| 单词 | thick-skulled |
| 例句 | “You know,” she said quietly, “my husband has a very hard head. He’s stubborn and thick-skulled.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He was hunched up in his chair, his thick-skulled, heavy head hung forward. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the practice likely is infrequent, it would help to more easily take down the huge, thick-skulled animals. In Case You Missed It 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z We were suckers for the shovel merchants, who were much cleverer than the thick-skulled “innovators” who did all the work while trading away the rewards. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In one of his most memorable movie roles, as the thick-skulled cowpoke Mongo in the 1974 comedy “Blazing Saddles,” Karras said, “Mongo only pawn in game of life.” Alex Karras Played Role of League Outlaw for Lions 2012-10-13T18:20:44Z A Titan had thrown mountains of irony upon the heads of a thick-skulled generation of vipers. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The devil cannot hold him; now will this thick-skulled master of mine tell the whole story to his rival! Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z The common class of readers, and more especially of spectators, are thick-skulled enough, and can hardly comprehend what they see and hear, unless they are hemmed in, and guided to the sense at every turn. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z That thick-skulled brute we met in Newport, and afterwards in New York.” The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Having white blood in her veins, Sal had an imagination far beyond her dull, thick-skulled people. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z They were certainly not marked by any special attractions, but were little well-fed, thick-skulled creatures with yellow locks, seeming to take after their mother in things essential. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, Neanderthals — a hulking, thick-skulled species closely related to us — vanished from the Earth, leaving us the last humans standing. 2010-01-11T19:40:00Z Or you, you great, thick-skulled oaf of Geneva, or the Sorbonnist with the bald head and the eyes that look and see nothing? The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion They, however, had seen us change position, and, though they be thick-skulled knaves, they did divine our object, ere our plan was carried out. With Ring of Shield Only a thick-skulled schoolboy would take such an unsocial attitude! Adolescents Only What do I care, I ask again, for these thick-skulled Suabians? A Captive of the Roman Eagles He betrays his relation to what is below him—thick-skulled, small-brained, fishy, quadrumanous—quadruped ill-disguised, hardly escaped into biped, and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse It struck in a nasty place, but being, as my old Latin coach said, awfully thick-skulled, the pommel of the tulwar didn’t break through. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills “Well, you are a thick-skulled one, Pete, not to know your own name.” Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal They thought and fought in masses, had little individuality, and were thick-skulled; but they were persevering and had their hearts in the cause. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War First, I wish to add that your dear friend is both thick-skulled and cowardly. The Lure of the Mask “These grey-beards must be thick-skulled, then,” replied the prince with a smile, “for does not the victor retain the land which he has conquered?” The Hot Swamp And the whole intolerable situation arises," he broke out with a sudden inflection of wrath, "from inert, thick-skulled bigotry. The Tyranny of Weakness They sent word that the thick-skulled Poles and the rest had made an awful mess of the ballots. The Henchman From this incident I discovered that even a thick-skulled, dull-witted German infantryman has a bump of humour. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben This downright fighting fool, this thick-skulled hero, This blunt unthinking instrument of death, With plain dull virtue has out-gone my wit. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Dumnorix is a thick-skulled knave, who is, after all, good for little but blows. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. A Bourbon, thick-skulled, sordid, worn-out, again sat upon the throne, while the Great Man languished on a rock in the Atlantic. A Splendid Hazard The sister of two French kings, and sister-in-law of the Duke of Lorraine, was a person for even the thick-skulled Walloons to respect. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Thou thick-skulled Crane! that King of thine is a goose—a web-footed lord of littleness—and thou art but a frog in a well to bid us serve him—- him forsooth!— Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala O, let me teach you!"—"You never can; I was too thick-skulled to learn even at school. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II "My honest but thick-skulled friend, let me put in my oar," implored the Major. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Chalmers rails at him for being "a thick-skulled Englishman," for being "fine, polished," etc. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The old fellow is not, after all, so thick-skulled as I thought him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917 You—who like all thick-skulled reformers, can never perceive what goes on under your own nose! Temporal Power Vagellius is careful, studious, and obliging, but withal a little thick-skulled; he has not a single client, but might have had abundance of customers. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children That thick-skulled Hun at Cumae easily let himself be blinded, as I told you.' Veranilda "Why, this is well enough, Sir Robert!" said Glossin, "I suppose he would bring forward this thick-skulled fellow to give his oath of credulity, Sir Robert, ha, ha, ha!" Guy Mannering What a quandary for a thick-skulled old horseman! Wildfire This downright fighting fool, this thick-skulled hero, This blunt, unthinking instrument of death, With plain dull virtue has outgone my wit. All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy You had a champion, Jane, an' never fear that those thick-skulled men don't know you now. Riders of the Purple Sage Why, you thick-skulled rascal, I tell you the farce is done, and I will be mad no longer. Love for Love: a Comedy |
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