| 单词 | dullard |
| 例句 | Rekh would think him a dullard, unfit to learn the goldsmith’s trade. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She could chide herself for her silly infatuation with a dullard. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We usually think of the moon as being quite bright, especially when it is full, but the moon is a dullard compared to the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The dullards These are the people who make Big Brother what it is – a TV show about some people sitting in a room doing hardly anything for weeks at a time. Back to Big Brother 2010-07-27T14:09:00Z These drugs don't turn dullards into super-achievers, and there's scant evidence that any IQ points are gained. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z A nation of pliable dullards ripe for the hacking. Sacha Baron Cohen reveals “Who Is America?” and the answer is terrifying 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z My best friend sometimes made fun of the dullard and sometimes defended her fiercely. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It is no small thing, and worth noting, that of these white men he is easily the best, not a dullard or a mook or a boy made good. Critic’s Notebook: American Idol Winner Phillip Phillips Is Known for His Modesty 2012-05-24T06:17:26Z "I refuse to let these big issues be in the hands of the dullards and the worthy people," she continues firmly. Saci Lloyd: 'It's not squids in outer space' 2011-07-15T14:20:22Z Their insistence on overt symmetry, especially the one with the Superman logo stuck in the middle, where it is supposed to go, makes it pretty obvious that Koons is a visual dullard. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z She stays up all night sewing a school-play costume for her younger son and still manages to solve complex cases that her dullard male colleagues shrug off. Television Review: It?s a Crime That Men Are So Lazy 2011-06-10T23:00:10Z Still, he played the lead role, or lead voice, in another blockbuster, “The Lego Movie,” as Emmet Brickowski, the normcore dullard with a heart of glee. Chris Pratt Is a Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Our mistake in viewing Greg as an adorable dullard eager to play "boar on the floor" is in neglecting to see that he's been grasping for money and power all this time. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s clear that the fortunes of Sugar and Agnes, each of whom is a more vibrant and worthwhile person than the dullard William, will somehow be joined. Television Review: ‘The Crimson Petal and the White,’ Encore Mini-Series 2012-09-10T02:29:04Z At times, both seem to adopt an us-against-the-world mentality – he thinks Congress is full of self-interested dullards, she thinks voters just don't understand the magnitude of his accomplishments – that is simultaneously tin-eared and appealing. 'The Obamas' a portrait of their life in D.C. 2012-01-09T15:37:00Z Of course there's plentiful humour at his expense, but there's also a limit to how many times we can find a dullard's dullness amusing. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z But our mistake in viewing Greg as an adorable dullard eager to play "boar on the floor" is in neglecting to see that he's been grasping for money and power all this time. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In one of Wharton’s most popular books, “The House of Mirth,” Lily Bart is a society beauty with expensive tastes who can either marry a rich dullard or the poor man she actually cares for. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z But the job was made more difficult by a BBC presenter branding listeners who complained as "dullard regulars" and by concerns about the way staff were treated and cuts in local news and information. Mark Forrest Show does little to calm fears over BBC local radio cuts 2013-01-29T07:21:13Z One of his favorite impressions was the white guy, whom he caricatured as a nebbish and a dullard, fumbling under the light weight of his unearned power. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Arriving just as the campy “Batman” was making a stir on TV, the original production spoofed the hero’s earnestness to the point of making him a dullard. Superman Musical Revived in Dallas 2010-07-02T08:18:00Z Marshall was the real thing: smart, funny, opinionated, a professional comedy connoisseur and someone who certainly represented a challenge to the industry’s dullard menfolk, who thought women were there to be pretty and nothing else. Penny Marshall: a Hollywood power player and comedy connoisseur 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Instead of viewing themselves as dullards not smart enough for college, they conclude that college is more challenging than they expected and they need to study harder. Books: "Redirect," and "Willpower" offers clues on rewriting life story 2011-11-07T15:17:03Z In articulating the flip side of a premise that is essentially flattering to the gloomy and even the unhinged, Dr. Ghaemi demonstrates remarkable powers of condescension toward his designated dullards. Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity 2011-08-10T21:05:51Z In a case of man who’d been accused of “repeatedly punching, kicking, strangling and pointing a loaded handgun at a girlfriend, Johnson has ridiculed the victim in open court, calling her ‘a dullard.’” A judge shares Akin’s belief that women’s bodies “shut down” rape 2012-12-14T16:42:00Z First there's some plot to be getting on with, some loose ends to be fashioned into a neat bow and a dead dullard to be eulogised by a tiny Scotswoman in a doily. Mistresses: series three, episode four 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In fact, the only two allowed to be sloppy are Hitchcock and Scully, although their crimes consist mainly of behaving like dullards. The good cops of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are a scathing critique of destructive policing 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z More perplexing was a chatty interior monologue from the perspective of Greta Garbo walking through Manhattan that renders the enigmatic actress a one-dimensional dullard. A Literary Catalog of Things Lost to History 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z This first novel opens with an absolute dullard of a first sentence: “Clara drove across the George Washington Bridge.” Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z To their eternal credit, viewers didn't warm to its wannabe WAGs and two-dimensional dullards. Is time up for scripted reality shows? 2012-02-08T15:20:11Z Nor are they why you are like your high-achieving or dullard parents, or their forebears. How to raise a brilliant child without screwing them up 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It's a world, for the most part, beyond the grasp of dullard officials. Beijing's comedy crackdown is hitting its music scene 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z They're not all that eager to jump to his defense: Most of them know he's a toxic, narcissistic dullard. Indictment watch, Week 2: A panel of experts on what gruesome damage Trump will wreak next 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In a podcast recording, Mr. Obama excoriated his Democratic Party for being boring, scolding dullards who are always eager to form a lynch mob to cancel enemies who say one wrong thing. The Chosen One returns: Obama back to save his Democrats 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Generating new Republican voters means cultivating a generation of mean-spirited dullards. What's the matter with SEL? Successful, well-adjusted adults are the GOP's kryptonite 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z I don't need to report this dullard's boring brutal assaults on the American psyche, thus spreading them. Donald Trump may finally face prosecution in the New Year: But the trauma won't end there 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Neanderthals were, she writes, “not dullard losers on a withered branch of the family tree, but enormously adaptable and even successful ancient relatives”. Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z She marries, or is married off to, a local dullard, and, if you’re aghast at her decision, you don’t know much about the rule of family law in conservative Catholic societies. “Bombshell” and the Perils of Topicality 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Only the most slow-witted dullards, or delusional contrarians, continue to embrace the theory of moon-landing fakery. Yes, we landed on the moon. If you don’t believe it, try telling an astronaut. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Each of the dullards recounted different stories which varied from day to day and were consistent only in their mendacity. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The team also wants to explore the model’s behavior by doing the equivalent of tethering two rowers together or dropping in one with a super memory among the dullards. Artificial "Dumbness" May Be a Solution for Engineering Smart Machines 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The London colleague said that Mallory would tell his superiors, “This is a bunch of dullards working for you.” A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Humans by comparison are slow dullards, unable to keep up, and the android is both frustrated and exasperated by its wards. Martha Wells’ Murderbot series is a fantastic story about what it means to be human 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Any full inventory of the 2018 contests includes losers exponentially more enticing than the dullards who trounced them. Opinion | Democrats’ Top-Secret Formula for Victory 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z He also made derogatory remarks about Somalia, Argentina and referred to "third world dullards", according to the newspaper. Australian cop quits over 'racist' posts 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Were the country kids all dullards, Nudd asked them, or was it only that they hadn’t been exposed to the same material? The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami’s wins 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a dullard’s game, strikeouts, power and little else. The Home Run Explosion Is Not Exactly Beyond Suspicion 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.” So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Oh, the shame of being outed as a dullard in a matching pair. Why we should all be afraid of Ivanka Trump's mismatched earrings 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There is a common assumption that dictionaries are put together by faceless dullards. The Nerds That Make