neighbour Jenkins considers me a blockhead, and I shall never shine in conversation with him any more.
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If I were the greatest blockhead that ever came from it, or the greatest blemish that ever came to it, they could not easily show me more contempt than they do.
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Yes, and you meane, I shall complaine my loue To grauell'd Walkes, or to a stupid Groue, Now your companions; and that you the while (As you are cruell) will sit by and smile, To make me write to these, while Passers by, Sleightly looke in your louely face, where I See Beauties heauen, whilst silly blockheads, they Like laden Asses, plod vpon their way, 80 And wonder not, as you should point a Clowne Vp to the _Guards_, or _Ariadnes_ Crowne; Of Constellations, and his dulnesse tell.
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"Don't be a blockhead, Perkins, we have got to get her out now--at once--Perkins."
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"The blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world, but stout and honest to his country."
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"That may be; republicanism doesn't necessarily mean letting the blockheads rule!
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His work was done with such ease that he was not aware it was extraordinary in quality; and when Swanenburch sold several of his sketches at goodly prices and put the silver in the lad's hand, he asked who the blockheads were who had invested.
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"St. Nicholas in the Bell-Ringers" is comprehensible; but "St. Nicholas the Blockhead" is so called because in this quarter dwelt the imperial hatmakers, who prepared "blockheads" for shaping their wares.
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Yet this author was no blockhead.
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If you have met with a blockhead, he will be more angry than ever.
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I learned afterwards that he had so long borne the names of "dunce" and "blockhead" in the school he attended in his own village, that he supposed himself to be really such, and made up his mind that it was useless for him to try to be anything else: and I think when our teacher first called him up for examination he was inclined to be of the same opinion.
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Please to consider, that artifice and delusion are confined to cheats and impostors, and can never proceed from a person of such exalted rank, who is the head and patron of all the family of the deceased Nabob, my father,--and that to be deluded, being a proof of weakness and folly, can have no relation to me, except the inventor of this report considers me as void of understanding, and has represented me to the gentlemen as a blockhead and an idiot.
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"They must suspect me to be a great blockhead," he says, "if a man of my rank is to be deluded."
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I don't like to break off, any more than you wish me to stop: but my fate is Not to vent half a million such rhymes without blockheads exclaiming-- JAM SATIS.
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In brief, my dear friend, tho there are rules, and rules that are invariable, precise, and eternal for the dramatic art, rules which only the impotent, the ignorant, blockheads, and fools misunderstand, and from which only they wish to be freed, yet there is only one true method for the conception and parturition of a play--which is, to know quite exactly where you are going and to take the best road that leads there.
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He has, indeed, in our own time been denied enough even of the common intellectual culture of his day to save him from ridicule as a blockhead.
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"[2] It would be as foolish to take these witnesses too literally, as it is foolish to call Claverhouse a blockhead because he could not spell correctly.
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"That will do capitally; for if you say, '_Kateh saket_ Magnesia?' any blockhead will know that you mean 'How far to Magnesia?'
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"Away, blockhead, we have no occasion to rejoice; could you not discover the queen's anger through her unsuccessful attempts to disguise it?
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this blockhead has rous'd me from the prettiest entertainment in the world (_Aside_).
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In the whole series, the harshest word employed is 'blockhead,' bestowed on his steward for not taking care of his _own_ interests."
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the greatest blockhead, the most ignorant, miserable wretch, a person without either virtue or talents, has nothing to do but to order a clerk to strike a pen through such an account, and then to make a merit of it to you.
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"Get in, you infernal blockhead," he called.
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unmeaning farce unmeasured hostility unmellowed dawn unmelodious echoes unmerciful plundering unmingled consent unmistakably fabulous unmitigated gloom unmixed astonishment unmodified passion unmurmuring sea unnecessary platitudes unnumbered thousands unobtrusive deference unostentatious display unpalatable truth unparalleled atrocities unpardonable error unphilosophical dreamer unpleasant excrescence [excrescence = abnormal enlargement] unprecedented advance unprejudiced intelligence unpretentious character unprincipled violence unprofitable craft unpurchasable luxury unqualified submission unquenchable tenderness unquestionable genius unquestioning fate unreasonable pretense unreasoning distrust unredeemable forfeit unrefreshing sameness unrelaxing emphasis unrelenting spirit unremembered winter unremitting toil unrepining sadness unreproved admiration unrequited love unresentful disposition unreserved assent unresisted authority unresolved exceptions unresponsive gloom unresting speed unrestrained anger unrestricted ease unrivaled distinction unruffled concord unsatisfied yearning unscrupulous adventurer unseasonable apology unseemly mirth unselfish fidelity unsettled trait unshakable foundation unshrinking determination unslackened volubility [volubility = ready flow of speech; fluent] unsophisticated youth unsparing abuse unspeakable delight unspiritual tone unspoiled goodness unstinted praise unsullied virtue unsurpassed purity unswerving integrity untameable energy unthinkable hypothesis untiring energy untold calamity untoward circumstances [untoward = improper] untrammeled expression untrodden woodland untroubled repose untuneful phrase untutored mind unusual audacity unutterable sadness unvarnished feeling unwarranted limitation unwasting energies unwavering allegiance unwearied diligence unwelcome alliance unwieldy bulk unwilling homage unwittingly mingled unwonted kindness [unwonted = unusual] unworldly foolishness unworthy alliance unyielding nature uproarious laughter upstart pretensions useless fripperies [fripperies = pretentious, showy] utmost scorn