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This contempt I now began to entertain for my husband, whom I now discovered to be--I must use the expression--an arrant blockhead.
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'You blockhead,' replied Mrs Gwynn, 'at this rate you must fight every day of your life; why, you fool, all the world knows it.'
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D--nation seize thee--fool--blockhead!
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Now for these reasons we are not to wonder that servants (I mean among the men only) should have so great regard for the reputation of the wealth of their masters, and little or none at all for their character in other points, and that, though they would be ashamed to be the footman of a beggar, they are not so to attend upon a rogue or a blockhead; and do consequently make no scruple to spread the fame of the iniquities and follies of their said masters as far as possible, and this often with great humour and merriment.
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should not I be a blockhead to lend my money to I know not who, because mayhap he may return it again?
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I say, no man has passed through this way of education but must have seen an ingenuous creature expiring with shame, with pale looks, beseeching sorrow, and silent tears, throw up its honest sighs, and kneel on its tender knees to an inexorable blockhead, to be forgiven the false quantity of a word in making a Latin verse.
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"Well, you little blockheads!" said Calabash, "will you listen any more to Martial?
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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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When you saw me I looked like a blockhead, did I not?
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To Fine Grand " Brainhardy " Doctor Empiric " Sir Samuel Fuller On Banks, the Usurer " Chevril the Lawyer Epigrammatic Verses by Samuel Butler Opinion Critics Hypocrisy Polish The Godly Piety Poets Puffing Politicians Fear The Law " " " " Confession Smatterers Bad Writers The Opinionative Language of the Learned Good Writing Courtiers Inventions Logicians Laborious Writers On a Club of Sots Holland Women Epigrams of Edmund Waller On a Painted Lady On the Marriage of the Dwarfs Epigrams of Matthew Prior A Simile The Flies Phillis's Age To the Duke de Noailles On Bishop Atterbury Forma Bonum Fragile Earning a Dinner Bibo and Charon The Pedant Epigrams of Joseph Addison The Countess of Manchester To an Ill-favored Lady To a Capricious Friend To a Rogue Epigrams of Alexander Pope On Mrs. Tofts To a Blockhead The Fool and the Poet Epigrams of Dean Swift On Burning a Dull Poem To a Lady The Cudgeled Husband On seeing Verses written upon Windows at Inns On seeing the Busts of Newton, Looke, etc.
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Hath some poor blockhead got a wife, To be the torment of his life, By one eternal yell-- The fellow cries out coarsely, "Zounds, I'd give this moment twenty pounds To see the jade in hell."
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TO A BLOCKHEAD.
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Wherever the damn'd do chiefly abound, Most certainly there is HELL to be found: Damn'd poets, damn'd critics, damn'd blockheads, damn'd knaves; Damn'd senators bribed, damn'd prostitute slaves; Damn'd lawyers and judges, damn'd lords and damn'd squires; Damn'd spies and informers, damn'd friends and damn'd liars; Damn'd villains, corrupted in every station; Dama'd time-serving priests all over the nation; And into the bargain I'll readily give you Damn'd ignorant prelates, and councillors privy.
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--I to such blockheads set my wit!
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Young Stirps as any lord is proud, Vain, haughty, insolent, and loud, Games, drinks, and in the full career Of vice, may vie with any peer; Seduces daughters, wives, and mothers, Spends his own cash, and that of others, Pays like a lord--that is to say, He never condescends to pay, But bangs his creditor in requital-- And yet this blockhead wants a title!
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Walsh, who was a sublime old blockhead, suggested to Pope that 'correctness' was the only tight-rope upon which a fresh literary performer in England could henceforth dance with any advantage of novelty; all other tight-ropes and slack-ropes of every description having been preoccupied by elder funambulists.
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Ugh, you are choking me, blockhead; let it be as it is.
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Notwithstanding that on another occasion he paradoxically asserted that the author was "a blockhead"--"a barren rascal," he read it through without stopping, and pronounced Mrs. Booth to be "the most pleasing heroine of all the romances."
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You never take any notice of anything I say; but if Mrs. Bushel or any other blockhead tells you anything, you believe that directly."
