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'Blockhead!' exclaims she; 'why I must have bread to my wine, you know, and I have not a penny to purchase any.
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It's run here, there and everywhere, all in a minute, with a dozen blockheads to look after.
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She has only one kind of flowers--in her hand, as botanical classification stands at present; and whether the system be more rational, or in any human sense more scientific, which puts calceolaria and speedwell together,--and foxglove and euphrasy; and runs them on one side into the mints, and on the other into the nightshades;--naming them, meanwhile, some from diseases, some from vermin, some from blockheads, and the rest anyhow:--or the method I am pleading for, which teaches us, watchful of their seasonable return and chosen abiding places, to associate in our memory the flowers which truly resemble, or fondly companion, or, in time kept by the signs of Heaven, succeed, each other; and to name them in some historical connection with the loveliest fancies and most helpful faiths of the ancestral world--Proserpina be judge; with every maid that sets flowers on brow or breast--from Thule to Sicily.
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the melancholy owl, you blockhead!
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It sometimes begins middle or final syllables in words compounded, as blockhead ; or derived from the Latin, as comprehend .
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The common-sense commander would find a judicious retreat from an untenable position, and the blockhead would persevere with it during a whole voyage, and boastfully retail a sickening story of meanness to an audience who, he cherished the idea, would regard him as a hero!
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"But you're a blockhead--a great, good blockhead.
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They say that two heads are better than one, even if one is a blockhead--meaning me, of course.
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There is no earthly use striving for such blockheads; they'd crucify any Saviour."
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He says, in speaking of His Majesty, "It is intolerable to think that it should be in the power of _one_ blockhead to do so much mischief"--meaning, I presume, amongst many other blunders, the mess he was persisting in making over American affairs.
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'Well, lock every door leading up this way, and shut out the gossipping blockheads who will come by hundreds, and, if we would let them, swarm into my room as thick as the frogs were in the houses of the Egyptians.
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what a blockhead was I, not to find it out!
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In his opinion Sir Robert Walpole was "a great rogue"; Mr. Horace Walpole, ambassador to France, was a "dirty buffoon"; Newcastle, an "impertinent fool"; Lord Townshend, a "choleric blockhead";[103] while Lord Chesterfield was disposed of as a "tea-table scoundrel.
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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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This is perhaps the largest idol in the world, and is called by the Dutch in derision, _The great blockhead of Lust_.
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you double-distilled blockhead," said he, "no such thing--you're thinking of someone else.
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"Mule bray!" cried Mrs. Jorrocks, clapping her hands with delight, "there's a cockney blockhead for you!
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The surgeon turned about, but instead of giving any assistance, exclaimed, "You blockhead, what do you do here with a man that has lost his head?"
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Quit the walk, blockhead," he hissed at Israel.
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"The motive that actuates me to do this," he wrote, "is to convince the world that the monks (of whom some have so despicable an opinion) were not such blockheads as generally thought, and that good poetry might be wrote in the dark days of superstition, as well as in these more enlightened ages."
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What a blockhead, to believe any person is so active as myself!
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"Hearing these words of the Gandharva, Arjuna said, 'Blockhead, whether it be day, night, or twilight, who can bar others from the ocean, the sides of the Himalayas, and this river?
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I stood and stared like a blockhead for a minute, at my wit's end, and she sat there and smiled.
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Och, but we are a silly lot o' blockheads!"
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The teacher did the best he could to make him learn; but his lessons were never more than half learned, and the greater part of the time they were not studied at all: and, though naturally he was a bright, smart boy, he seemed determined to grow up a blockhead.
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"A ghost, you blockhead," says Mr. Long, in a pet; "did either of you ever see a ghost in a church, or know anybody that did?"
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"The blockhead doesn't seem to know yet," growled the captain, as the other turned away, "that the lead will give you deep water here until your vessel has her nose upon the cliff."
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He is also sufficiently artful to conceal the fact that he considers the person he is talking to a mixture of a snob and a blockhead.
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Writing on this subject to Vossius, he tells him that his Landlord's two sons were at the Hague learning Grammar; that they were beginning to make Themes and Versions; that if what they had already learnt were not cultivated, they would soon forget it; and that the time which boys spent in their Studies at Hamburg was lost, the method of teaching being only fit to make blockheads.