V vacant stupidity vacillating obedience vacuous ease vagabondish spirit vagrant wandering vaguely discursive vain contemplation vainglorious show valid objection valuable acquisition valueless assertion vampire tongue vanished centuries vantage ground vapid generalities [vapid = lacking liveliness, interest; dull] variable temperament variegated career [variegated = varied] vast advantage veering purpose vehement panting veiled insolence velvety lawn venerable placidity venomous passion veracious journals [veracious = honest; truthful; accurate; precise] verbal audacities verbose manner verdant hope verifiable facts veritable triumph vernacular expression vernal charm [vernal = resembling spring; fresh; youthful] versatile grace vexatious circumstances vicarious virtue vigilant sensibility vigorous invective [invective = abusive language] vile desecrater villainous inconsistency 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ably and vigorously abrupt and perilous absolute and eternal absorbed and occupied abstinence and self-denial abstract and metaphysical absurd and impertinent abundant and sustained abuse and slander accentual and rhythmic accidental and temporary accomplished and popular accurate and illuminating achievement and character acquisition and possession active and aggressive actual and immediate acute and painful admirable and accomplished adorned and amplified adroitness and judgment adventurous and prodigal advice and assistance affable and courteous affectation and coquetry affectionate and warm-hearted affluent and exuberant affright and abhorrence agencies and influences ages and generations aggrandizement and plunder agreeable and ingenuous aggressive and sullen aghast and incredulous agility and briskness agitate and control agony and despair aids and auxiliaries aim and purpose airy and frivolous alarm and uneasiness alert and unsparing all and sundry allegiance and fidelity alone 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unreasonable career and occupation cares and anxieties carping and ungenerous casual and transient causes and circumstances cautious and reticent celebrated and praised celerity and violence [celerity = swiftness of action] ceremony and splendor certain and verifiable chafe and exasperate chagrin and despondency chance and opportunity change and variety chaos and confusion character and temperament characteristic and complete charges and insinuations charm and perfection chaste and refined cheap and convenient checked and thwarted cheerfulness and gaiety cherish and guard chief and paramount chilled and stiffened choleric and sanguine [choleric = easily angered; bad-tempered] [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic] churlishness and violence [churlish = boorish or vulgar] citation and allusion civility and communicativeness civilized and cultured clamorous and wild claptrap and platitude clarity and straightforwardness classical and perspicuous [perspicuous = easy to understand] 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shapeless crushed and bewildered cultured and refined cumbrous and diffuse [cumbrous = cumbersome] cunning and cruelty curious and inexpressible curved and channeled customs and manners cynical and contemptuous D dangers and pitfalls daring and resolute dark and starless dart and quiver dashing and careless dates and details dazzled and confounded debased and demoralized debilitating and futile decencies and restraints deception and cruelty decided and definite declamation and delivery decline and decay deductions and inferences deep and subtle deface and injure defame and tarnish deference and concession defiant and antagonistic deficient and unskilled definite and memorable deft and offensive degraded and dishonored deliberate and effective delicate and lambent [lambent = effortlessly brilliant] delight and consolation delusion and trickery demands and expectations demeanor and conduct demoralizing and enfeebling denial and defense dense and luminous denunciations and censures deplorable and baneful depravity and frivolity depressing and discouraging depth and richness derision and skepticism described and classified desecration and decay designs and activities desires and motives desolation and wretchedness despatch and resolution desperation and defiance despise and satirize despoiled and destroyed despondency and melancholy despotism and coercion destitution and misery desultory and slipshod [desultory = haphazardly; random] detached and isolated determined and courageous detestable and intolerable development and culture devoted and unwavering dictatorial and insolent diction and pronunciation differences and disputes difficult and arduous diffidence and constraint diffuseness and warmth dignified and austere digressive and wanton dilatory and hesitating [dilatory = postpone or delay] diligent and sedulous [sedulous = persevering ] dim and distant din and traffic directed and controlled disagreeable and painful disappointed and abashed disapprobation and condemnation [approbation = warm approval; praise] disapproval and apprehension discipline and development discomfiture and degradation disconcerted and dismayed discontent and disquiet discords and differences discouraging and distressing discovery and invention discretion and moderation disdain and mockery disfigured and shapeless disgrace and ruin disgust and dismay dishonor and ruin disillusioned and ironical disintegration and decay disinterested and gracious disjointed and voluble [voluble = fluent] dislike and disdain dislocation and chaos dismay and apprehension dispirit and discourage disposition and power disquietude and uneasiness dissolute and hateful dissolve and disappear distant and diverse distended and distorted distinctive and appropriate distinguishing and differentiating distress and humiliation distrust and aversion disturbed and anxious diverging and contracting docile and obedient dogma and ritual dominant and permanent dormant and subdued doubt and trepidation 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foremost fancies and sentiments fanciful and chimerical [chimerical = highly improbable] fantastic and meretricious [meretricious = plausible but false] fascination and awe fashion and frivolity fastidious and exacting fatigued and careworn faults and delusions favors and kindnesses fear and bewilderment feasible and practical feebleness and folly feeling and passion felicitous and exquisite ferocious and mercenary fertility and vigor fervor and simplicity feverishly and furiously fickle and uncertain fidelity and zeal fierce and menacing fiery and controversial final and irreversible finish and completeness firm and decisive first and foremost fitful and capricious fitting and appropriate fixity and finality flaming and mendacious [mendacious = lying; untruthful] flare and flicker flatness and insipidity flattery and toadyism flexible and spontaneous flickering and ambiguous flighty and impetuous flippant and contemptuous florid and healthy [florid = ornate; flowery] flotsam and jetsam flow and fullness flowery and figurative fluctuating and transitory fluency and flippancy fluttering and restless focus and concentrate fogs and complications foibles and follies foiled and defeated folly and indecorum fools and underlings force and effectiveness formal and cold formidable and profound formlessness and