| 单词 | blunderer |
| 例句 | A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The exhibition features British cartoons that depict the German emperor Wilhelm II and his son as helpless blunderers. WW1 show explores role of humour 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He’s now a comic blunderer who dispenses romantic advice, even though he doesn’t seem to have had much luck with it himself. At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z I used to think Brutus was the idealist in a world of realpolitik: Joseph excellently shows him to be a self-righteous blunderer. Julius Caesar – review 2012-06-07T00:13:00Z And at odd moments, Brown himself can seem an uncanny figure, a goblin, a blunderer making the blackest jokes, a horned and Satanic figure caught in a glance in a distant mirror. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z Their foul-ups are revisited, the field is winnowed, jokes are told and the No. 1 blunderer is chosen by the studio audience. Review: ‘Join or Die With Craig Ferguson’ — Historic Errors 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The cast of dolts and blunderers – Mrs Allen, Mr Collins, Mary Bennet, Miss Bates – is entertaining enough, though some of the comedy is inadvertent. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z It also explores his failings, as an FBI snitch during the 50s and a foreign policy blunderer whose machinations verged, on criminal. Tonight's TV highlights: Bible's Buried Secrets 2011-03-22T00:05:01Z So the incident goes viral, a mishap that makes the man look like a petulant blunderer. "His relationship with Harry, that's a film all by itself" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Together, they have created an alternate reality, recasting the Western bloc of allies as provokers, blunderers and liars, which has bolstered Putin. How Russia and right-wing Americans converged on war in Ukraine 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Even within the game, critical players at times looked like terrible blunderers, only to rebound. Perspective | The lasting lesson of this Super Bowl: Failure is necessary 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But even Trump, the business blunderer, should know that a gambler on a losing streak should quit before he pawns the gold watch that he inherited from his father. Declaring a national emergency over the wall? This won't end well for Trump | Walter Shapiro 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The blunderers at the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable bet all their chips on the GOP at the exact instant it stopped being their party. Time for a realignment 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Ah! blunderer that you were, what a strategic error you committed! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z You young blunderer!" he roared--"look at your work! Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z On the other hand, obviously the scribe may have been a considerable blunderer, and yet it may be clear that he was furnished with an admirable archetype. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z So I knew that if I refused the key I would seem a stupid blunderer to Maida. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z "I fancy your worthy master was correct when he described you as a blunderer," he said. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Then, perhaps, we get angry and curse the whole machine as the product of some stupid blunderer, thereby avoiding the confession of any mental obliquity on our own part. Beyond 2011-11-27T03:00:13.650Z None but blunderers fail to do so, if it is possible; and one cannot do so too thoroughly. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z This was the too great individualizing of one point in a character, and the making the man or woman nothing but a blunderer, a lover, a coxcomb, a tyrant and the like. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z She had heard of such enthralments—a blunderer had so tried to excuse, to explain to her, her brother Jack Oglander's crime. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z We must have no blunderers, though, for look you, some of these greenwood men have ears that can hear a twig break at two hundred paces. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z What can be bad enough for such sad blunderers? The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z It is lucky I opened credit to show these blunderers how to run their mill. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The invention of such irrelevant circumstances seems to be without a motive; and though the propagators of gossip are strange blunderers, they rarely aspire to be original 534 inventors. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z They had “made a mistake of principle, and not merely of policy,” acknowledged Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the board chairman, who was front and center among the blunderers. City Room: CUNY Tries to Recover From Kushner Stumble 2011-05-09T13:15:19Z He was the blunderer who entered the land whose social customs were unknown to him, in a year when the fabric by those social customs was in need of mending. Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed Attitude toward Jews, Catholics, Foreigners and Masons. Fraudulent Methods Used. Atrocities Committed in Name of Order. 2011-04-28T02:00:15.077Z Roger, I am a blunderer, a clumsy creature with not one of my elemental passions bound down yet into the decent listlessness of chains. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z You old meddling blunderer," he cried, "what a fine mess you've got yourself into with your rapid deductions, your startling and original theories! The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z He could not tolerate blunderers and fools; he had no patience with reformers, nor with sentimentalists; and very little with Emin Pasha, whom he came to regard as possessing the "mushy" qualities. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z But, as for a wretched beginner and blunderer to whom she has not yet given her little finger to kiss, no raftsman or woodsman in the mountains groans under such a load. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II And just as the player's score cannot be changed without simply abandoning the rules of the game, so too the coach's record as a blunderer is, in respect of this one bit of counsel, unalterable. The Sources Of Religious Insight They almost deter the poor blunderer in London from ever trying to grow a rose or to talk about one. The New Gulliver and Other Stories He was quite as unconventional in his mode of thought, and quite as erratic and unbusinesslike as his famous nephew—"Veritable blunderers," as Lafcadio says, "in the ways of the world." Lafcadio Hearn Like all men he hated tears—but these especial tears in addition to disconcerting him made him feel a blunderer, a sorry fool. Shadows of Flames A Novel Tradesman there stands for scoundrel, as implicitly as with us an Irishman is a blunderer and a Scotchman a knave. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) But a second failure is unforgivable, men turn away from the blunderer in contempt. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Still a blunderer, I put the kittens out on the south piazza the second day to treat them to a bracing interlude of air and sunshine. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road The Spanish chroniclers were not liars nor blunderers,—any more than our own later pioneers who wrote gravely of the Indian King Philip, and the Indian King Powhatan, and the Indian Princess Pocahontas. The Spanish Pioneers You must be on your guard before people, you always were such an awful old blunderer. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The bear, though rash in his arrogance and rage, was no mere headlong blunderer. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Look at the blunderers and even downright crooks who are elected to World Government. Brink of Madness So we all jog on in the old routine, vaguely conscious that we are all blunderers, but indisposed for such a drastic remedy as would alone cure us. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June And he turned his back upon this stupid blunderer, even though Cleek was profuse in his apologies, and looked as sorry as he declared. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Falling in love is an eminently impractical piece of business, and yet Nature—who is 39 no blunderer—generally introduces the boy and girl into active adult life by this very door. Maids Wives and Bachelors I've got a permit from your vulgar blunderers at Washington to go through your so-called lines to Richmond, as that's the only place where one can find anything like gentlemen in this blawsted country. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 But to correct that friendly blunderer were to write an autobiography.—And so now, with many thanks, believe me yours sincerely, Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) "I know very well that Madam Shaw will refuse to sing her part with a background of such blunderers!" exclaimed Professor Ware, bitterly, at the last. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in But you came, you dear old blunderer; and when I looked up and recognized you—well, let it pass! Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories It is true that certain blunderers treat this with indifference and contempt, thinking it much better to follow the ordinary usage of each day. St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music No two eyes had seen half so quickly as Hannah and "little sister's" who the blunderer was. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children The fine, or rather the naughty gentleman, in your Pamela, to whom Mr. Fielding very properly gives the sirname of Booby, is indeed one of the greatest bubbles, and blunderers that one can meet withal. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) The Prussian, therefore, in diplomacy is a blunderer and a bully. German Problems and Personalities What wretched blunderers In this great art, but what a master thou! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature “God forgive you!” was my only comment, and I turned my back upon the blunderer. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) But one cannot allow business to suffer on account of an inveterate blunderer, even though the blunderer wear wings and has endeared himself to the family. The Hound of Heaven The Japanese gave another of his subtle smiles—those peculiar smiles of the Oriental which make the keenest-witted man of the West feel that he is little better than a blunderer. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War No mere blunderer could have stirred the depths of the House of Commons as from time to time he did. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly She left the dining-car, and he sat down and cursed himself for a brute and a blunderer. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards What sort of blunderer do you take me to be? A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs He had forgotten what anxiety felt like because the world was so peopled with blunderers and timid fools full of hatred. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court “You fool, you muddle-headed blunderer!” he exclaimed, with a string of oaths. In the Shadow of the Hills I tell you, Bill, that for men trained to smelling things out, they’re blunderers. The Law-Breakers And consequent misguiding of the student.is anything more than a novice, blunderer and trickster in chiaroscuro. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Happily for the blunderer, Mrs. Jabe’s rage was so unbridled that she really tried to hit the object of it. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Broadhurst, who but a second before had been credited with putting the driving force into Harvard's great attack, was now roundly censured as the blunderer who had blown the golden opportunity. Interference and Other Football Stories Strange and far-fetched questions, from beginners at the law or from old blunderers, provoke now laughter, and now the peremptory protestations of the court against the waste of time. Dr. Sevier “I wish you weren’t such a blunderer, Bill,” he said, and his manner had become peevishly gentle. The Law-Breakers Oh American people! to depend upon such inveterate blunderers! Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Her trail being well marked and with her scent strong upon it, she knew it could be no ignorant blunderer that drew near. Kings in Exile Either Sir W. Hamilton, instead of being a great philosopher, is the veriest blunderer that ever put pen to paper, or the blunders are Mr. Mill’s own. The Philosophy of the Conditioned Their ceremonies in connection with anniversaries and family events bristle with convention, and offer pitfalls at every step to the stranger or the blunderer. Home Life in Germany I’m aware that I’m a hopeless blunderer in love. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London Because she does not know what the real reason is—conscience makes blunderers of us all. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete That had been a part of Gaston's plan—he was a blunderer born, and this precious project was worthy of him. A Little Tour of France I knew myself to be a sad blunderer in the art of love, and wondered if my words were too blunt and abrupt. The Seven Secrets If there were not so many easy-going blunderers of your sort, there would be less occasion to complain of the law's delays and hesitations for which the law itself is not responsible. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux “You must think we’re blunderers, if you contemplate that!” and he grinned at his companion. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London “I am a blunderer who has taken up a contract that’s too big for him,” Grant said gravely. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter So saying, the well-meaning blunderer released her victim, with the view of allowing Nelly a chance to express her gratitude, and, for the first time, caught sight of his face. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Coarse, gritty, and sandy papers are fit only for blotters and blunderers; no good draughtsman would lay a line on them. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing “You will think I am a sad blunderer to bring you tramping through the night.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 And he, poor fool of a blunderer, with the best intentions in the world, he had gone at once to the Calabrian’s apartment! The Place of Honeymoons He will exhibit a degree of tact for one calling, while he may be a blunderer at almost anything else. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. Tom went away feeling that he was a blunderer. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim To violate one of these practical rules is to be a blunderer, and blundering is a subject for jest rather than bitter denouncement. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes There are, in fact, in all love matters, certain moments of intoxication, when men, ordinarily sensible, become blunderers. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 "This is the one thing I would never have dreamed—that a man could sleep, and wake up in a starship, and find the starship manned by blunderers." The Stars, My Brothers No two eyes had seen half so quickly as Hannah and Little Sister's who the blunderer was. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories The General Staff is the most incompetent set of blunderers ever to wear military uniform since Bull Run. Greener Than You Think What I have endured in these eight years—the isolation of mind and inadequacy of body—have been a blunderer's reward visited upon his victim as a further injury. The Short Life It is too delicate a matter for others to butt in on, for some blunderer might offend another country and get us into war just through being stupid. Walter and the Wireless And that his failure to make this point clear might lead to a serious misapprehension on Persis' part, failed to present itself as a possibility to the honest blunderer. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale His eyes sent out flashes of lightning at the innocent little blunderer, but Marie’s eyes shone; her face was one beam of tender amusement. The Love Affairs of Pixie At last the blunderers have given me active duty. Greener Than You Think Is it liberty still, when it is the prerogative of criminals or heedless blunderers? The Simple Life Instead of being a hero he had again become a mere duffer, a blunderer, had played the fool. Walter and the Wireless The thing was clearing somewhat in Crowley’s direction; the blunderer had not lied on one point at least—the point that Mern found most blindly puzzling. Joan of Arc of the North Woods A genuine,—but I'm an egregious idiot,—a blanked blunderer. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day To write a history of the Grass would at least afford me an escape from the daily irritation of concerning myself exclusively with the incompetents and blunderers. Greener Than You Think For often a blunderer caught red-handed escapes with slight punishment, while the clever man who transgresses, yet conceals his transgression craftily, pays at the end of a devious sequence with his life. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life He was always a blunderer and were he to go messing about with electrical currents I should not have a happy moment. Walter and the Wireless Every blunderer ambitious of success in fabricating old writings is sure to have recourse to this trick, which serves for his immediate detection. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Hear that dreary blunderer, who has unwittingly contradicted what his chief has just asserted—"trumping," as it were, "his partner's trick." Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General The Federalist party now ran straight toward defeat; for, while the leaders could not avoid supporting Adams for a second term, they hated him as a blunderer and marplot. The Wars Between England and America Blundering and falsehood become intolerable to the blunderers; they must return to thought, and that is proper in a single direction, is approached by ten thousand avenues toward the One. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Elsie and Nan blushed in sympathy for her confusion, and Chrissie from sheer rage and irritation, and longing to take the big, blind blunderer by the shoulder and administer a good shaking. A Houseful of Girls It’s wonderful that he is as civil to me as he is; he has put me down as a hopeless blunderer!” Big Game A Story for Girls Jeffreys was still a blunderer, or else his conscience was unusually sensitive. A Dog with a Bad Name Ah, the folly of the man to trust such a missive to this thick-headed blunderer! Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess He probably considered that so stupid a blunderer as I deserved no better fate than to be used as a decoy. The Blunders of a Bashful Man Failing in this, we shall at best be but blunderers intellectually, handicapped because we failed to make proper use of habit in our development. The Mind and Its Education No more! no more! it is a bitter cheat, the consolation of blunderers, the last refuge of expiring hopes, the forlorn battalion that is to capture the citadel of happiness; yet, yet impregnable! The Young Duke Boswell, vexed by the greater intimacy of Goldsmith with Johnson, called him a blunderer, a feather-brained person; and described his appearance in no flattering terms. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series Headlong he had always been, plunging ever into deep waters that were not over clear, but he could not recall the time he had been a greater blunderer. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Beside such an expert Bob, floundering in his first real love affair, felt but a blunderer. Flood Tide Fay had often alluded to the larger sex en bloc as blunderers since the night she had told Michael to stand behind the screen. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron It is possible for a man born blunderer, unbending and violent, being stricken with apoplexy in his old age, to become a foolish, tearful child, timid and peaceable. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary He knew his Charlotte better than the police did; and, besides that, during the past week he had quite made up his mind that the Prefect of Police was in some matters a blunderer. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Now and then we meet with an exceptional blunderer; but for the most part Christian writers will compare not unfavourably with their heathen contemporaries. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" A miserable blunderer, coming in blind; coming out blind; and leaving ruin and worse than hell. Romance "There are two blunderers coming towards us now," said Magdalen, as the distant figures of Colonel Bellairs and Wentworth appeared in the beech avenue. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Circumspection has no part in her affairs, nor caution, nor practicality; nor does her eye linger upon the dullard and the blunderer. Hearts and Masks I'm not going to ask who because I'm the chief blunderer myself, for neglecting to check you over, at every loading. The Enchanted Canyon Do you know that you have behaved in this affair like a young inexperienced man, or, to speak out, like a blunderer? Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Three-fourths of mankind are mere blunderers, and the more you know of them the more you will be of my opinion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 The Whigs abuse him; however, he never left them, and such blunderers deserve neither credit nor compassion. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals I imagine you're a blunderer anyway," he added impudently; "your fingers are too thick. Diane of the Green Van But we are awakening at last, and we have a man to look to who is no blunderer. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America The difference between a fool and a blunderer," he said contritely, "is that the blunderer is always sorry for his mistakes. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Mamercus, who felt within himself that he, by his oversight, had been the chief blunderer, to vent his vexation smote Falto so sound a cuff that the under villicus sprawled his full length. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Not as weak-willed blunderers have we undertaken the fearful risk of this war. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Or rather Mr. Britling became all that vast succession of blunderers. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Add lastly, that you must revise all my figures, as I am a hopeless blunderer, and quite lately made a brilliant mistake in regard to the amount of 9 multiplied by 12. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Now I was more Christian in my conclusions; I set you down as an honest blunderer. Ester Ried He was angry with him for being a blunderer, an elephant, for being so easily amenable to Lady Cynthia's intrigues, for being so good-natured, stupid and gullible. Kimono A blunderer would have destroyed or hidden it, thereby warning Garcia that he was being looked after, and causing him to be more careful about his hiding places. Overland Should the two bundles not correspond, a chest is missing somewhere, and woe betide the blunderer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A coarse butchery—a wholesale slaughter was received by this association with raptures; a pale-eyed, orange-haired blunderer, with a ship carpenter's mallet hidden under his coat, was hailed as an artist. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator But four months later he was lamenting Washington's "fatal indecision," and by inference was calling him "a blunderer." The True George Washington [10th Ed.] "He is a bit of a fool, and a good deal of a blunderer." Kimono Was he a social blunderer, and weren't a Virginia gentleman's manners to be trusted in England without leading-strings? O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 The small lady gave the blunderer a grave, brief, now-you-have-done-it glance and looked down. Kincaid's Battery He classes himself as one of the blunderers he would portray, as having the faults and foibles he finds in others. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Look at the characters in the Bible, "resisting unto blood, striving against sin"; what blunderers they were to do that!… The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss It was indeed a fatal day for Mr. Jeffrey, when he degraded both himself and his original coadjutors, by taking into pay such an unprincipled blunderer as Hazlitt. Famous Reviews You are merely an inconsiderate blunderer, to say no more. The Girl at Cobhurst The Bench was nothing to me but an insensible blunderer. David Copperfield But to correct that friendly blunderer were to write an autobiography. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 But when he came home on the afternoon before the housewarming he found himself a slave, an intruder, a blunderer. Main Street These are mostly too common to be amusing, but sometimes the blunderers manage to hit upon something which is rather comic. Literary Blunders Summoned to town by the arrival in England of her husband's mother, she left without giving Darrow the chance he had counted on, and he cursed himself for a dilatory blunderer. The Reef Everybody laughed at the blunderer, the joker jeering audibly. The Octopus : A story of California A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck's misdeed. The Call of the Wild She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies. Middlemarch Most wars of this type are destructive of military reputations; the general is fortunate who can emerge as the least incapable of the host of blunderers. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate Why, one notorious for blunders; where finding blanks only instead of proper names, these blunderers filled them up at their pleasure. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Lord Orford particularly admires this bull, because in the confusion of the blunderer's ideas he is not clear even of his personal identity. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Then the discomfited experimenter told herself that she was a blunderer. Ester Ried Yet Speaking There are many blunderers in the fraternity, but there are also many experienced hands, who do a great deal of damage, and give a world of trouble to the authorities. The Secrets of the Great City This only is remembered: this only mounts, like an ethereal spirit, to hallow the finished-with blunderer's renown, and reverently to enshrine his body's resting-place. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes If you are nothing but a blunderer you will spoil everything. The Heavenly Twins In conversation, Englishmen are permitted sometimes to blunder, but without ever being called blunderers. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 De Casimir made a gesture of anger and seemed to be mentally assigning a punishment to some blunderer. Barlasch of the Guard King Philip was a stern master, pitiless to blunderers, and Don Rodrigo knew he never would be forgiven did he suffer that precious letter to be destroyed. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Mary, knowing now that the Scotchman was not the slow-witted blunderer he had appeared on board ship, looked at him with sudden suspicion. The Nest Builder He pulled the tail of Clive's coat, when that unlucky young blunderer was about to trouble his cousin with indiscreet questions or explanations, and checked his talk. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family But do not let me interrupt my country's defence, gentlemen; I am heartily glad to find Irish blunderers may shelter themselves in such good company in the ancient sanctuary of the hyperbole. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Mr. Halstead said that the episode rankled in the blunderers after they had elected their pride President. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form The old blunderer began to realize that he had overstepped the limits of decorum. The Idol of Paris When a word is missed, the blunderer has to sit down, and be a spectator only for the rest of the evening. The Best American Humorous Short Stories Mowbray and Tourville, the two greatest blunderers of the four, I allow to be acquainted with the widow and nieces, from the knowledge they had of the colonel. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 Now there is little danger that the Irish should be cured of their brogue; and consequently there is no great reason to apprehend that we should cease to think or call them blunderers. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 His excellency, Prince Boris, evidently did not wish, or had no time, to bother with blunderers; if they got in his way so much the worse for them. A Man and His Money Cospetto! am I a fool? a blunderer? if so, why does the Senate employ me? the girl is out of hearing, and there let her stay. The Bravo The big blunderer did not even beg my pardon!” An Antarctic Mystery For the moment he had absolutely no use for this well-meaning blunderer. The Sowers But to compensate for this disappointment we have devised a syllogism, which some people may prefer to an à priori argument, to prove irrefragably, that the Irish are blunderers. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 The former without the latter makes the impracticable blunderer; the latter without the former makes the time-serving schemer; the two together make the wise ruler of men. Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. "Oh, no," I replied, with a short, grim laugh; "if it were only a pestilence—I fear I disturbed your nap; but you know I'm a born blunderer." A Day of Fate Conscientious cranks and blunderers are perhaps even more of a nuisance than out-and-out villains; they hurt every good cause they espouse and bring noble ideals into ridicule; they provoke discouragement and cynicism. Problems of Conduct A blunderer whose incantation had brought the spirit up to face me, I stared at him helplessly, nor could I find words to answer or control the passion that my imbecile scolding had evoked. The Guest of Quesnay Your father, himself, told me, that I... well, yes... in portrait-painting, he too thinks I am no blunderer. A Word, Only a Word — Complete Your father, himself, told me, that I…..well, yes….in portrait-painting, he too thinks I am no blunderer. A Word, Only a Word — Volume 03 I groaned; "I'm the champion blunderer of the world." A Day of Fate A blunderer was Choerilus; and yet This blunderer was Alexander's pet, And for the ill-stamped lines that left his mint Received good money with the royal print. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry There was something so glad and different in his look that—like any other dried-up old blunderer in my place—I felt an instant tendency to laugh. The Guest of Quesnay Do you think I am a boy to be bamboozled by every bogey a blunderer may try to conjure up? The Beetle Skinny Thompson, his hand on his gun, seemed paralyzed; his mouth was open to frame a reply that never was uttered and he stared through narrowed eyelids at the blunderer. Bar-20 Days I despise blunderers and women who are afraid of what they do. In the Wilderness This made him unintelligible to the average man, unforgivable to the fanatic and a god to the blunderer. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One I know, in the depth of my heart, that I am an absolute blunderer. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 No blunderer could have successfully encountered such troops as those of Napoleon, and under such a leader. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion I, a rough blunderer, do more than blow out the lamp: I throw away the wick and all is over. More Hunting Wasps Blunders and blunderers 149:3 Mind as far outweighs drugs in the cure of disease as in the cure of sin. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures They had believed in the supreme military genius of their war lords, and the war lords, blunderers as well as criminals, had led them to the abyss and dropped them over. Now It Can Be Told Nor did he enter the room and surprise his wife as a blunderer would have done, but went back to his chamber as silently as he had left it. A Group of Noble Dames "There is the peril that the new master will abandon the blunderer for the insult, and there is the peril that the old one will destroy him for the sacrilege!" The Sleuth of St. James's Square She suborned one of our men to bear a letter to Paris for her, and in answer to it the Queen sent a hot-headed, rash blunderer down to Dauphiny to procure her liberation. Saint Martin's Summer He would entrust the most important of all posts to his tool, his spy, the wretched Maxwell, not a born Irishman, not a sincere Catholic, at best a blunderer, and too probably a traitor. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 All facilities for flight must then be placed within his reach; and care must be taken that he should not again be stopped by any officious blunderer. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 How could such a blunderer satisfy the diplomatic requirements of the vain and petty Kaiser? Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography I should like to know, if you wouldn't mind telling me, what you detect of the blunderer in him. David Elginbrod "Rabecque," he said with a pathetic grimness, "I think I am the most cursed blunderer that ever was entrusted with an errand." Saint Martin's Summer This had been a part of Gaston's plan, - he was a blunderer born, and this precious project was worthy of him. A Little Tour in France Though they felt the necessity of rigorous measures, they nevertheless treated as blunderers the officials who were compelled to employ them, and dismissed them on the first pretence. Sons of the Soil We have let the blunderers and the waves Divide us, and the devil had sport. Poems — Volume 2 As he again heavily cursed the blunderer, the others murmured to each other various I told you so's. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains "God forgive you!" was my only comment, and I turned my back upon the blunderer. The Wrecker The blunderers and the waves no more Shall sever kindred sending forth Their worthiest from shore to shore For welcome, bent to prove their worth. Poems — Volume 2 If Shorty was the blunderer, then certainly Trampas was the other man; for the two were as inseparable as don and master. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains |
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