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"Blockheads!" this was his usual mode of addressing his _jeunesse dorée_--"blockheads!

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"Hie, there, you blockhead!

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"And now, Guszti Klimpa, stand out and repeat to these blockheads what I have been saying."

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"That is what I don't mean to tell to the first blockhead I meet.

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"'Well,' says that squinting blockhead Hamza, 'if there's no poison in that cask there is in the other, so draw us some out of that, Samsi!'

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I will not presume to deny that they may, perhaps, intend to do what you say, such ideas may and do occur at times to some blockhead or other.

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"Look now, blockhead!

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you blockheads, you brutes, you stupid numbskulls!"

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Go away, blockhead, or you will find something to remember a while."

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"Oh, stupid blockheads!

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So he gave a great pull, the cat's tail was loosened, the cat fell into the dog's mouth, the dog into his mistress' mouth, the mistress into her husband's, her husband into his friend's, and his friend into the mouth of the blockheads who are listening to me.

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"You'll but get a judge's wig, Blockheads may be conscience-panged, Knaves are pensioned, but, _not_ hanged!"

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You are not the blockhead we take you for after all; but you delight to see your public men in motley, and the rogues will fool you to the top of your bent, till it is your pleasure to put down the show.

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This speech gave the abbot great satisfaction and himseemed fortune had opened him the way to his chief desire; wherefore, 'Daughter,' quoth he, 'I can well believe that it must be a sore annoy for a fair and dainty dame such as you are to have a blockhead to husband, but a much greater meseemeth to have a jealous man; wherefore, you having both the one and the other, I can lightly credit that which you avouch of your tribulation.

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By Christ His faith (and I should know what I say, when I swear thus) I have not a single gossip who went a maid to her husband; and as for the wives, I know full well how many and what tricks they play their husbands; and this blockhead would teach me to know women, as if I had been born yesterday."

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The maid comforted her and going in quest of Pyrrhus found him merry and well-disposed and said to him, 'Pyrrhus I showed thee, a few days agone, in what a fire my lady and thine abideth for the love she beareth thee, and now anew I certify thee thereof, for that, an thou persist in the rigour thou showedst the other day, thou mayst be assured that she will not live long; wherefore I prithee be pleased to satisfy her of her desire, and if thou yet abide fast in thine obstinacy, whereas I have still accounted thee mighty discreet, I shall hold thee a blockhead.

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Master Simone did his utmost to excuse Bruno, saying and swearing that he had learned the thing from another quarter, and after many of his wise words, he succeeded in pacifying Buffalmacco; whereupon the latter turned to him and said, 'Doctor mine, it is very evident that you have been at Bologna and have brought back a close mouth to these parts; and I tell you moreover that you have not learnt your A B C on the apple as many blockheads are fain to do; nay, you have learned it aright on the pumpkin, that is so long;[405] and if I mistake not, you were baptized on a Sunday.

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Give this lad a dram; and, as it rather looks like a shower, I'll e'en no go out the night.--I'll easy manage to find another driver, though half a hundred o' the blockheads should get their brains knocked out.'

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Rufus was a blockhead.

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Given a blockhead like Armadale, and a dreamer like Midwinter, there is no reason in nature, and no reason in art, why a lady of Miss Gwilt's advantages should not marry both of them; and the author's overruling on this point is more creditable to his heart than to his head.

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"Do you think I have nothing better to do than waste my time over a blockhead like you?

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He had prided himself on his acute insight into human nature in general, and upon his specialized, intensified knowledge of those two women whom he had known so long and studied so minutely; but "I've been a conceited blockhead, and vanity's treacherous as well as damnable," he cried out to his sister some days later, amazed beyond expression at the way in which their loss affected Lydia and her mother.

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Do you hear _that_, gentlemen blockheads, that seldom hear anything but yourselves?

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dolt, blockhead, have you no eyes--have you no soul?'

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"Drop that leg, you confounded blockheads!" he thundered out suddenly.

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Prior _James Kenneth Stephen_ 362 To a Blockhead _Alexander Pope_ 362 The Fool and the Poet _Alexander Pope_ 363 A Rhymester _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363 Giles's Hope _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363 Cologne _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 363 An Eternal Poem _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364 On a Bad Singer _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364 Job _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 364 Reasons for Drinking _Dr.

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Why, blockhead, are you mad?