exaggeration fortitude and perseverance foul and ominous fragile and pale fragments and morsels fragrance and beauty frailties and absurdities frank and genial free and independent frequent and poignant freshness and fragrance fretful and timorous friend and benefactor frigid and pompous frivolous and empty froth and effervescence frustrated and confounded fuddled and contradictory full and sonorous fumbling and blundering fuming and bustling fun and satire function and aim fundamental and necessary furrowed and ragged furtive and illusive fury and madness fussing and fuming futile and untrustworthy G gaiety and grace gallant and proud galling and humiliating 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greatness and stability greed and covetousness grief and remorse grim and sullen grimaces and gesticulations grope and fumble grossness and brutality grotesque and monstrous grouped and combined growth and development guesses and fancies guidance and inspiration gush and hysteria gusto and effect H habits and humors habitual and intuitive hackneyed and tawdry haggard and pale handsome and amiable haphazard and dangerous happiness and pleasantness harass and pursue hard and unsparing hardships and indignities harmony and beauty harsh and austere hasty and unwarranted hateful and loathsome haughtiness and arrogance hauteur and disdain [hauteur = arrogance] hazard and peril hazy and indefinite headstrong and foolish healthy and vigorous hearth and shrine heartless and hypocritical heat and impatience heaviness and weariness hecklings and interruptions hectic and pitiful heretics and schismatics heritage and privilege heroism and wisdom hesitation and irresolution hideous and grotesque high and conscientious hilarity and mirth hints and suggestions history and tradition hither and thither hoarse and rumbling hobbies and eccentricities hollowness and unreality holy and prayerful homeliness and simplicity honestly and confessedly honors and emoluments [emoluments = compensation] hooted and mobbed hopes and prospects horror and ghastliness hospitality and magnificence hubbub and confusion huge and unwieldy humane and sympathetic humility and devoutness humors and singularities hurry and bustle hushed and still husks and phantoms hypocrisy and impudence I ideas and achievements idle and presumptuous ignoble and shabby ignominy and misfortune ignorance and superstition illiterate and unfit ill-tempered and unjust illuminative and suggestive illustrative and typical images and impressions imagination and memory imbitter and exasperate imitators and disciples immature and unpromising immediate and instantaneous immensity and intricacy imminent and terrible immovable and 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integral and indestructible integrity and honor intelligence and insight intense and overpowering intentness and interest interesting and engrossing intimate and familiar intolerant and bumptious [bumptious = loudly assertive; pushy] intractable and untameable intricate and endless intrusive and unmannerly intuitive and axiomatic invasion and aggression invective and innuendo [invective = abusive language] investigation and research invidious and painful [invidious = rousing ill will, animosity] inviolate and unscathed invisible and silent involuntary and automatic irksome and distasteful irrational and excessive irregular and intermittent irreligious and immoral irremediable and eternal irrepressible and insistent irreverence and ingratitude irritable and churlish [churlish = boorish or vulgar] isolated and detached J jabber and chatter jagged and multifarious jargon and absurdity jaundiced and jealous jeer and scoff jeopardy and instability jests and sarcasms jocular and vivacious jostle and stumble joy and felicity jubilant and boastful judgment and discretion judicious and acute juggled and manipulated jumble and confuse juncture and circumstance jurisdiction and authority justice and virtue juvenile and budding K keen and pertinacious [pertinacious = stubbornly persistent] kind and forbearing kindle and intensify kindred and analogous kingly and autocratic knavish and tyrannical knowledge and conviction known and recognized L labor and drudgery lame and impotent lamentable and depressing languid and indifferent large and opulent lassitude and languor [languor = dreamy, lazy mood] latent and lifeless latitude and scope laudable and deserving laughable and grotesque lavish and wasteful lawlessness and violence laxity and forbearance laziness and profligacy leafage and fruitage learning and austerity legends and traditions legitimate and logical leisure and tranquillity lengthy and diffuse lenient and sympathetic lethargy and sloth levity and gaiety liberal and ample liberty and freedom license and laxity likely and plausible limited and abbreviated listless and inert literal and exact literary and artistic lithe and sinewy lively and poignant loathsome and abject lofty and sonorous [sonorous = producing a full, rich sound; impressive speech] logical and consistent loquacity and exuberance [loquacity = very talkative.]
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A disciple one day remarking that to lay down a pencil and take up a mallet, was a strange method of repose, he replied, "Blockhead!
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Charlotte Brontë perhaps did not know that an elegant girl of rank does not in a friend's house address her host's footman before his guests in these words--"Cease that chatter, blockhead!
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_Consistency_ being much prized, though often the part of a blockhead, _inconsistency_ implies not merely the absence of the supposed virtue, but a positive vice: _Beauty_ being attractive and _ugliness_ the reverse, if we invent a word for that which is neither, 'plainness,' it at once becomes tinged with the ugly.
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He filled his cutty with purser-loaned tobacco, and roundly damned himself as a blockhead.
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"What a blockhead!" said Rodolphe to the two young fellows.
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A publick Adultery, replied _Kelirieu_, with a seeming Amazement, what Blockhead has put such Fancies into your Head.
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Of this changed aspect of things he complained to a friend: but his real sorrows were mixed with those of the fancy:--he told Mrs. Dunlop with what pangs of heart he was compelled to take shelter in a corner, lest the rattling equipage of some gaping blockhead should mangle him in the mire.
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So dear is fame to the rhyming tribe, that even he, an obscure, nameless Bard, shrinks aghast at the thought of being branded as--an impertinent blockhead, obtruding his nonsense on the world; and, because he can make a shift to jingle a few doggerel Scotch rhymes together, looking upon himself as a poet of no small consequence, forsooth!
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My lan ahin's[9] a weel gaun fillie, That aft has borne me hame frae Killie,[10] An' your auld burro' mony a time, In days when riding was nae crime-- But ance, whan in my wooing pride, I like a blockhead boost to ride, The wilfu' creature sae I pat to, (L--d pardon a' my sins an' that too!)