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"I'm a blockhead, that's just what I am!" cried Hiram.
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you talk like a blockhead!
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Oh, the easy blockhead!
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'Sdeath and fury, you blockhead!
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'Sdeath and fury, you blockhead, says I, she can't be out of Seville.
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Oh, blockhead, dolt Solomon!
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He has been bred in the country a bumpkin all his life, till within these six years, when he was sent to the University, but the misfortunes that have reduced his father falling out, he is returned, the most ridiculous animal you ever saw, a conceited, disputing blockhead.
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'I don't want a blockhead like you to fight for me,' answered the king.
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Aristotle was a pedantic blockhead, and still more knave than fool.
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"Then the blockheads' [blockades, that is, gunboats] 'came, and they all ran off with the blockheads,' (sob, sob, sob,) 'and left me, an old lady of forty-six, obliged to work for a living.'
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What does the blockhead say!
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that I, poor old man, should live to have the joy--what a stupid blockhead was I that I did not at a glance--oh, gracious powers!
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Blockhead, thou hast deserved the gallows; but the offended elephant tramples on men not on worms.
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G. G. Each one, when seen by himself, is passably wise and judicious; When they in corpore are, naught but a blockhead is seen.
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What does the blockhead say!
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that I, poor old man, should live to have the joy--what a stupid blockhead was I that I did not at a glance--oh, gracious powers!
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Blockhead, thou hast deserved the gallows; but the offended elephant tramples on men not on worms.
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G. G. Each one, when seen by himself, is passably wise and judicious; When they in corpore are, naught but a blockhead is seen.
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Very likely, as soon as I am no more wanted, I shall be voted a blockhead.
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What does the blockhead mean?
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"To fight you, you blockheads," answered a Mohawk Christian attached to the French.
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"To fight you, you blockheads," answered a Mohawk Christian attached to the French.
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That nearly all the blockheads with whom I have at any time had the pleasure of conversing upon the subject of style (and pardon me for saying that men of the most sense are apt, upon two subjects, viz., poetry and style, to talk _most_ like blockheads), have invariably regarded Swift's style not as if _relatively_ good [_i.e.
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A long list can be cited of passages in Shakspeare, which have been solemnly denounced by many eminent men (all blockheads) as ridiculous: and if a man _does_ find a passage in a tragedy that displeases him, it is sure to seem ludicrous: witness the indecent exposures of themselves made by Voltaire, La Harpe, and many billions beside of bilious people.
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A man who doubts, after _really_ reading Mr. Taylor's work, is not only a blockhead, but an irreclaimable blockhead.
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The rumor that ministers were themselves alarmed (which was the naked truth) travelled downwards; but the _why_ did not travel; and the innumerable blockheads of lower circles, not understanding the real cause of fear, sought a false one in the supposed thunderbolts of the rhetoric.
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There were blockheads in those days.
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At p. 315, he calls it 'this stupendous work;' and lower down on the same page he says--'I was turned out of school at the age of fifteen for a dunce or blockhead, because I would not stuff into my memory all the nonsense of erudition and learning; and if future ages should discover the unparalleled energies of genius in this work, it will prove my most important doctrine--that the powers of the human mind must be developed in the education of thought and sense in the study of moral opinion, not arts and science.'
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You think I am a perfect blockhead, a log; but do you know I am capable of melting like sugar, of spending whole days on my knees?'
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"Well, you're the prize blockhead of the West," was the impatient comment of the young Kentuckian.
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"What do I know?" he echoed; "Why, what should I know, blockhead, save what all who have eyes to see, know as well as I do!
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I beg your pardon," were Guy Remington's ejaculatory replies, as he glanced from Madeline to the open door of the adjoining room, where was visible a slate, on which, in huge letters, the amused doctor had written "Blockhead."
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Suddenly it occurred to Guy that he had gone entirely wrong, and mentally cursing himself for the blockhead the doctor had called him, he asked, kindly: "What do they teach?
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"The French, you blockhead?" answered Oldbuck-"Bah!"
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"The French, you blockhead?" answered Oldbuck-"Bah!"