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_James Kenneth Stephen._ TO A BLOCKHEAD You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

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120 Kiss in the Rain, A 123 |Pelham, M.| Comical Girl, The 946 |Perry, Nora| Love Knot, The 124 |Philips, Barclay| Polka Lyric, A 832 |Philips, John| Splendid Shilling, The 316 |Piggot, Mostyn T.| Hundred Best Books, The 769 |Planché, J. R.| Song 99 |Pontalais, Jehan Du| Money 323 |Pope, Alexander| Fool and the Poet, The 363 Ruling Passion, The 285 To a Blockhead 362 |Porson, Richard| Dido 366 Nothing 786 |Porter, H. H.| Forty Years After 210 |Praed, Winthrop Mackworth| Belle of the Ball, The 171 Song of Impossibilities, A 327 |Pratt, Florence E.| Courting in Kentucky 168 |Prior, Matthew| Epitaph, An 765 Phillis's Age 332 Remedy Worse Than the Disease, A 365 Simile, A 262 |Proudfit, David Law| Prehistoric Smith 83 |Prout, Father| Malbrouck 28 Sabine Farmer's Serenade, The 214 |Ramal, Walter| Bunches of Grapes 947 |Rands, W. B.| Clean Clara 283 |Riley, James Whitcomb| Little Orphant Annie 934 Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The 858 Man in the Moon, The 856 Old Man and Jim, The 678 Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance 925 Spirk Throll-Derisive 855 When the Frost Is on the Punkin 34 |Robertson, Harrison| Kentucky Philosophy 325 |Robinson, Edwin Arlington| Miniver Cheevy 229 Two Men 35 |Roche, James Jeffrey| Boston Lullaby, A 240 Lament of the Scotch Irish Exile 385 Sailor's Yarn, A 680 V-A-S-E, The 227 |Rodger, Alexander| Behave Yoursel' Before Folk 174 |Romaine, Harry| Unattainable, The 141 |Ropes, Arthur Reed| Lost Pleiad, The 161 |Russell, Irwin| First Banjo, The 672 |Sancta-Clara, á Abraham| St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes 251 |Saxe, John G.| Comic Miseries 42 Early Rising 44 Echo 750 Rhyme of the Rail 748 Sonnet to a Clam 734 Woman's Will 362 |Sawyer, William| "Caudal" Lecture, A 92 Cremation 534 Turvey Top 884 |Scollard, Clinton| Ballade of the Golfer in Love 222 Noureddin, the Son of the Shah 199 |Scott, Sir Walter| Herring, The 949 Nora's Vow 159 |Seaman, Owen| At the Sign of the Cock 414 Of Baiting the Lion 893 Plea for Trigamy, A 68 Presto Furioso 417 To Julia in Shooting Togs 418 |Sheridan, Richard Brinsley| Literary Lady, The 278 Wife, A 366 |Shults, George Francis| Under the Mistletoe 196 |Sibley, Charles| Plaidie, The 190 |Sidney, James A.| Irish Schoolmaster, The 103 |Sims, George R.| By Parcels Post 262 |Smith, Harry B.| "I Didn't Like Him" 157 My Angeline 158 Same Old Story 360 |Smith, Horace| Gouty Merchant and the Stranger, The 563 Jester Condemned to Death, The 378 |Smith, James| Baby's Début, The 390 Surnames 804 |Smith, Sydney| Salad 93 |Southey, Robert| Battle of Blenheim, The 252 Cataract of Lodore, The 743 Devil's Walk on Earth, The 298 March to Moscow, The 775 Pig, The 914 Well of St. Keyne, The 584 |Stanton, Frank Libby| How to Eat Watermelons 73 |Stephen, James Kenneth| Cynicus to W. Shakespeare 362 Last Ride Together, The 431 Millennium, The 60 School 60 Senex to Matt.