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I started, mutt'ring, blockhead!
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His heart by causeless wanton malice wrung, By blockheads' daring into madness stung; His well-won bays, than life itself more dear, By miscreants torn, who ne'er one sprig must wear: Foil'd, bleeding, tortur'd, in the unequal strife, The hapless poet flounders on through life; Till, fled each hope that once his bosom fir'd, And fled each muse that glorious once inspir'd, Low sunk in squalid, unprotected age, Dead, even resentment, for his injur'd page, He heeds or feels no more the ruthless critic's rage!
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When I must skulk into a corner, lest the rattling equipage of some gaping blockhead should mangle me in the mire, I am tempted to exclaim--"What merits has he had, or what demerit have I had, in some state of pre-existence, that he is ushered into this state of being with the sceptre of rule, and the key of riches in his puny fist, and I am kicked into the world, the sport of folly, or the victim of pride?"
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Human existence in the most favourable situations does not abound with pleasures, and has its inconveniences and ills; capricious foolish man mistakes these inconveniences and ills as if they were the peculiar property of his particular situation; and hence that eternal fickleness, that love of change, which has ruined, and daily does ruin many a fine fellow, as well as many a blockhead, and is almost, without exception, a constant source of disappointment and misery.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, and such is my friend Clarke, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science, in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel: a fellow whom in fact it savours of impiety to attempt making a scholar of, as he has been marked a blockhead in the book of fate, at the almighty fiat of his Creator.
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How else can you account for it, that born blockheads, by mere dint of _handling_ books, grow so wise that even they themselves are equally convinced of and surprised at their own parts?
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_Coof_, a blockhead, a ninny.
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_Staumrel_, a blockhead, half-witted.
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"You blockhead!" roared Roger.
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I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads, who would like to be useful to a great and good cause but don't know how.
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When MacRae had finished his story and the incapable blockhead behind the desk sat there regarding the two of us as though he considered that we had been the victims of a rank hallucination, Lessard slammed the door shut behind him and strode into the room.
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LOGOMACOS: What a blockhead!
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LOGOMACOS: These blockheads are troublesome.
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"Ah, you speak as you wish," said Gerard, "but I do not believe that women are so true as to always remain faithful to their vows; and those who believe in them are blockheads.
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The poor blockhead said that he was not angry with her, because she knew nothing about it, but that he would certainly punish her women.
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They talked also of other matters, and some of their phrases had a bawdy meaning; and the worthy shepherd, who was neither a fool nor a blockhead, swore to them that he was prepared to undertake to do the job eight or nine times in one night.
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It may appear, because I have used from time to time the only possible phrases for the case, that I mean the Victorian Englishman to appear as a blockhead, which means an unconscious buffoon.
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"I should have been a blockhead if I had not."
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The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better."
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"What a blockhead you are," said the old man, "but go on, go on!"
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It was strictly forbidden to leave Henrietta alone for an instant, and Mr. Demetrius gave special orders that her brother Koloman was not to be allowed to approach within six paces of her bed because he was sure to bring cold air into the room, or convey to her surreptitiously something which she ought not to have and behave like a blockhead generally.
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"Come, come, wretched man!" cried Hátszegi at last losing all patience, "you don't suppose that your blockhead of a bandit is lying in wait for me, do you?
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"Thou blockhead!
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The nobleman said to the priest-- "What folly it was of you to vex and excite this blockhead by pronouncing him dead!
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[220] Or if, too classic for his vulgar brain, He feared his neck to venture such a nag on, And he must needs mount nearer to the moon, Could not the blockhead ask for a balloon?
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If David, when his toils were ended, Had heard these blockheads sing before him To us, his psalms had ne'er descended, In furious mood, he would have tore 'em.' p. 126, 127.
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Dr Johnson knew that the blockhead seeks the shelter of patriotism with almost worse result to the body politic than the scoundrel.
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There were so many other ways in which the thing might have been done, and better done; and the following incident, which occurred during the war, serves to show that this policy of the _blockhouse_ might equally well have been called the policy of the _blockhead_.