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Jack, I have told you all this and shall tell you more because--well, you know Plato said that he would rather be a blockhead than have all knowledge and nobody to share it.
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How often in this journal have we been obliged to draw upon these blockheads, and disperse them sword in hand!
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O gentlemen, blockheads!
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To refuse the offer of the Spanish nation was the act of a blockhead of which I should not be guilty again."
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Three days carousing with this old blockhead!
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The science thus--to speak in fit Terms--having struggled from its nit, Was seized on by a swarm of Scotchmen Those scientifical hotch-potch men, Who have at least a penny dip, And wallop in all doctorship, Just as in making broth they smatter By bobbing twenty things in water: These men, I say, made quick appliance And close, to phrenologic science; For of all learned themes whatever, That schools and colleges deliver, There's none they love so near the bodles, As analysing their own noddles; Thus in a trice each northern blockhead Had got his fingers in his shock head, And of his bumps was babbling yet worse Than poor Miss Capulet's dry wet-nurse; Till having been sufficient rangers Of their own heads, they took to strangers'.
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I'm an old blockhead to think that you were having an attack of ghosts.
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They always represented you as a parcel of blockheads, without sense, or even feeling; that all your words were only the echo of faction here; and (as you have seen above) that you had not understanding enough to know that your trade was cramped by restrictive acts of the British Parliament, unless we had, for factious purposes, given you the information.
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=tonto= silly, stupid, fool, blockhead.
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Why, blockhead, art thou mad?
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_Elding_, _eliding_, fuel; _ettle_, to intend, aim at; _feal_, to hide; _fell_, a hill; _fey_, doomed, fated to die; _flake_, a hurdle; _force_, a water-fall; _gab_, idle talk; _gain_, adj., convenient, suitable; _gait_, a hog; _gar_, to cause, to make; _garn_, yarn; _garth_, a field, a yard; _gate_, a way, street; _ged_, a pike; _gilder_, a snare, a fishing-line; _gilt_, a young sow; _gimmer_, a young ewe; _gloppen_, to scare, terrify; _glare_, to stare, to glow; _goam_, _gaum_, to stare idly, to gape, whence _gomeril_, a blockhead; _gowk_, a cuckoo, a clown; _gowlan_, _gollan_, a marigold; _gowpen_, a double handful; _gradely_, respectable; _graithe_, to prepare; _grice_, a young pig; _haaf_, the open sea; _haver_, oats; _how_, a hillock, mound; _immer-goose_, _ember-goose_, the great Northern diver; _ing_, a lowlying meadow; _intake_, a newly enclosed or reclaimed portion of land; _keld_, a spring of water; _kenning_, knowledge, experience; _kilp_, _kelp_, the iron hook in a chimney on which pots are hung; _kip_, to catch fish in a particular way; _kittle_, to tickle; _lain_, _lane_, to conceal; _lair_, a muddy place, a quick-sand; _lait_, to seek; _lake_, to play; _lathe_, a barn; _lax_, a salmon; _lea_, a scythe; _leister_, a fish-spear with prongs and barbs; _lift_, the air, sky; _lig_, to lie down; _lispund_, a variable weight; _lit_, to dye; _loon_, the Northern diver; _lowe_, a flame, a blaze.
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Blockhead!...
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With him Blake served out his seven years of apprenticeship, as faithful, painstaking, and industrious as any blockhead.
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But the contractor had already drawn himself up on his short, squat legs, and was staring at the picture, and asking aloud in his thick hoarse voice: 'I say, who's the blockhead that painted this?'
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The public monitor of truth, Sworn enemy to what's uncouth, With blockheads similarly spells, (Orthography with pleasure tells) That thus the force of ridicule Should laugh the learned back to school.
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There were few, if any, dunces or blockheads among them, for a life on shipboard had no attractions for such boys.
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One hesitates to proclaim the excessively stupid things that stir the crowd, and the blockhead who is bold enough to declare his folly creates a hellish noise with his nonsense, while a man of refinement, who is not always a squeamish man, remains in his corner unseen.
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Our poet, with all his gratitude and veneration for "the noble Glencairn," was "wounded to the soul" because his lordship showed "so much attention, engrossing attention, to the only blockhead at table; the whole company consisted of his lordship, Dunderpate, and myself."
