The 126 occurrences of half-wit
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Then she seemed to see her mother's gentle face and, conquering the aversion she felt, she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the discolored, ill-shapen lips of the half-wit.
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The library door was open, and it seemed as if the half-wit were trying to force the other backward into the building.
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"For the family," was Cleena's watchword, and it had already become the half-wit's.
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"The half-wit?
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Hallam regarded the half-wit critically.
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From that it was rescued by the half-wit and treasured carefully; for to the purpose formed in his mind it would prove a great help.
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Whether purposely or not, it was impossible to say, but in his outward rush the half-wit brushed so rudely past Hallam that he knocked his crutch from his grasp, so that he would have fallen, had not the superintendent caught and steadied the lad to a seat.
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So that when the half-wit finally paused for breath, he felt himself caught by his collar and heard a stern voice demanding:-- "What's this?
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The object was the incipient statesman, and in a second more the half-wit had also reached the kitchen floor and had shut the door behind him.
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All the fairy tales of her beloved Ireland rushed through her mind, and she regarded the half-wit with a new veneration.
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Within a day or two he had had occasion to suspect that the half-wit had some uncanny scheme on hand.
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Recalling this speech, Amy tried to put herself in the half-wit's place, which effort made her pity him the more, yet watch his present manoeuvres none the less closely.
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On such an afternoon, at such an hour, he judged that nobody would be in the mill building save the distant watchman and that indefatigable toiler, Archibald Wingate, with whom was the half-wit's present business.
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The mill owner laid an iron grip upon the half-wit's shoulder, who made no effort to escape; for at last, at last, there had penetrated to his dim intelligence the wide, the awful difference between good and evil.
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In bestowing his gift he had provided to have it in such shape as he knew the half-wit would best comprehend.
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The most popular one with the boys was a poor half-wit known among them as Morn; and he was a favorite with them because he had fits, and because, when he had a fit, he would seem to fly all over the woodpile.
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If he were not the poor half-wit he is, we would by all means.
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For the instant he partially suspected mischief and wheeled about, but one look at the half-wit dissipated all doubt.
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"But, Brent, that damned half-wit will take savage delight in spreading his story--" the Colonel gritted his teeth and could not finish.
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"Pedro knows me," returned Lefever, the other man, "but McAlpin says there is a new man here, a half-wit.
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Purcell led John Gutman, the town half-wit.
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HALF-WIT Half"-wit', n. Defn: A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.
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Seem's if the Evil One had been let loose, here at Sobrante, when the word of a half-wit--poor half, at that--is held proof against the entire life of an honest old man."
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But the half-wit, Ferd?
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Seems if even a half-wit would steal from his own brother, and it must have passed through Antonio's hands first."
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But the poor lad, my half-wit brother Ferd, ugly, sinful, desolate--he will be left alone.