The 3,274 occurrences of blockhead

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Mayakin smacked his lips and sang out in a mournful voice: "What a blockhead you are!

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So it comes out that an oak is simply a blockhead."

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The old blockhead should have thought--'what is the machine made of?'

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In order to study, and not die of starvation, I have for six years in succession taught blockheads how to read and write, and had to bear a mass of abominations at the hands of various papas and mammas, who humiliated me without any constraint.

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And Yozhov, standing beside Foma, spoke excitedly: "You hard-hearted blockhead!

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Several persons have made suggestions and objections as yours about the hands being held up in astonishment; 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 dare say you will say that I am an obstinate old blockhead.

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what blockheads have we been to worship any but you.--THAT a goddess?--a pretty goddess forsooth;--a witch, rather, who, for a while, kept our gracious monarch blind!

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"Mistress Mary," in her pretty blue dress, tripped along with "Simple Simon" staring about him like a blockhead.

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Remember that, and don't visit the sins of one blockhead on all the rest of mankind," said Tom, laughing at her earnestness.

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The wooden population stood and stared at the destruction like blockheads, as they were, till they also caught and blazed away without a cry.

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There were several satires and panegyrics handed about in an acrostic, by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts, and to set up for polite authors.

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The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram, though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead.

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He then repeated my words with an air of burlesque; peals of laughter followed, and I there stood, in their eyes, the picture of a convicted blockhead.

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The block where we usually did business was one of the best, but I hated him so violently that I finally moved my push-cart to a less desirable locality I came home in despair "Oh, it takes a blockhead to make a success of it," I complained to Mrs. Dienstog "Why, why," she consoled me, "it is a sin to be grumbling like that.

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"You're a nuisance, Levinsky," was his final retort I was tempted to say, "And you are a blockhead."

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At the bottom of my heart I had a conviction that one who had not studied the Talmud could not be anything but a blockhead The first thing he did the next evening was to take up the same subject with me, the rest of the class watching the two of us curiously.

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Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart."

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Lourdain: blockhead.

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'Shut your mouth, you pitiful blockhead; I'll teach you genteeler manners than to persecute a young woman in that way!' and taking Festus by the ear, he gave it a good pull.

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Father,' he added impetuously, 'Bob is a worthless blockhead!

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She would sit and listen and smile, but of course understood not a word of it all, and as soon as Peer discovered this he would get perfectly furious, and call her a little blockhead.

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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

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After supper, I drew a most affecting picture of my position, shewing that I should be in need of everything until my arrival at Rome, where I was going, I said, to fill the post of secretary of memorials, and my astonishment may be imagined when I saw the blockhead delighted at the recital of my misfortunes.

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I could very well understand that my colleague, Sanzonio, should not complain of such treatment, because he was a blockhead, but I did not feel disposed to allow myself to be put on a par with him.

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The whole imposture would soon have been discovered if anyone had possessed a peerage, but it just happened that there was not a copy in Corfu, and the French consul, a fat blockhead, like many other consuls, knew nothing of family trees.

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Our chief, a noble Venetian belonging to the Balbi family, said to us, "It would be a good joke to carry off those three blockheads, and to keep the pretty woman in our possession."

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Esther impatiently called her a blockhead, and entreated me to let her ask another question.

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In the meanwhile I bore as well as I could the poor figure he must be cutting before the officers at table, who, after hearing the insolence of this young blockhead, might take me for a coward.

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The young blockhead seemed taken aback and in his turn bit his lips, but his evil genius made him, strike in again at dessert.

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I had scarcely finished what I had to say when Master Blockhead said, with a laugh, that he knew Lolotte to be a good sort of girl, as he had slept with her at Paris.

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This young fellow took my fancy by his originality; he had probably assumed it to distinguish himself from the blockheads amongst whom he had hitherto lived, and now used it in perfect good faith with everybody.

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As for the Corticelli, she soon passed from tears to laughter, and would have done it well, but if, as I feared, the canon was a blockhead, I should have been degrading myself.

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Nobody wishes to be considered a fool or a blockhead, but clever women are not appreciated; and if a girl is witty or well educated she endeavors to hide her lights, at least if she desires to be married."

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"He made a mistake, for you are a blockhead."

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I had scarcely uttered the words, when the kindly blockhead rose and cried enthusiastically,-- "Parbleu!

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"The right of love, blockhead, and the right of luck, and the right of the strongest!

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"I assure you, blockhead.

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The fortunate governor presented himself, and the monarch, after honouring him with the title of blockhead, proceeded to scold him roundly.

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With these words I made my way out of the hall, and on turning my head round I saw that the two elderly men were keeping the young blockhead back.

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I knew that I should be drawn into the dispute, and was making up my mind to do my duty without mercy, when the Count de l'Etoile came in and said,-- "This blockhead does not understand what I say to him; but as he may have right on his side, I must ask you to give him two sequins.

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I could very well understand that my colleague, Sanzonio, should not complain of such treatment, because he was a blockhead, but I did not feel disposed to allow myself to be put on a par with him.

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Our chief, a noble Venetian belonging to the Balbi family, said to us, "It would be a good joke to carry off those three blockheads, and to keep the pretty woman in our possession."

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Esther impatiently called her a blockhead, and entreated me to let her ask another question.

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In the meanwhile I bore as well as I could the poor figure he must be cutting before the officers at table, who, after hearing the insolence of this young blockhead, might take me for a coward.