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Index Aard, Commandant Frans van-- Election as Commandant of Kroonstad, 115 Killed in engagement between Kroonstad and Lindley, 157 Abraham's Kraal--Bombardment by British, Boer Flight, 52 _Achterlaaiers_, 3 Active Service--Calling up of Orange Free State Burghers, 4 Commando Law as to Equipment, Provisions, etc., 3 Notification to Orange Free State Burghers to hold themselves in readiness, 3 Alberts, Capt.--Tribute to, 243 Albrecht, Major--Command of Boer Reinforcements at Koedoesberg, 28 Ammunition--Amount possessed by Boers in 1902, 408 Capture of Ammunition by the Boers, 173 Dewetsdorp, 178 Doornspruit, Capture of Train near, 132 Roodewal--Amount captured, 103 Digging up, 191, 193 Disposal of, 104, 106 Tweefontein, 282 De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Ammunition hidden in Cave, 298 Amnesty--General Amnesty for Boer Sympathisers in Cape Colony and Natal, proposed, 322 Annexation of the South African Republic--Battles fought after the alleged Annexation, 229 Peace Negotiations at Pretoria, References to the Annexation, 367 Armistice to admit of attendance of Officers at the Vereeniging Meeting (May, 1902), 315 Misunderstanding on the part of the British Columns, 317 Arms, Surrender of, _see_ titles Banishment and Surrender Assistant-Commander-in-Chief Gen. de Wet obtaining Post from Government, 95 Assistant-Commander-in-Chief of the Orange Free State-- Prinsloo, Mr. Marthinus, Illegal Election of, 126 Steenekamp, Commandant, Nomination of, 144 Badenhorst, Siege of, by Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 77, 78 Abandonment of Siege, 79 Badenhorst, Veldtcornet, 94 Vice-Commander-in-Chief in Districts of Boshof, etc., Appointment, 159 Baggage Animals of British Troops--Exhaustion of, 148 Use of, 279 Baker's, Col., Column--Commander-in-Chief de Wet lying in wait with a view to Reprisals, 271 Banishment Proclamation of Aug. 7, 1901 (Lord Kitchener's Proclamation), 247-250 Battles fought subsequent to, 252 Burghers, Effect on, 252 Kitchener's, Lord, Letter to Commander-in-Chief de Wet enclosing copy of Proclamation, 247 De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Reply, 248 Officers, Effect on, 250 President and Commander-in-Chief of Transvaal and Orange Free State--Replies, 250, 251, 257, 258 Steyn's, President, Letter to Lord Kitchener, 251-259 Terms of, 247-251 Bank Notes of the South African Republic--Peace Terms, Arrangements for honouring Notes, 380 Prisoners of War, Opportunity of sending in Notes for Payment, 386 Barbed Wire Fences, _see_ Wire Fences Barton, Gen., Attack on at Frederiksstad by Commander-in-Chief de Wet and Gen. Liebenberg, 164-167 Beijers, Gen.--Continuance of the War, Spirit of the Nation an obstacle--Speech at Vereeniging Conference, 410 Waterberg District, Situation in--Report to the Vereeniging Conference, 339 Bergh, Capt.--Attacks on Boer Forces with bands of Kaffirs, 271 Bester, Commandant A.J.--Continuance of the War, Argument in favour of at the Vereeniging Conference, 421 Bester Station, Skirmish at, 10 Bethlehem--Commandants of Boer Forces, Appointments, 227, 228 Defence of--British Reinforcements, Arrival of, 121, 122 Dispositions of Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 120, 121 _Voetgangers_ on Wolhuterskop, Bravery of, 121, 122 Engagement near, 194, 195 Fall of, 122 Bethlehem Commando--Fidelity of Burghers, 94, _note_ Bezuidenhoutspas--Occupation by Vrede Commando, 7, 8 Biddulphsberg Engagement--English wounded burnt by veldt fire, 84 "Big Constable"--Transvaalers mistaking President Steyn for Police Agent, 86, 87 Birkenstock, Mr.--Continuance of the War, Terms of Surrender, etc., 399 Situation in South Africa on May 15, 1902--Report to the Vereeniging Conference, 343 Blauwbank, Fight at, 30 British Camp abandoned--Booty taken by Boers, 33, 34 British Convoy, Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Attack on, 32, 33 Blijdschap--Arrival of Laager of Women, 268 De Lange sentenced to death for High Treason at, 268, _note_ Massing of Commandos at, 268 _Blikkiescost_, 4 Blockhouse System--"Blockhead" System, alleged, 260 Boer Success in breaking through Blockhouses, 260, 261 Bothaville, Boers breaking through Blockhouse Line, 299 British loss of faith in Blockhouses, 291, 292 Cost of erection and maintenance, 262 Description of, 262 Districts surrounded by the British, 261 Failure of, alleged, 261 Lindley-Kroonstad Line, Boers breaking through, 287 Palmietfontein, Boers breaking through Line near, 289, 290 Prolongation of the War by, alleged, 263, 264 Small number of Captures effected, 260, 261 Springhaansnek--Commander-in-Chief de Wet breaking through the Line of Blockhouses on the march to the South, 173 Thaba'Nchu and Sanna's Post, Forts between--Capture by Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 201, 202 Trenches dug by British near Blockhouse Lines, etc., 288, 294, 295 Bloemfontein--Capture by British, 55 Defence of--Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Arrangements, 54 Water Works--Occupation by General Broadwood, 61 "Boer Biscuits," 3 Boer Forces-- Burghers who had returned home after fall of Bloemfontein, Re-call to the front, 71 Commandos left with Commander-in-Chief de Wet after fall of Bloemfontein, _note_ 57 Confusion among Burghers at Holspruits, 294, 295 Discipline, _see_ that title Disposition of Forces after fall of Bethlehem, 124 Harrismith Commando, Refusal to part with Waggons--Return home, 161, 163 Medical Certificates, Abuse of, _note_ 59 Mobility, _see_ that title Numbers at Outset of War, 408, 414, 415, 491 Numbers at the Termination of the War, 322, 338, 339, 347, 348, 359, 360, 361, 362 Orange Free State Commandos-- Commander-in-Chief, Election of, 6, 7 Harrismith, Concentration at, 4, 6-7 Heilbron Commando, _see_ that title Number of Burghers ready to fight after fall of Pretoria, 94 Panic after Paardeberg, 48, 49, 51, 52, _note_ 57 Permission given to Burghers by Commander-in-Chief de Wet to return home, 56, _note_ 57--Gen. Joubert's Protest, 57 Reduction in numbers due to Paardeberg Surrender, etc., 89, 90 Roberts', Lord, Surrender Proclamation--Effect on Numbers rejoining Commandos, 60 Non-observance of Terms, Burghers returning to Commandos, 80 Separation of Free Staters and Transvaalers after fall of Kroonstad, Reasons for, 89, 90 Boesmanskop Skirmish, 80 Boshof, Vrow--Gift of Clothes to Burghers who had swum the Orange River, 221, 222 Bosman, Landdrost--Continuance of the War, Terms of Surrender, etc., 404, 405, 406 Situation in South Africa on 15th May, 1902--Report to the Vereeniging Conference, 361, 362 Botha--Capture at Honingkopjes, Subsequent Escape