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S. Gilbert_ 641 Strictly Germ-Proof _Arthur Guiterman_ 87 Strike Among the Poets, A _Unknown_ 785 Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink _Rudyard Kipling_ 226 Styx River Anthology _Carolyn Wells_ 521 Surnames _James Smith_ 804 Susan _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 157 Susan Simpson _Unknown_ 774 Sympathy _Reginald Heber_ 270 T Takings _Thomas Hood, Jr._ 817 Tam o' Shanter _Robert Burns_ 623 Ternary of Littles, Upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A _Robert Herrick_ 806 Terrible Infant, A _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 156 'Tis Midnight _Unknown_ 843 'Tis Sweet to Roam _Unknown_ 878 That Gentle Man from Boston Town _Joaquin Miller_ 629 That Texan Cattle Man _Joaquin Miller_ 288 Thingumbob, The _Unknown_ 882 Then Ag'in _Sam Walter Foss_ 357 "There's a Bower of Bean-vines" _Ph[oe]be Cary_ 493 There Was a Little Girl _Unknown_ 926 Third Proposition, The _Madeline Bridges_ 345 Thought, A _James Kenneth Stephen_ 248 Three Black Crows, The _John Byrom_ 254 Three Children _Unknown_ 843 Three Jovial Huntsmen _Unknown_ 878 Thursday _Frederick E. Weatherly_ 313 Tim Turpin _Thomas Hood_ 795 To a Blockhead _Alexander Pope_ 362 To a Capricious Friend _Joseph Addison_ 368 To a Fly _John Wolcot_ 734 To an Importunate Host _Unknown_ 534 To a Slow Walker and Quick Eater _Lessing_ 369 To a Thesaurus _Franklin P. Adams_ 825 To Be or Not To Be _Unknown_ 891 To Doctor Empiric _Ben Jonson_ 365 To Julia in Shooting Togs _Owen Seaman_ 418 To Marie _John Bennett_ 852 To Minerva _Thomas Hood_ 49 To My Empty Purse _Geoffrey Chaucer_ 58 To My Nose _Alfred A. Forrester_ (_Alfred Croquill_) 832 Too Late _Fitz Hugh Ludlow_ 348 To Ph[oe]be _W.

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There was a young _avocat_ from Bordeaux, a man named Dubosc, short, dark, one-eyed, humpbacked, bandy-legged, the very black deuce in person, who used to come all horned and hoofed, to drag the Père Longuemare feet first out of his bed, announcing to the culprit that he was condemned to the everlasting flames of hell and doomed past redemption for having made of the Creator of the Universe a jealous being, a blockhead, and a bully, an enemy of human happiness and love.

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With two generals, both blockheads, face to face, one of them must inevitably be victorious.

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Goodness only knows!--for none but a pompous blockhead or a solemn prig will pretend that he never relaxes.

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More than any other of his works it was written to please himself: he did so much more than he was paid to do that he almost refuted his own doctrine that no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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On their side, the Arabs see in the Turk only a blockhead; in his placidity and taciturnity only stupidity and ignorance; in his respect for law only slavishness; and in his love of material well-being only gross bestiality.

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A crowd of stupid, haughty blockheads!

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_The indecent Images, and the frequent and bad Imitations of the Classics in the _Dunciad_, have occasioned several just Observations upon so new and coarse a Manner of Writing: I shall wave this Topic at present, and only regard the most plausible Insinuation in Favour of this Author; which is, that he never begun an Attack upon any Person, who had not before, either in Print or private Conversation, endeavour'd something to his Disadvantage._ _This Assertion is by no means true, as I shall immediately shew; if it were true, it might indeed bear some Weight, but however with this Distinction, that the Reports of private Conversation, brought to him by such Emissaries, as belong to him, are not always to be believed, and that no Attack in Print upon a Man's Poetical Character, ought to be repaid by Lampoon and Virulence upon the Moral Character of his Antagonist: Every Person has a Right to determine upon the Talents of Writers, particularly of one, who appears in Publick only to gratify the two worst Appetites, that disgrace Human Nature, I mean Malice and Avarice; and sure no Man deserves a violent Injury to his Reputation, as a Gentleman, because perhaps at a Distance of several Years since he might have said, that Mr. _Pope_ had nothing in him Original as a Writer, that Mr. _Tickel_ greatly excelled him in his Translation of _Homer_, and many of his Contemporaries in other Branches of Writing, and that he is infinitely inferior to Mr. _Phillips_ in Pastoral: And yet such Arguments or Apologies as these have been used by himself, or his Tea-Table Cabals, for calling Gentlemen Scoundrels, Blockheads, Gareteers, and Beggars,: If he can transmit them to Posterity under such Imputations, he is a bad Man; if he cannot, he is a bad Writer: I believe, that he would rather suffer under the first Character, than the last: But before I have done with him, I will make a very strict Inquiry into both._ _In the mean time I shall shew the Reader, in general, the Falshood of his main Pretence, that he has meddled with no one, that had not before hurt him, and in this View, tho' I should be ashamed of being too serious in a Controversy of this Sort, I think it proper to acquaint the Town with the original Design of the _Dunciad_, and the real Reasons of its Production.

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by blooming Critics read, At Toilets _ogled_, and with Sweetmeats fed: See, lisping Toilers grace thy _Dunciad_'s Cause, And scream their witty Scavenger's Applause, While powder'd Wits, and lac'd Cabals rehearse Thy bawdy _Cento_, and thy _Bead-roll_ Verse; Gay, bugled Statesmen on thy Side debate, And libel'd Blockheads court thee, tho' they hate.

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"Better for you, you blockhead, if they didn't."