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"If ever he speaks favorably of the productions of a particular friend, dissent boldly from him; pronounce his friend to be a blockhead; never fear his being vexed.
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"What a blockhead I am!" he cried.--"On what a bait was I caught!
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Several persons have made such suggestions and objections as yours about the hands being held up in astonishment:[97] if there was any straining of the muscles, as with protruded arms under fright, I would agree: as it is I must keep to my old opinion, and I daresay you will say that I am an obstinate old blockhead.--My dear Wallace, yours very sincerely, CH.
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Here I am prevented from going to that girl to-night--and that barbarous old blockhead of a squire, who was so near throwing me off for a beggarly Papist rebel: and doubly, trebly, quadruply cursed be that same rebel for crossing my path as he has done.
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"This blockhead," said Connor, "knows nothing about him, only what he has heard; he's a pig dealer, and is now on his way to the fair of Sligo; come on."
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You're a blockhead, oh, divine Samson; and that--that thick head of yours would flatten a cannon-ball.
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"You know nothing about it, you old blockhead.
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you are the most obstinate blockhead that ever lived; but I've done; I did all in my power to save you--yet to no purpose.
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"I can do nothing else," replied the other, "for I know no more where I am than the man of the moon, who, if all's thrue that's sed of him, is the biggest blockhead alive."
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You have mistaken the room, you blockhead; this is a gentleman.
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Suppose, my worthy old magister, that I miss a fellowship--why, what remains, but to sink down into a resident mastership, and grind blockheads for the remainder of my life?
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Then, again, here is the visit from this conscientious old blockhead, Lord Cullamore, who won't allow me to manage my daughter after my own manner.
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"You will expose me then, and disgrace me forever with this cursed conscientious old blockhead?
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"Well, then, throw me over my dressing-gown and nightcap; here, pull it up behind, you blockhead;--there now--how do I look?"
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"How could I know him by that, you blockhead?"
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He had gotten the philosophical blockhead's crotchet into his head, and carried the principle, in a practical point of view, much further than ever the old fool himself did in his life.
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"You're a cursed clever fellow, Val, an able knave, as I said--but I don't like your son; he's a dishonest blockhead, and I needn't tell you that the man who has not brains enough to be dishonest is a most contemptible scoundrel."
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Would you have some honest blockhead, who, when you are to be served by a piece of friendly rascality, will plead scruples.
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By Japers, you're no blockhead!'
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"Not at all, you blockhead; although you get a magistracy in the paragraph, you don't imagine, I expect, you should get one directly.
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"Honest, you blockhead!
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"I admit--why, you blockhead, does not the letter itself prove as much?"
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"Why, won't I be out of the district, you blockhead?
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This tyrannical blockhead, whose name I do not choose to mention, instead of being allowed to teach classics, ought to have been put into a strait-waistcoat or the stocks, and either whipped once in every twenty-four hours, or kept in a madhouse until the day of his death.
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On the contrary, he uniformly "nursed his wrath to keep it warm," until the son of a poor man transgressed, and on his unfortunate body he was sure to wreak signal vengeance for the stupidity or misconduct of the wealthy blockhead.
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There he stands, a solemn, shallow, conceited, narrow-minded, imperturbable, impracticable, incorrigible blockhead, on whom everything in the shape of argument is utterly wasted, and from whom all the arrows of wit and sarcasm fall harmless to the ground.
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That blockhead of a host!...
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A sensible child will discover with ease The point of the tale I've related-- A blockhead could not, let me say what I please-- Then why need my MORAL be stated?
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"Blockhead!" he added with emphasis, as Pasquale disappeared again and was presumably out of hearing.
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If GOD has not blessed you with the talent of rhyming, make use of my poor stock and welcome; let your verses run upon my feet: and for the utmost refuge of notorious blockheads, reduced to the last extremity of sense, turn my own lines upon me, and, in utter despair of your own satire, make me satirize myself.
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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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A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.
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From meaner minds though smaller fines content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dang'rous parts, he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep.
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"I didn't know your trousers were going," Peter suggested, and the Colonel answered curtly, "Who said they were, you blockhead?