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But I had no reason for apprehension on that score; for a blotted piece of paper dropped out of the book, and, being taken up by my father, he interrupted a hint from Owen, on the propriety of securing loose memoranda with a little paste, by exclaiming, "To the memory of Edward the Black Prince-What's all this?-verses!-By Heaven, Frank, you are a greater blockhead than I supposed you!"
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He then tossed the paper from him with an air of superlative contempt, and concluded-"Upon my credit, Frank, you are a greater blockhead than I took you for."
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But I had no reason for apprehension on that score; for a blotted piece of paper dropped out of the book, and, being taken up by my father, he interrupted a hint from Owen, on the propriety of securing loose memoranda with a little paste, by exclaiming, "To the memory of Edward the Black Prince-What's all this?-verses!-By Heaven, Frank, you are a greater blockhead than I supposed you!"
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He then tossed the paper from him with an air of superlative contempt, and concluded-"Upon my credit, Frank, you are a greater blockhead than I took you for."
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Hoping to escape some of the blows, the child drew closer to his mother, but the following instant he found himself tumbling head foremost toward a stone wall and heard the woman say, "Get away from me, you blockhead, or I'll dash out your brains on that stone wall.
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Seeing that he was unable to tell one letter from another, she shouted at him: "Ed, you blockhead!
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"Now, if he were bright like Elmer, I wouldn't be surprized, but Ed is such a blockhead.
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"The gloomy pictures that have been drawn of our situation," wrote Napoleon to Fouché on April 13th, "have for authors a few gossips of Paris, who are simply blockheads.
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One has a vision of preposterous proceedings; great, fat, wheezing, strigilated Roman emperors, neat Parisian gentlemen of the latest cult, the good Saint Anthony rolling on his thorns, and the piously obscene Durtal undergoing his expiatory temptations, Mahomet and Brigham Young receiving supplementary revelations, grim men babbling secrets to schoolgirls, enamoured errand boys, amorous old women, debauchees dreaming themselves thoroughly sensible men and going about their queer proceedings with insane self-satisfaction, beautiful witless young persons dressed in the most amazing things, all down the vista of history--a Vision of Fair Women--looking their conscious queenliest, sentimentalists crawling over every aspect and leaving tracks like snails, flushed young blockheads telling the world "all about women," intrigue, folly--you have as much of it as one pen may condense in old Burton's Anatomy--and through it all a vast multitude of decent, respectable bodies pretending to have quite solved the problem--until one day, almost shockingly, you get their secret from a careless something glancing out of the eyes.
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One has a vision of preposterous proceedings; great, fat, wheezing, strigilated Roman emperors, neat Parisian gentlemen of the latest cult, the good Saint Anthony rolling on his thorns, and the piously obscene Durtal undergoing his expiatory temptations, Mahomet and Brigham Young receiving supplementary revelations, grim men babbling secrets to schoolgirls, enamoured errand boys, amorous old women, debauchees dreaming themselves thoroughly sensible men and going about their queer proceedings with insane self-satisfaction, beautiful witless young persons dressed in the most amazing things, all down the vista of history--a Vision of Fair Women--looking their conscious queenliest, sentimentalists crawling over every aspect and leaving tracks like snails, flushed young blockheads telling the world "all about women," intrigue, folly--you have as much of it as one pen may condense in old Burton's Anatomy--and through it all a vast multitude of decent, respectable bodies pretending to have quite solved the problem--until one day, almost shockingly, you get their secret from a careless something glancing out of the eyes.
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It hands over the discussion of all important topics to pedants and blockheads, and bans the _argumentum ad absurdum_ which has been employed by all the great satirists from Aristophanes to Voltaire.
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Ad---son may tell his Master my Lord ---- the reason from Nature, why he would not take the Court's Word, nor write the Poem call'd, The Campaign, till he had 200 l. per Annum secur'd to him; since 'tis known they have but one Author in the Nation that writes for 'em for nothing, and he is labouring very hard to obtain the Title of Blockhead, and not be paid for it: Here D. might understand, how he came to be able to banter all Mankind, and yet all Mankind be able to banter him; at the fame time our numerous throng of Parnassians may see Reasons for the variety of the Negative and Positive Blessings they enjoy; some for having Wit and no Verse, some Verse and no Wit, some Mirth without Jest, some Jest without Fore-cast, some Rhyme and no Jingle, some all Jingle and no Rhyme, some Language without measure; some all Quantity and no Cudence, some all Wit and no Sence, some all Sence and no Flame, some Preach in Rhyme, some sing when they Preach, some all Song and no Tune, some all Tune and no Song; all these Unaccountables have their Originals, and can be answer'd for in unerring Nature, tho' in our out-side Guesses we can say little to it.