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What an eternal blockhead am I!

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None but dull rogues think; witty men, like rich fellows, are always ready for all expenses; while your blockheads, like poor needy scoundrels, are forced to examine their stock, and forecast the charges of the day.

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Of this performance the value certainly is but little; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty, and was so much favoured by the audience, that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism; and Griffin, a player, in conjunction with Mr. Theobald, a man afterwards more remarkable, produced a pamphlet, called the Key to the What d'ye call it; which, says Gay, "calls me a blockhead, and Mr. Pope a knave."

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"Mr. Bettesworth," answered he, "I was in my youth acquainted with great lawyers, who, knowing my disposition to satire, advised me, that if any scoundrel or blockhead whom I had lampooned should ask, 'Are you the author of this paper?'

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Two blockheads are worse than one insofar as they tend to regard each other as a source of wisdom.

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Go down the stair, you silly blockhead.

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A blockhead like VanDeusen would simply be lifted to a position of higher authority, only to be replaced by another blockhead.

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We do not think very highly of the mutton-headed Athenians at Philadelphia; but we do think, nevertheless, that Mr. John E. Hall is a little too much of a blockhead even for their meridian."

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It was asked in New York, "are the Americans such blockheads as to care whether it be a hot red poker, or a red hot poker which they are to swallow, provided Lord North forces them to swallow one of the two?"

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Nothing so idle as to waste This Life disputing upon _Taste_; And most--let that sad Truth be written-- In this contentious Land of _Britain_, Where each one holds "it seems to me" Equivalent to Q. E. D., And if you dare to doubt his Word Proclaims you Blockhead and absurd.

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blockhead!

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the blockhead gave his eight krans to a beggar?

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He came to call on me in George's Square, and pointed out in the strongest terms the silliness of the conduct I had adopted, told me I was distinguished by the name of the _Greek Blockhead_, and exhorted me to redeem my reputation while it was called to-day.

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Not one word of it!--any blockhead may stick to truth, my hearty--but 't is a sad hamperer of genius."]

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When utterly disheartened, I have encouraged the boy by the anecdote of Newton, where he attributes the difference between him and other men, mainly to his own patience; or of Mirabeau, when he ordered his servant, who had stated something to be impossible, never again to use that blockhead of a word.

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"You blockhead!

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"You are a blockhead, Phil."

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You blockhead!" sneered he.

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"Another blunder, you blockhead!

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"You are the stupidest blockhead I ever saw, for one who knows how to keep a set of books.

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I felt that I was as great a blockhead as my persecutor had accused me of being, and I forgave him for calling me one.

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And the Pundit will take you to be a blockhead.

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("Oh, the blockhead," thought March)--"but see hims no can git away, so hims rush past me!

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"Yes, Oliver was always a plodding old blockhead!" drily observed Pembury, who seemed to enjoy the small boy's indignation whenever any one spoke disrespectfully of his big brother.

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"He's not a blockhead!" retorted Stephen, fiercely.

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"You blockhead!

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"Shut up, you miserable blockhead, unless you want to be kicked!" shouted Bullinger.

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"I do, you young blockhead!"

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The man who is no æsthete stands confessed, by the logic of language and the necessity of the case, as a thick-witted, tasteless, senseless, and impenetrable blockhead.

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"You are a blockhead,--you have no management," replied the first voice.

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You see what a blockhead I have been.

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"Messer Guido, will you tell this blockhead who I am?"

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If I don't act a little skeptical, he'll think I'm either a blockhead or a phony or both."

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What can they do with a traitor, a couple of blockheads[74], and two chambers, that do not know what they would be at?

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Cervantes was furious, and called him a blockhead; but Germond de Lavigue, the distinguished Spanish scholar, rashly asserts that but for this Avellanada, he would never have finished "Don Quixote."

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To this burden women are born, they must obey their husbands if they are ever such blockheads.

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Let this blockhead alone, I beseech your excellencies, He will grind your souls to death, not between two, but two thousand proverbs, all timed as well and as much to the purpose as I wish God may grant him health, or me, if I desire to hear them."

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"Your graces will do well," said Don Quixote, "to order this blockhead to retire, that you may get rid of his troublesome folly."

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Whence it may be gathered, that, God Almighty often directs the judgment of those who govern, though otherwise mere blockheads: besides, he had heard the priest of his parish tell a like case; and, were it not that he was so unlucky as to forget all he had a mind to remember, his memory was so good, there would not have been a better in the whole island.

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ABSOLUTE You blockhead, never say more than is necessary.

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ACRES A vile, sheep-hearted blockhead!