and Death, 110 Botha, Commandant-General-- Continuance of the War, Arguments against--Terms of Surrender, etc., 414, 415 Estcourt Skirmishes--Capture of Armoured Train, etc., 19 Fortitude after Fall of Pretoria, 93 Independence of the South African Republic and Orange Free State--Vereeniging Conference Delegates' power to decide as to Independence, 411 Junction with Commander-in-Chief de Wet at Rhenosterriviersbrug, 88, 89 Middelburg Peace Proposals, _see_ that title Mission to Europe on behalf of Relief Fund Committee, 428 Peace Negotiations--Member of Commission of National Representatives at the Pretoria Conference, 320, 365-396 Situation in South Africa on 15th May, 1902--Report to the Vereeniging Conference, 337, 338, 354-358 Botha, General Philip-- Dewetsdorp Defences, Occupation of, 175, 176 Engagement with General Knox's Forces, 194, 195 Kroonstad War Council, Presence at, 58 Reinforcements sent to Commander-in-Chief de Wet before Paardeberg, Command of, 36, 37 Stinkfontein--Failure to recapture Position, 45 Storming of, 40 Tabaksberg, Engagement at, 83 Botha, Mr. Jan--Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Tribute to, 150, 151 Bothaville--Boers breaking through Blockhouse Line, 299 Surprise Attack by the British on Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Forces--Boer Panic, 168-170 Losses of the Boers, 170-171 _Bout Span_, 5 Boys--Presence with Commandos, 287, 289, 290 Children killed and wounded, 289, 290, 295, 296 Brabant's, General, Successes, 50 Brabant's Horse--Attack on Commandant Kritzinger and Captain Scheepers, 185, 186 De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Opinion of, 75, 76 Brand, President--Assistance rendered to South African Republic in War of 1877-1881, 422, 423 Brandfort, Boer Forces at--Hotels closed by Commander-in-Chief, 60 _Brandwachten_, 22 Breijtenbach, Veldtcornet B.H.--Continuance of the War, Impossibility of Carrying on the Struggle, 403, 404 British Forces--Artillery, Commander-in-Chief de Wet's Tribute to, 25 March from Bethlehem to Reitz, under guidance of Free Staater, 263, 264 Sixty Thousand Men, Cordon of, 291, 292, 293, 294 Broadwood, General--Occupation of Thaba'Nchu, 65, 66 Retreat towards Thaba'Nchu before General Olivier, 62 Broodspioen, 207, 208 Bruwer, Commandant--Appointment to Command of Bethlehem District, 227, 228 Buller, Sir Redvers--Drakensberg Frontier, Crossing of, 93 Landing at Cape Town, 21 Relief of Ladysmith, 50 Strength of Positions operated against by Sir Redvers Buller, 21 Bulwana Hill--Boers surprised by British, 21 Burger, Vice-President--Continuance of the War, Terms of Surrender, etc., 398, 421, 422, 424, 425 Meeting with Orange Free State Government, Letter to President Steyn, 301, 302 Situation in South Africa on 15th May, 1902--Address at the Vereeniging Conference, 336, 337, 351-354 Steyn, President, Resignation of--Announcement at Vereeniging Conference, 411 Cape Colony-- De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Attempted Inroad--March towards Cape Colony-- Blockhouses--Commander-in-Chief de Wet breaking through the Line at Springhaansnek, 173, 187, 188, 189 Dewetsdorp-- Defences, British neglecting to hold, 175, 176 Storming of, 175-179 Forces under Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 172 "Good Hope" Farm, Engagement near, 181 Knox's, Gen., Arrival with British Reinforcements, 181 Gun and Amount of Ammunition taken, 173 Karmel, March towards, 181, 182 Knox's, Gen., Pursuit of Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190 Orange and Caledon Rivers in flood--Commander-in-Chief de Wet "cornered," 182, 183 Prinsloo's, Commandant Michal, Commando--Appearance in the nick of time, 187, 188 Retreat across Orange River, 184, 185 De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Expedition into-- Capture of Farm held by British Troops, 207, 208 Courage and Endurance of Burghers, 212 Diminution in number of Boer Forces, 206, 207 Engagements with British Troops, 206, 207, 212 Escape of Boer Forces in the darkness, 216, 219, 220 Fodder, Lack of, 206, 207 Knox's, Gen., Movements, 201, 202, 203 Miraculous Nature of Boer Achievements, 223, 224 Moddervlei, Passage of--Boer Loss of Ammunition and Flour Waggons, 208, 209, 210, 212 Officers serving with Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 195, 196 Position of Boer Forces after crossing Orange River, 205, 206 Retreat across Orange River, Difficulties of, etc., 217-224 Strategy employed to mislead Gen. Knox, 202, 203, 204 General Rising of Burghers, Impossibility of--Reports of Delegates at the Vereeniging Conference, 340, 341, 342, 355, 360, 361, 405, 406 Position of affairs at the beginning of 1901--Colonial Burghers' Sympathy with Boer Cause, 195, 196 Sheep-farming, success of in North-Western Districts, 211 Small Commandos sent to Cape Colony, Policy of, 234 Cape Mounted Rifles, Commander-in-Chief de Wet's opinion of, 77, 78 Cartwright, Mr., Editor of _South African News_--Punishment for publication of "not to take prisoners" Anecdote concerning Lord Kitchener, 184, 185 Casualties, _see_ Losses in Killed and Wounded, etc., on either side Cattle--Blockhouse Line between Lindley and Kroonstad, Boer Cattle breaking through, 288 Capture of Boer Cattle on "Majuba Day," 296, 297 Destruction by the British, 192, 232 Supply available on May 15, 1902--Report of Vereeniging Delegates, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 343, 344, 345, 346, 351, 352 Causes of the War--British Government Interference with the inner policy of the South African Republic, 252, 253 Declaration of War by the South African Republics as the Cause--President Steyn's Contradiction, 251, 252 Extermination of the Republics already determined on by England, alleged, 254, 255 Franchise Law--British Government Demands, 252, 253, 254 Goldfields the main object, alleged, 350, 351 Jameson Raid as a Cause, alleged, 251, 252, 253 Memorials to H.M. Government concerning alleged Grievances--President Steyn's efforts to keep the Peace, 252, 253, 254 Orange Free State joining issues with the Transvaal, 254, 255 Steyn's, President, Letter to Lord Kitchener, 250-259 Troops landed by the British Government prior to outbreak of War, 253, 254 Ultimatum of Boers, Lord Salisbury's Assertion, 53, 54 Ceylon--Boer Prisoners taken with Gen. Prinsloo sent to Ceylon, 156 Chamberlain, Mr. J.--Boer Ultimatum--Telegrams to Sir A. Milner, 329 Jameson Raid--Defence of Mr. Rhodes, President Steyn on, 251, 252 Cilliers, Gen.