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Why, art thou so impenetrable a blockhead as to believe he'll help me with a farthing?
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Now, Sir Tunbelly, that I am untrussed--give me leave to thank thee for the very extraordinary reception I have met with in thy damned, execrable mansion; and at the same time to assure you, that of all the bumpkins and blockheads I have had the misfortune to meek with, thou art the most obstinate and egregious, strike me ugly!
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"Stop," he shouted, "you blockhead!
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head is a living argument against mere reading.
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But we can meet such argument by pointing out that the blockhead who cannot learn from books cannot learn much from life, either.
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"I am a guzzling old blockhead, and don't know how to treat a gentleman when he honors me with his company.
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you great blockhead!--If I could, what need Of paying you for any 'helps to read?'"
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You blockhead, what did he say to that?
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The other said--"For ten dollars I'd be tempted to let these two infernal blockheads have their duel."
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As well attempt to drain the sea!-- Your chart and compass let them be; All other books put under ban; Burn ARNAULD and his rigid clan-- They're blockheads if we but compare;-- It is no joke,--I tell you, man, A velvet road hath ESCOBAR.
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[19] To an astrologer who fell Plump to the bottom of a well, 'Poor blockhead!' cried a passer-by, 'Not see your feet, and read the sky?'
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The king was really a log, Whose gravity inspired with awe The first that, from his hiding-place Forth venturing, astonish'd, saw The royal blockhead's face.
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'Dismiss,' said one, 'the blockhead asses, And hares, too cowardly and fleet.'
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Sir Bear, sad blockhead, was deceived-- The prostrate man a corpse believed; But, half suspecting some deceit, He feels and snuffs from head to feet, And in the nostrils blows.
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'Ay, sirs, a dunce, a country clown, The greatest blockhead of your town,-- Nay more, an animal, an ass,-- The stupidest that nibbles grass,-- Needs only through my course to pass, And he shall wear the gown With credit, honour, and renown.'
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A flea some blockhead's shoulder bit, And then his clothes refused to quit.
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Outcried the bird of chase, As in the weeds he eyed the skulker's face, 'Why, what a stupid, blockhead race!-- Such witless, brainless fools Might well defy the schools.
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Meanwhile, all other kinds and tribes As fools and blockheads it describes, With other compliments as cheap.
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He is never engaged in disputes, and this not from a milkiness and yielding to others, but he seems superior to contention, and leaves a blockhead to enjoy his own nonsense."
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It was to be regretted that while evincing to the utmost his own contempt for what was "trifling and unworthy," it was impracticable for Collingwood to follow the example of his small midshipman and contentedly "leave a blockhead to his own nonsense."
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'Oh, you fools and blockheads!' cried their wives, 'how could you ever believe for a moment that a goat would do the work of a servant-maid?
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When one of his comrades heard what had happened, he said, 'You blockhead, you can't have done it properly; just let me have a try,' and with these words he seized his wife by the roots of her hair, cut her throat with a razor, and then took the pipe and blew into it with all his might but he couldn't bring her back to life.
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We all started, the men dipped their oars, our dreams were dispelled, the charm was broken--"Confound the matter--of--fact blockhead," or something very like it, grumbled the captain--"but give way, men," fast followed, and we returned towards the ship.
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On attempting the ford two hours ago, blockheads as we were beg pardon, Don Pavo"--the doctor bowed, and grinned like a baboon--"we had nearly been drowned; indeed, we should have been drowned entirely, had we not brought up on this island of Barataria here.--But how is the young lady?
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Our precious blockheads at the dockyard had fitted a thirty--two pound carronade on the pivot, and stuck two long sixes, one on each side of the little vessel.
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