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And then----" "I also know the miracle about Queen Alixe," another woman interposed, eager to show her knowledge of the marvel of the Relic, "for my sister dwelleth by the gate of the Convent of the Troödos, and she hath much learning of the most blessed Relic;--how that Queen Alixe laid the bit on her tongue--she who could never speak fairly--more like a blockhead of a stammering peasant than a Royal lady--may Heaven forgive me!

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"Why, of course," he thought, "I'm the biggest blockhead that ever lived!

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But in getting alongside the schooner he nearly swamped, and I was told began abusing my crew for a set of blockheads.

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He was in a state of exhaustion and collapse, and when brought into Apia was more dead than alive, and the doctor was quickly summoned I at once went to see him, but was not admitted to his room, and for three days he had to lie up, suffering from shock--and, I trust, a feeling of humility for being such an obstinate blockhead.

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Wolfe Tone says of him: "Of all the vain obstinate blockheads that ever I met I never saw his equal.

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To the British Museum Douce left a volume of the works of Albert Dürer which had formerly belonged to Nollekens, his impressions from monumental brasses, and his 'commented copies of the blockhead Whitaker's History of Manchester, and his Cornwall Cathedral.'

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His old Bouvard was turning into a blockhead; in short, "he was no longer in it at all."

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Well, if any one who does not understand Natural Selection will read this, he will be a blockhead if it is not as clear as daylight.

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I swore you had nothing to do with the plot, monsieur, but had acted throughout as the King's friend; then he stormed at me again, and called me a blockhead for coming to the palace with such a mad story.

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It was very evident that there was no hope of family restoration to be founded on so profound a blockhead--an ass that could not get into the church--that moped and wandered about the woods--that trembled when he was spoken to; and so far from pushing his way in the world, and acquiring a fortune by running off with an heiress, had not courage enough to look a milkmaid in the face.

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I recast Dr. Johnson's saying: "None but a blockhead would write unless he needed money."

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None but a blockhead would write for money, unless he had to.

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"No, I didn't call, blockhead.

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"Who told you?" he said; "some blockhead, I 'll be bound, who did n't break it to you gently as I would 'a' done.

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It took centuries of blockheads to raise a joint stool into a chair; and it required something like a miracle of genius, in the estimate of elder generations, to reveal the possibility of lengthening a chair into a _chaise-longue_, or a sofa.

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Bitle-head _s._ a blockhead Becal _v._ to abuse, to rail at Bedfly _s._ a flea Bed-lier _s._ a bed-ridden person Beever _s._ a hedge-side encumbered with brambles Begaur, Begaurz, Begumm, Begummers, words of asseveration and exclamation Begrumpled _adj._ soured, displeased Begurg _v._ begrudge Behither _adv._ on this side Belge, or Belve _v._ to bellow Belk, or Bulk, _v._ to belch Bell flower, Bell-rose, a Daffodil Belsh _v._ to clean the tails of sheep Benet, Bents _s._ Bennetty _adj._ long coarse grass, and plantain stalks Benge _v._ to continue tippling, to booze Benns, or Bends, ridges of grass lands Bepity _v.a._ to pity Beskummer _v._ to besmear, abuse, reproach Bethink _v._ to grudge, ex.

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2) Nesh, Naish _adj._ tender, delicate (A S _hnesc_) Nestle-tripe _s._ the poorest bird in the nest; weakest pig in the litter; puny child Never-the-near to no purpose Newelty _s._ novelty Nickle _v.n._ to move hastily along in an awkward manner _adj._ beaten down, applied to corn Nicky, Nicky-wad _s._ a small fagot of thorns Niddick _s._ the nape of the neck Nif _conj._ if and if 'Nighst, Noist _prep._ nigh, near Ninny-watch _s._ a longing desire Nippigang, Nimpingang _s._ a whitlow Nitch _s._ a burden, a fagot of wood Nix _v._ to impose on, to nick Northern, Northering _adj._ incoherent, foolish Nosset _s._ a dainty dish such as is fit for a sick person 'Nottamy _s._ applied to a man become very thin (anatomy) Nug _s._ unshapen piece of timber, a block Nug-head _s._ a blockhead Nuncle _s._ uncle _v.a._ to cheat Nurt, or Nort nothing (w. of Parret) Nuthen _s._ a great stupid fellow Oak-web (wuck-ub) _s._ cock-chafer, may-bug Oak-wuck _s._ the club at cards Oaves _s._ the eaves of a house Odments _s.

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"Get off of me, you little blockhead," said McCarty growing furious as he heard the jeers of his teammates at his humiliating reversal.

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