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The character of Ralph Roister Doister, 'a vain-glorious, cowardly blockhead', as the list of dramatis personae has it, is thoroughly well done: his heavy love-sighs, his confident elation, his distrust, his gullibility, his ups and downs and contradictions, are all in the best comic vein.
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it was ze blockheads, was it?" exclaimed the Frenchman.
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"Hardly the blockheads," replied the consul, laughing at the blunder of the foreigner.
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; faith!,mild oath; exclamation of surprise fell,very; potent; keen; harsh; sharp,intensifies; also turf; lot; destiny feow,few, ferm,farm, fess,fetch; bring, fest,fast, fin,find,also feel fin',find,also feel fin'in',finding; feeling, firs,first, fit,foot; base,also fit; capable; able fit-haud,foothold, fiver,fever, flamin',flaming, flang,kicked; threw, flannin,flannel, flauchterin',fluttering, flaw,flew, flee,fly; flee,also fly (the insect) fleechin',wheedling; flattering; fawning, fleein',flying; fleeing, fleg,blow; kick; stroke,also scare; frighten fleggin',blowing; kicking; stroking,also scaring; frightening fleyt,terrified; frightened, fling,kick; throw, fling't,kick it; throw it, flit,shift; remove; depart, floatin',floating, flooer,flower, flooers,flowers, floories,little flowers,diminutive flure,floor, flutterin',fluttering, followin',following, forbears,ancestors; forefathers, forby,as well; as well as; besides,also over and above forbye,as well; as well as; besides,also over and above forenichts,fore-nights; early evenings,also late afternoons foreordeen't,foreordained, foret,forward, forfochten,worn out; exhausted, forgettin',forgetting, forgie,forgive, for's,for his, for't,for it, fortnicht,fortnight; two weeks, fother,fodder; provision, foughten,fought, foul-fa',devil take; evil befall, foul-mou'd,foul-mouthed, fourt,fourth, fower,four, fowk,folk, fowks,folks, fra,from, frae,from, frae't,from it, free,frank; outspoken; genial; familiar, freely,quite; very; thoroughly, frein',friend, frichtit,frightened; scared away, frien',friend, frien's,friends, fu',full; very; much, fule,fool, fules,fools, fumblin',fumbling, fun',found, fundation,foundation, fund't,founded, furth,forth, fushionless,pithless; tasteless; feeble, fusionless,pithless; tasteless; feeble, futteret,weasel,term of contempt fykes,trifles; troubles; cares; whims, gad,iron bar, gae,gave,also go ga'e,gave, gaed,went, gaein,going, gaein',going, gaeins,goings, gairden,garden, gait,way; fashion,also route; street gaither,gather, gaits,ways,also routes; streets gane,gone, gane hame,gone home,also passed away; died gang,go; goes; depart; walk, gang yer wa's,go on, gangs,goes; walks, gar,cause; make; compel, garred,made; caused; compelled, garrin',making; causing; compelling, gars,makes; causes; compels, gart,made; caused; compelled, gaun,going, gear,possessions; money; property,also livestock geid,gave, gentlefowk,gentlefolk; gentry, gerss,grass, gether,gather, gethered,gathered, getna,do not get, gettin',getting, gey,fairly; considerably,also considerable gey and,somewhat; rather, ghaist,ghost; soul; spirit, ghaistly,ghostly, gie,give, gie a lift,give a helping hand, gied,gave, giein,giving, giein',giving, gien,if; as if; then; whether,also given gi'en,given, gien't,if it,also given it gies,gives, gie's,gives; give us; give his, gie't,give it, gif,if; whether, gimp,slender; neat, gin,if; as if; then; whether, gin't,if it, girnel,granary; meal-chest, girnel-kist,meal-chest, girnell,granary; meal-chest, girnin',grimacing; snarling, girns,grimaces; snarls; twists the features, girrl,girl, girse,grass, glaid,glad, glaidle,gladly, glaidness,gladness, glaiss,glass, gleanins,gleanings, gleg,quick; lively; smart; quick-witted, gleg ee,quick or sharp eye (to notice things), gleg-eed,quick-eyed; sharp eyed, gleg-ee'd,quick-eyed; sharp eyed, glimmerin',glimmering, glimmert,glimmered, glimp,glimpse; glance,also the least degree glimp',glimpse; glance,also the least degree glinted,twinkled; glittered, glintin',twinkling; glittering, gloamin,twilight; dusk, gloamin',twilight; dusk, glorifeed,glorified, glowered,stared; gazed; scowled, glowerin',staring; gazing; scowling, glowert,stared; gazed; scowled, God-fearin',God-fearing, gomeril,fool; blockhead, goo,taste; odour; smell, goody,old woman,also child's name for a sweet goon,gown, gowd,gold, gowden,golden, gowk,cuckoo; fool; blockhead, grainie,little particle; little bit,diminutive grainy,little particle; little bit, graip,three-pronged fork,used in farming graivitation,gravitation, gran',grand; capital; first-rate, gran'-dochter,grand-daughter, grandur,grandeur, gran'mither,grandmother, grat,cried; wept, gravestanes,gravestones; tombstones; headstones, greet,cry; weep, greetin,crying; weeping, greetin',crying; weeping, greit,cry; weep, greitin,crying; weeping, greitin',crying; weeping, grin',grind, grip,grasp; understand,also hold grips,grasps; understands,seizures; colic grit,great; big, grosert,gooseberry, growin,growing, growin',growing, growlin',growling, grue,feeling of horror; tremor,also tremble grummle,grumble, grun',ground, gruntit,grunted,also grumbled; complained grutten,cried; wept, guairdian,guardian, guddle,mangle, guddlet,mangled, gude,good,also God gude wife,mistress of the house; wife,also farmer's wife gudewife,mistress of the house; wife,also farmer's wife gueed,good,also God guid,good,also God guide,treat; handle; look after; manage; keep, guidit,treated; handled; managed, guidman,master; husband; head of household,also farmer guidwife,mistress of the house; wife,also farmer's wife guiss,guess, guissin',guessing, gumption,common-sense; shrewdness, gurglin',gurgling, gutter-partans,gutter crab, ha',have,also hall; house hadna,had not, hae,have; has,also here; understand