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This was beyond what my patience in my present starved state could endure, so I got up and began to grope about for a stick or something to throw in the direction of the chattering blockhead; but he begged me to remain quiet, promising faithfully to make no more mention of the mussels.
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Since the world at my learning roars out in its choler, And the blockheads have fought me all round.
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Shall I say that you intend to publish pictures more or less skillfully drawn, for the purpose of convincing us that a man marries: From ambition--that is well known; From kindness, in order to deliver a girl from the tyranny of her mother; From rage, in order to disinherit his relations; From scorn of a faithless mistress; From weariness of a pleasant bachelor life; From folly, for each man always commits one; In consequence of a wager, which was the case with Lord Byron; From interest, which is almost always the case; From youthfulness on leaving college, like a blockhead; From ugliness,--fear of some day failing to secure a wife; Through Machiavelism, in order to be the heir of some old woman at an early date; From necessity, in order to secure the standing to _our_ son; From obligation, the damsel having shown herself weak; From passion, in order to become more surely cured of it; On account of a quarrel, in order to put an end to a lawsuit; From gratitude, by which he gives more than he has received; From goodness, which is the fate of doctrinaires; From the condition of a will when a dead uncle attaches his legacy to some girl, marriage with whom is the condition of succession; From custom, in imitation of his ancestors; From old age, in order to make an end of life; From _yatidi_, that is the hour of going to bed and signifies amongst the Turks all bodily needs; From religious zeal, like the Duke of Saint-Aignan, who did not wish to commit sin?
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Shall I say that you intend to publish pictures more or less skillfully drawn, for the purpose of convincing us that a man marries: From ambition--that is well known; From kindness, in order to deliver a girl from the tyranny of her mother; From rage, in order to disinherit his relations; From scorn of a faithless mistress; From weariness of a pleasant bachelor life; From folly, for each man always commits one; In consequence of a wager, which was the case with Lord Byron; From interest, which is almost always the case; From youthfulness on leaving college, like a blockhead; From ugliness,--fear of some day failing to secure a wife; Through Machiavelism, in order to be the heir of some old woman at an early date; From necessity, in order to secure the standing to _our_ son; From obligation, the damsel having shown herself weak; From passion, in order to become more surely cured of it; On account of a quarrel, in order to put an end to a lawsuit; From gratitude, by which he gives more than he has received; From goodness, which is the fate of doctrinaires; From the condition of a will when a dead uncle attaches his legacy to some girl, marriage with whom is the condition of succession; From custom, in imitation of his ancestors; From old age, in order to make an end of life; From _yatidi_, that is the hour of going to bed and signifies amongst the Turks all bodily needs; From religious zeal, like the Duke of Saint-Aignan, who did not wish to commit sin?
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Should he force one of them to consent, it was not unlikely she would call her husband a blockhead-a term almost certain to cause trouble in any family.
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The "association" was a plot to bring back that miserable blockhead and bigot, James II., said to be signed by Marlborough, the Bishop of Rochester, Lords Salisbury, Cornberry, and Sir Basil Firebrace.
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"Ay," was the reply, with an animation, which struck me with surprise, "as many as the blockheads in Berlin, and as stubborn as the rock under our feet, or the Aulic council."
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Stupid blockheads!
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The Indignation, perhaps, for being represented a _Blockhead_, may be as strong in Us as it is in the Ladies for a Reflexion on their _Beauties_.
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"I tell you, Bill," said he, "you are the biggest blockhead I ever saw.
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He began to be of Jem's opinion, that he had shown himself a blockhead, and resolved to act differently in future.
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It was but fair you should take the worth of your money; but you were too great a blockhead.
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_Mal._ Perhaps I have: (How right the blockhead hits!)
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So the _Phrygians_ in _Asia_, the _Abderitæ_ in _Thrace_, and _Boeotians_ in _Greece_, were notorious for dulmen and blockheads.
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Jean muttered "Blockhead!" under his breath.
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An old German friend of mine told me he had calculated that the Nicolai school turned out in ten years more complete, complacent blockheads than any other school in Germany had turned out in half-a-century; and my friend gave me many notable instances of men who had soon won the proud distinction of being unmistakable pupils of the Nicolai school.
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