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The young blockhead seemed taken aback and in his turn bit his lips, but his evil genius made him, strike in again at dessert.

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I had scarcely finished what I had to say when Master Blockhead said, with a laugh, that he knew Lolotte to be a good sort of girl, as he had slept with her at Paris.

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As for the Corticelli, she soon passed from tears to laughter, and would have done it well, but if, as I feared, the canon was a blockhead, I should have been degrading myself.

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"He made a mistake, for you are a blockhead."

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I had scarcely uttered the words, when the kindly blockhead rose and cried enthusiastically,-- "Parbleu!

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"The right of love, blockhead, and the right of luck, and the right of the strongest!

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"I assure you, blockhead.

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The fortunate governor presented himself, and the monarch, after honouring him with the title of blockhead, proceeded to scold him roundly.

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With these words I made my way out of the hall, and on turning my head round I saw that the two elderly men were keeping the young blockhead back.

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We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves."

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Richardson, who is very tenacious of the respect in which the profession ought to be held, tells a story of Michael Angelo, that after a quarrel between him and Pope Julius II., 'upon account of a slight the artist conceived the pontiff had put upon him, Michael Angelo was introduced by a bishop, who, thinking to serve the artist by it, made it an argument that the Pope should be reconciled to him, because men of his profession were commonly ignorant, and of no consequence otherwise; his holiness, enraged at the bishop, struck him with his staff, and told him, it was he that was the blockhead, and affronted the man himself would not offend: the prelate was driven out of the chamber, and Michael Angelo had the Pope's benediction, accompanied with presents.

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By this method you neutralise all distinction of character--make a pedant of the blockhead and a drudge of the man of genius.

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If he were a mere blockhead, it would not signify; but he thinks himself a _knowing hand,_ according to the notions and practices of those with whom he was brought up, and which he thinks _the go_ everywhere.

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When a visitor enters or leaves a room, it is not inquired whether he is rich or poor, whether he lives in a garret or a palace, or comes in his own or a hackney coach, but whether he has a good expression of countenance, with an unaffected manner, and whether he is a man of understanding or a blockhead.

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This is true enough; but you must not say so, under a heavy penalty--the displeasure of pedants and blockheads.

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Yet you may remember, replied Theon, how you told them that Colotes himself, compared with the rhetoric of those two gentlemen, would appear the complaisantest man alive; for when they have raked together the lewdest terms of ignominy the tongue of man ever used, as buffooneries, trollings, arrogancies, whorings, assassinations, whining counterfeits, black-guards, and blockheads, they faintly throw them in the faces of Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Protagoras, Theophrastus, Heraclides, Hipparchus, and which not, even of the best and most celebrated authorities.

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Socrates therefore was not a fool or blockhead for seeking and searching what himself was; but they are rather to be thought shallow coxcombs, who inquire after any other thing before this, the knowledge of which is so necessary and so hard to find.

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"'Marat, you're a blockhead!' cries Trotzky.

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A bachelor who meets them owes them at least a kiss; and if he does not take more he is only a blockhead.

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A bachelor who meets them owes them at least a kiss; and if he does not take more he is only a blockhead.

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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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"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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Simply because a man lives in the country it does not follow that he is a blockhead.

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The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself: "Good God, what a blockhead that brother of mine is!

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But as the former was more to be dreaded, I secured stability to the fabric by a very curious contrivance: I ordered the architects to get the heads of some hundred numbskulls and blockheads, and fix them to the interior surface of the arch, at certain intervals, all the whole length, by which means the arch was held together firm, and its inclination to the earth eternally established; because of all the things in the world, the skulls of these kind of animals have a strange facility of tending to the centre of the earth.

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How he must smile to see a pack of blockheads like us, galloping about the world, and looking wise, and imagining we are finding out a good deal about it!

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How he must smile to see a pack of blockheads like us, galloping about the world, and looking wise, and imagining we are finding out a good deal about it!

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That blockhead will have the gendarmes about my ears.

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And one of you seek that blockhead of a coachman, who did not know enough to come back here and inform us.

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"And that blockhead of an Englishman has not tumbled yet!

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"Devil's name!" the Marshal burst forth, "why don't the blockheads shoot?

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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason: I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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Tired of standing up before a sea of dull faces, seeing the blockheads knock their silly hands one against the other!

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"You are a couple of blockheads," observed their gracious master.

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"Blockhead, that you cannot keep your thoughts on what you are doing!

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"Perhaps it would be wise to put off our visit until a day that there is a man at the door instead of a blockhead--" Randalin's arm was an iron barrier behind her.

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Blockhead.

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But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever have beggared the Hollander, should not take this time to break with the Hollander, and thereby pay his debt which must have been forgiven him, and have got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the world.

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They did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war; which is a strange act: but, I know not how, 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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And there I did discourse over to them their condition as to money; which they were all mightily as I could desire satisfied with, but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in our supplies of money; which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, I do and must admire.

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The Blockhead XLVI.

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The Blockhead XLVI.

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THE BLOCKHEAD We have stated that Marshal Simon occupied a small house in the Rue des Trois-Freres.

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The Blockhead XLVI.

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The Blockhead XLVI.

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THE BLOCKHEAD We have stated that Marshal Simon occupied a small house in the Rue des Trois-Freres.

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If a man accosts you, and talks to you ever so dully or frivolously, it is worse than rudeness, it is brutality, to show him, by a manifest inattention to what he says, that you think him a fool or a blockhead, and not worth hearing.

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Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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