haein,having, haein',having, haeing,having, haena,have not; do not have, haena',have not; do not have, hae't,have it, haill,whole, hained,saved; hoard; shield, hairm,harm, Hairries,Harrys, hairst,harvest, hairst-play,school holidays during harvest, Haith!,Faith!,exclamation of surprise half-a-croon,half-crown; half a crown,=2 shillings and 6 pence half-gaits,half-way, half-hoor,half-hour, hame,home, han',hand, handit,handed, han'fu',handful, hangin',hanging, hangt,hanged, han'le,handle, han's,hands, hantel,much; large quantity; far, hantle,much; large quantity; far, happent,happened, happin',hopping, h'ard,heard, hardent,hardened, hard-hertit,hard-hearted, hards,what of boiled food,adheres to the pot hard-workin',hard-working, harlin',rough-casting a wall,with a mixture of mortar and gravel hasna,does not have; has not; hasn't, haud,hold; keep, hauden,held; kept, haudin',holding; keeping, hauds,holds; keeps, hause,neck; throat, haven,heaven, haverin',talking incoherently; babbling, havers,nonsense; foolish talk; babble, haythen,heathen, he that will to Coupar maun to Coupar,a wilful man must have his way, heap,very much,also heap hearin',hearing, heark,listen, hearken,hearken; hear; listen, hearkened,hearkened; heard; listened, hearkenin',hearkening; listening, hearkent,hearkened; heard; listened, hearthstane,hearthstone, Hech!,Oh!
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Mere man has always treated me with exemplary fairness, and I certainly have never maintained that the blockhead majority is entirely composed of men; neither have I ever insinuated that it is man that makes all the misery.
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of blockheads' flattery; Whose praise defames; as if a fool should mean, By spitting on your face, to make it clean.
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But some, untaught, o'erhear the whisp'ring rill, In spite of sacred leisure, blockheads still; Nor shoots up folly to a nobler bloom In her own native soil, the drawing-room.
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Is't not enough the blockhead scarce can read, But must he wisely look, and gravely plead?
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The fool, and knave, 'tis glorious to offend, And godlike an attempt the world to mend; The world, where lucky throws to blockheads fall, Knaves know the game, and honest men pay all.
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Pallas, ('tis said,) when Jove grew dull, Forsook his drowsy brain; And sprightly leap'd into the throne Of wisdom's brighter reign; Her helmet took; that is, shot rays Of formidable wit; And lance,-or, genius most acute, Which lines immortal writ; And gorgon shield,-or, power to fright Man's folly, dreadful shone, And many a blockhead (easy change!)
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O how I laugh, when I a blockhead see, Thanking a villain for his probity; Who stretches out a most respectful ear, With snares for woodcocks in his holy leer: It tickles thro' my soul to hear the cock's Sincere encomium on his friend the fox, Sole patron of his liberties and rights!
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Grown men, we say, have more to do than to laugh; and the wiser sort of them leave such an unseemly contortion of the muscles to babes and blockheads.
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Mrs Arbuthnot, who daily looked to be confined, was walking with her husband upon the lawn in front of the house, when the great burly blockhead rode up, and blurted out that the rector had been thrown from his horse, and it was feared killed!
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"Oh most cunning Saknussemm; and I to be such a blockhead!"
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"And I can't make a great military genius out of a blockhead like Kurchuk.
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"The night was spent in another tavern in harmony, the songs being such as:-- "Musicks a crotchet the sober think vain, The fiddle's a wooden projection, Tunes are but flirts of a whimsical brain, Which the bottle brings best to perfection: Musicians are half-witted, merry and mad, The same are all those that admire 'em, They're fools if they play unless they're well paid, And the others are blockheads to hire 'em."
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With Dickens the poor man was not a mere clown or blockhead; but beneath his "hodden gray" often carried good feeling, intelligence, and wit.
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If David, when his toils were ended Had heard these blockheads sing before him, To us his psalms had ne'er descended; In furious mood, he would have tore 'em."
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He was a dull boy; "a stupid, heavy blockhead," is Dr. Strean's phrase in summing up the estimate formed of young Goldsmith by his contemporaries at school.
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A grain or two of the stolid self-sufficiency of the blockheads who laughed at him would not only have improved his character, but would have considerably added to the happiness of his life.
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Take your hands from your pockets, Roger; and from your head, you blockhead you.
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_Hard._ Blockhead!
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Isn't it enough that she runs after the obstinate blockhead?
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"A boy in school was a regular blockhead, and one day the teacher asked him what made him so foolish.
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"Come back here, you blockhead," snapped Jack, tugging his friend down.
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The cowardly blockheads!
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