English 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z I wrote about it timidly and like a dullard. Memories of Literary Paris 1972-03-03T05:00:00Z So much more important now than whether dullards profess their allegiance to women’s rights while refusing to listen to women is understanding who will get down on their knees to service the new man-child patriarchy. Patriarchy is the sea in which Trump and his sharks gather 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Shareholders deserve a fund firm’s best ideas, not to be stuck with its dullards; if a fund isn’t meritorious, management should kill it off. Fund disclosure, transparency all I want for Christmas 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In a world cut free from conventional rules, the charismatic leader uses bizarre, unprecedented symbols of power to undermine the dullards who cling to outworn expectations. The unholy power of that Farage-Trump buddy photo | Jonathan Jones 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z There are the bad choices — the abusive bosses, the angry ideologues and the sheer dullards. I told conservatives to work for Trump. One talk with his team changed my mind. 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z As soon as a dullard hears 'paint' , he thinks of toxins. Think Like a Doctor: The Painter’s Headaches Solved! 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Instead, just bringing in old dullards who show up every 3 or 4 games was decided to be preferable. Humiliation Is in the Air as Chelsea Routs Manchester United 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Don’t discover your inner dullard in the nick of time, when it could still do you some good. My debate nightmare? A duller Donald Trump 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z At the root of the problem is a deliberate distortion of black history, in which Africans are depicted as subhuman and African Americans as brutish, clownish and mentally dullard. Obama tells Howard students there’s no time like the present. But a look to the past couldn’t hurt. 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Every generation contains top-notch thinkers and doers and creators while simultaneously housing dullards, dimwits and jerks. I was wrong about millennials: I’m so sorry I believed the lazy — and wrong — media stereotypes 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But ever the dullard, I wanted to learn the basics: what is a gadget blog, anyway? What is a gadget blog, anyway? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “And there’s not a dullard in the bunch!” Growing Up Scalia: How the Late Supreme Court Justice Raised His Children 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Sure, they’re dullards, and dare I say, laggards — the kind of humans that might cause you to scream Luddites! at a LAN party. Amazon, not Apple or Google, holds the key to the smart home 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z How do you dramatize dullards, weaklings, and nincompoops and not wind up with a movie theatre full of gentle snoring? Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z For all of the above is well known in Indian policy making circles, they’re none of them dullards. India Threatens To Derail WTO Deal Over Public Stockholding Of Food; A Policy It Should Change Anyway 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z On the surface, it would seem that we’re a nation of math dullards; simply no good at the subject. Motherlode Blog: Research on Children and Math: Underestimated and Unchallenged 2014-04-03T14:30:32Z Though tight and well-played, the game was a bit of a dullard, played before Russians who months ago thought they were buying tickets to see their beloved national team. U.S. hockey team would like to get past the ‘Miracle,’ but it’s a memory worth cherishing 2014-02-21T22:54:53Z The new study adds to evidence suggesting that alligators, crocodiles and other reptiles are highly social, clever animals, not the plodding dullards of their image. Crocodiles and their ilk may be smarter than they look 2013-12-09T21:17:59Z This perception that Samsung is something of a dullard may actually serve work in its favor. 4 Reasons Samsung Should Lose The Innovation Inferiority Complex 2013-08-20T18:52:00Z Of course if there's one thing that's more boring than the Brit Awards, it's that tedious drone generated by dullards like us complaining about how boring they are. Football transfer rumours: Maxime Gonalons and Angelo Ogbonna to Arsenal? 2013-02-21T09:23:13Z I don't mean to get too nuanced here, but that always feels like something only a weirdo dullard would say. Danica Patrick's pole at Daytona 500 puts a few more noses out of joint 2013-02-20T13:10:46Z Forgive me if I don't take a hypocritical, mendacious dullard such as yourself too seriously when complain about 'name-calling' and then call a person a coward in the same sentence. Guns: Your Brain in a Shootout 2013-01-17T06:40:00Z And wrong because it was carefully, cynically manufactured to get dullards hot under the collar – and lefty writers like me waffling on about precisely how wrong it is on Comment is free. Naughty nuns mislead in the Hitman: Absolution trailer 2012-06-01T14:01:53Z If he failed in the traditional subjects, he was branded as a dullard and crowded out of the school, although in respect to some other untested activities he may have been a slumbering genius. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z He entered the palace of the Luxembourg on that memorable day without any repute but that of a dullard and a sensualist; he came out of it a recognized orator. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The sleepy dullard, who is kept at school until fourteen, could be freed from discipline at an earlier age, with less risk of serious harm. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Forgive me if I don't take a hypocritical, mendacious dullard such as yourself too seriously when complain about 'name-calling' and then call a person a coward in the same sentence. Guns: Your Brain in a Shootout 2013-01-17T06:40:00Z A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z So, there is little need of being worried over the thought that the boy is a natural-born dullard, without native ability to learn and finally to make his way in the world. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z They must be no dullards nor simpletons, who would enter into the Divine Master’s plans; no triflers, no creatures of sentiment and impulse, who are to be the agents of His will. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z On the arena of political democracy, their lower level of political consciousness afforded the possibility of their being deceived by adventurers, swindlers, middle-class cheats, and honest dullards who really deceived themselves. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z He whose words had opened her eyes to their grim purpose was a dullard, almost an imbecile. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Who would be anything, in a word, except the empty-headed man of pleasure, or the plain dullard satisfied to sit in a corner with a little. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Knave was mildly surprised that the dog he had looked on as a dullard and a poltroon should have developed a flash of spirit. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Or hope to rouse some Coptic dullard, hid Ages ago, wrapt stiffly, fold on fold, With cerements close, to wither in the cold Forever hushed, and sunless pyramid! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z During the Egyptian uprising the advantage was clearly on the side of the dissidents, since the Egyptian secret police were digital dullards. Schumpeter: Too much buzz 2011-12-28T16:03:35Z Genius at oars, and dullards at the helm! Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z Always immaculately dressed and booted and gloved, he was a dullard in studies, a braggart in everything, and a success in nothing. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z After hours of dullard, rasper, ranter, Sweet an interlude of Balfour's banter! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z Reflective thought is consecutive, not merely a sequence In this sense, silly folk and dullards think. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z An ill-balanced, faulty environment penalized the superior strains and favored the inferior types; while, conversely, the impoverishing race-stocks, drained of their geniuses and overloading with dullards and degenerates, were increasingly unable to evolve environmental remedies. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z You dullards, couldn't I have told you it was the Dutch Doctor,—if your fright had left you but a handful of sense to ask a question? Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z The company of Anglomaniacs to which she invites our attention are not dullards, nor are they cads, even though an ill-natured philosopher might be moved to call them snobs. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Why is it, The dullard who nor loves nor lives poaches your kisses? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Every man knows Grand hath escaped hence by sea, and yet the stupid dullards hunt after him here, both by day and night. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z Not only am I a scruffy, smelly hostage, I'm a dullard as well. What is it like to be kidnapped in Somalia? 2011-06-29T10:05:54Z Mayhap, for I am only twelve years old; Yet I'm no dullard, sister, and I weep Because I see thee sad. Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z The only risk the dullard could take to express his agony was to roll his eyes. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z And so he declared that his son was but a dullard at sword-play, eh? The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z Oh, he was the dullard of his class, For how can a youth get learning With his eyes aye fixed on a pretty lass And his heart aye filled with yearning? The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Whether dullard or dreamer, this was certainly the last person you would pick out of a crowd for the errand on which he had come. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z That quick glance was incongruous with his dullard aspect; it held a spark of fire, inspiration, frenzy—who can say? The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z There’s a chapter in the book, but our interview focused on what to do if your boss is a real dullard. Be Enchanting! Guy Kawasaki Tells How To Win Like Apple 2011-03-07T21:36:52Z Some folk scoffed openly and declared it was a tale to tell children and dullards; but there were the two leather bags filled with gold. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z Labour is the curse and the qualification, also; and so the dullard who toils shall beat the genius who idles. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z They hate being told what to do by managers, whom they regard as dullards. Schumpeter: The art of management 2011-02-17T10:44:59Z Such a crowded hour of wisdom, wit and historic revelation was an experience that even a dullard was not likely to forget. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z "The most absolute dullard," Rose whispered to her cousin, Hilda Hamilton. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z To furnish themes, No doubt, for dullard bards and minstrelsy. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z She also didn't get the memo that said you had to be an egotistical dullard if you wanted to make it in business. Stella's English won The Apprentice 2010-12-20T09:57:18Z It is challenging, sometimes maddening, but a terrific example of a keen intelligence at work on a topic usually reserved for dullards. My favourite books on sport 2010-08-05T11:58:00Z They have identified hotheads and tiptoers, schmoozers and loners, divas, dullards and fearless explorers, and they have learned that animals, like us, often cling to the same personality for the bulk of their lives. Basics: Even Among Animals: Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z Companies that eschew extrinsic rewards risk lumbering themselves with sluggish dullards. 2010-01-14T10:45:00Z Besides being a tyrant and a dullard, their form-master, they observed, was not even a gentleman. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Even here, Barlow managed to be with someone most of the time—but the same dullards got boring. By Earthlight And Roy's father would shake his head dubiously and mutter that he had never expected a son of his to be a dullard. The Crimson Sweater The lieutenant who gave me a hearing was by no means the dullard you might have expected him to be, and eyed me in a way that wasn't comforting. The Minute Boys of Boston The truth was that he had so many pleasant things to think about that books were only the dullard's task. Rose MacLeod Miss Pratt, ruthless towards "slackers" or "dullards", slowly relaxed a tithe of her irony. Loyal to the School No boor and dullard may walk with you in the fields of fancy, alone with the night wind and the quiet stars. The Technique of Fiction Writing I took it that he was a youth of parts, or he would not be found, at his age, in the company of the Grand Prieur, who hated dullards. Francezka If you were homely, and a dullard, I should entertain less apprehension about your future.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The mere dullard sat silent, playing with his glove or discussing at what apothecary's the best tobacco was to be bought. Old and New London Volume I She had no sooner said it than I was convicted of being a dullard. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The voice of Thor resounds again on high, While arm'd Valkyries ride from out the sky: The Gods of Asgard all their pow'rs release To rouse the dullard from his dream of peace. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The two are therefore alike in this, that the dullard is capable of nothing, and the other finds nothing to suit him. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Graceless he may have been, but a dullard the mercurial 'King Colley' was not. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The dullards who fancy that Lord Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespeare have no discrimination. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It would surprise the dullards of both parties to learn how great a portion of the working energy of Radicalism is supplied by Freethinkers. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) He is not an intellectual, and he certainly is not a dullard. Westward with the Prince of Wales I could have whipped the dullards or cried with vexation. Dreamers of the Ghetto But explanation was needed, and explanation never came easily to this stalwart dullard. The Twins of Suffering Creek The remaining majority are divided into two sections, one of which consists of what are termed boys of average ability, whilst the other contains the lazy element, the refractory boys, and the dullards. The Curse of Education Those same dullards might talk of scattered boulders. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America What matter, Dear, though dullard thousands throng And jostle rudely at Life's holy feast? Oklahoma Sunshine The men, with whom the ordinary methods failed, belonged to the defective classes already described as mathematical dullards, deficient in self-control, and stupids. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science I should have been a dullard, in sooth, had I not learned much in the companionship graciously granted me by my honoured mistress. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney I might have expected mine host to be a dullard. The Belovéd Vagabond Because, dear dullards, I want you to enter the service of Gonzague. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama The wise and foolish shout with kindred laughter; No greater and no smaller fools appear, And Folly flouts the dullard calling after! Oklahoma Sunshine But in spite of the dullards, the new life I spoke of, the new sense of responsibility of our citizenship, is stirring. The Battle with the Slum Yet it may be that I am such a dullard that thou dost wish that I should meet with a like fate.” In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls As for the dullards, they'll be always with you, like the poor, down at the bottom like a sediment, sir, and much too heavy to stir up! The Giant's Robe If guilelessness lends interest to a dullard, it is still more so with the really luminous souls. Old Familiar Faces You reckoned without considering that the senior class were not all dullards. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Not to understand after one look at the poverty and disease maps that hung on the wall was to declare oneself a dullard. The Battle with the Slum He translates; he borrows; he "plagiarises" about as much as is possible for anybody who is not a mere dullard to do. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Horses know so well the difference between their own driver’s touch and a stranger’s hand, and the four whose reins Ruth now held were not dullards. Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life He was a slow-witted lout, but the veriest dullard must have perceived that the disappearance of the weapon which presumably killed his father was a serious matter for its owner. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Mr. Swinburne might reply that for such dullards he does not write; but the finest wines are too heady for a morning's draught. Studies in Literature and History As nervous hypochondriac, as would-be swaggerer, as a dullard requiring stimulus, he found that drink, to use his own language, gave him "smeddum." The House with the Green Shutters The lad was adjudged a dullard and left to remain in his stupidity with the rest of the blockhead world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 If I’d had more brain, I might have managed the rest; but I’m a dullard too. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Now Captain Wellsby was no dullard and he purposed to make short work of these vile pirates. Blackbeard: Buccaneer You probably think I am an idiotic simpleton, a dullard. The Goose Man "All our philosophic pedants, all our sons of science know Not a whit more than that dullard knew a million years ago." Deerfoot in The Mountains As soon as he could gather money enough he had left agriculture to the dullards, and built this house near the town as a rendezvous for all who loved the flavour of depravity. The Valley of the Kings Isabel, out of her abiding mischief, had dressed herself for a dullard's part. Country Neighbors "Epigram, my dear Duke, is the refuge of the dullard, who imagines that he obtains truth by inverting a truism." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 The placid personage who assisted me to a bath in my room was as happy a dullard as my waiter in the Baden, and both of them caressed their job as Narcissus caressed the fountain. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 The dullard does not want things which the man of lively imagination feels that he must have. General John Regan Mellone is strictly a water-melon; but I have rendered it "pumpkin," to preserve the English idiom, "pumpkinhead" being our equivalent for the Italian "melon," used in the sense of dullard, noodle. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio A dullard could not have missed his thoughts. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure He must be a dullard indeed who fails to understand their symbolism. The Book-Hunter at Home The dullards who have not the desire, and therefore have not the capacity to seek new truth, languidly regard as dreamers the men who talk of things so foreign to their own habits. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 His genius was too large and energetic to move at ease in the narrow garment prescribed as the poet’s wear by the dullards and the pedants who had followed Boileau. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The maid most probably thought her mistress bored, and the guest a dullard. Despair's Last Journey There are many, not stigmatised as dullards or as fools, who publicly oppose the teaching of English history in the State schools. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile But as one of the demos of moral dullards, I get no little comfort from applying to Nietsche and Ibsen, and to certain prophet litterateurs of England, Burke's reproof of Lord Bolingbroke. The Moral Economy He was clever, practical and ambitious, excelling in all his studies; whereas, except in those which appealed to my imagination, I was a dullard and a dreamer. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Why, Ben, you've told me more already," said Tom, "than any dullard like me could ever learn from a book. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Garrick’s death, urge these dullards, could not possibly have eclipsed the gaiety of nations, since he had retired from the stage months p. 113previous to his demise. Obiter Dicta Second Series The plucking of one such brand from the burning is ample compensation for the energy expended on any number of average dullards, who but require to be left alone to find their natural level. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata Poetry has its probabilities, so has prose: when people cry out against the representation of a dullard, Could he have spoken all that? Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The quick mind supplies the apt repartee, while the dullard thinks of the appropriate reply next morning—if at all. Spirit and Music If he smart not for this, and something else, call me a dullard.” Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess The performance of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted, and Mahomet's unhappy coffin, these are illustrations that have long been the prerogative of dolts and dullards. Tancred Or, The New Crusade It put faith and expectation into these stolid, menial lives and took them out of the ranks of the idle and discontented dullards who, in other countries, are a source of danger or decay. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life As Jonas had been voted by his kin the family dullard, it was decided to make a clergyman of him. Essays on Scandinavian Literature And then came the next great forward step, the realization that children are not dullards through the will of an inscrutable Providence, but rather through the law of cause and effect. Health Work in the Public Schools Veering about they eyed Baudichon, on whom the odium of the lost opportunity seemed to rest, with resentment—as an honest man, but a simpleton, a dullard, a block! The Long Night So the Priests said to each other: "Come away; the fellow is a mere dunce and dullard!" The Well of Saint Clare In tracing the natural history of a public-house I have found the respectable dullards the most revolting of my subjects. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Would he not be like one called a dullard or a clod? Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence If a humorous man ever purposely enacts the dullard, the impersonation is always modified—he is like Snug, the joiner, who does not "fright the ladies." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour He had appraised the man as a dullard under his stupid, inflexible crust of egotism, despite his veneer of manners. The Hidden Places A wrong environment in those early years might easily have shaped Rembrandt into a morose and resentful dullard: the good in his nature, thrown back upon itself, would have been turned to gall. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters "You regard me as a dullard in comprehending canine qualities?" Infelice The old man looked his pity for our dullard wit, and then set a moiety of it in words. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady There are dullards in the United States as well as elsewhere; and nothing can well be more ghastly than American humour run into the ground. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Henry was a dullard mentally, while Mary's mind was keen and alert—two facts of which the girl was perfectly aware—so it was no wonder she had such confidence in herself. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth 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 "That doesn't make him out a fool or a dullard," retorted the young captain. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts Did he class her with that alien world of prigs and dullards? The Half-Hearted Would you not think such a one a dullard, or, at least, stupidly blind to his opportunities? A String of Amber Beads Its magic power of wit can spread The halo round a dullard's head, Can make the sage forget his care, His bosom's inmost thoughts unbare, And drown his solemn-faced pretense Beneath its blithesome influence. Horace and His Influence He was no dullard; once on the track of her thought, he soon came up with her. What Necessity Knows It is only the dullard, who mistakes the symbol for the idea, the letter for the spirit, the metaphor for the thought within, who is a bigot. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel For this reason he is a dullard, an ignoramus, a poor scholar, a poor writer, in a word, an inferior person from a literary and scholarly point of view. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation Jolly nose! there are fools who say drink hurts the sight; Such dullards know nothing about it. Jack Sheppard A Romance "The judgment of the dullard and the laughter of the crowd." A Reckless Character And Other Stories According to her one was a dullard; another's nose was impossible. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney Then came the other, a stout workman—that one, the truest painter of the century, and altogether classical besides, a fact which not one of the dullards understood. His Masterpiece Are you such a dullard that you cannot read beneath a woman's yes and no? The Hawk of Egypt As regards this topic, therefore, a dullard whose understanding has been debased by ignorance, never succeeds in acquiring the highest aim of Virtue and Wealth, viz., The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Comedy and tragedy have been enacted within its walls; penury and prodigality have dwelt beneath the same rafters; the versatile genius and the plodding dullard have taken their maiden flights toward fame in its halls. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 In the infant classes at schools they are recognised as dullards, learning Page 150 slowly, speaking badly, and lacking co-ordination in all muscular movements. The Nervous Child For dullards know not goodness in their hand, Nor prize the jewel till ’tis cast away. The Seven Plays in English Verse He did so at his own peril who took Orme for a dullard. The Way of a Man Hues charming and fair may move the wise and not the dullard. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn No man but a dullard without a spark of imagination could have witnessed the scene presented at that moment without experiencing a thrill which he would have found it difficult to describe. Ulster's Stand For Union Let the Post readers plod along to-morrow with an editorial page both skimpy and inferior; anything he gave them would still be too good for them, middle-class drabs and dullards that they were. Queed "There was two of them, was there?" she persisted, but still with the accent of a hopeless dullard. Flames Only the dullard would object to the nauseous cant of the one, or to the indiscretions of the other. The Hill of Dreams That some of this cheerfulness may be simply animal is true, and that a man may be a dullard and yet sit and "grin like a Cheshire cat;" but we are not speaking of grinning. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Now, Napoleon learned by induction as Josephine had, and as all women do, and as genius must, for life is short—only dullards spend eight years at Oxford. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women The Venetian supposed that Bruno, with more than human erudition, possessed the art of conveying knowledge into the heads of dullards. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 In the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy We Three form an informal but fast-knit trinity, that can offend none but churls, and affright none but dullards. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Garrick's death, urge these dullards, could not possibly have eclipsed the gayety of nations, since he had retired from the stage months previous to his demise. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 They were like their father, a doomed dullard; while Fritzing's mother, whom he resembled, had been a rather extraordinary woman in a rough and barbarous way. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight The industrial revolution had turned numbers of greedy dullards into monstrously rich men. Back to Methuselah Nay, rather as a celestial recreation, of which the dullard mind is not at all hours alike recipient. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 The poor dullard who received the note flew into a rage—returned the picture—sent his compliments and begged the great artist to "take your picture and go to the devil." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great No dullard ever succeeds, no genius goes unrewarded. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The dullards who at home are staying Are not refreshed by morning's ray; They grovel, earth-born calls obeying, And petty cares beset their day. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English If this is true with the dullard, the weakling, then what must it mean when possessed by the great? Laugh and Live Smarting dullards went about for years, with an ever-ready microscope, hunting for flaws in his character that might be injuriously exposed; but to-day his defamers are in bad repute. Yesterdays with Authors On the contrary, he dominated his fellows as absolutely as if he had been a dullard and a dunce. Books and Characters French and English O lady, you who are so good and pitiful, let my mother get back her true Peregrine—a straight-limbed, comely dullard, such as would be welcome to her. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago More and more he sank into mere drifting, and he whose pride had been really to know, now trusted to luck like any dullard with a head unfit for studying. The Soul of a Child "Leave to dullards the riches of the mines they never would have found," broke in Bart. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio The dullards who repeat these platitudes of the muddle-headed multitude are surely the only people for whom they are true. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. Balcony Stories The thought of him was like a touch of fire to Paul Colbert, so burning was the contempt which he felt for this conceited dullard whose blundering had nearly been his own death. Round Anvil Rock A Romance The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. The Devil's Dictionary "How long is it expected that an ordinary dullard would require to master Blackstone?" Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Intentions Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan But should some say that always souls of men Go into human bodies, I will ask: How can a wise become a dullard soul? On the Nature of Things O thou dullard and mad man, wherefore hast thou exchanged thine honour for shame, and thy glorious estate for this unseemly show? Barlaam and Ioasaph The man who trusts to the inspiration of genius, or his capacity to get advantage by ingenious management in court, will find himself passed by a patient dullard. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio I would no more think of putting my Boccaccio into the hands of a dullard than I would think of leaving a bright and beautiful woman at the mercy of a blind mute. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac David was always a quiet, orderly boy and for a long time was thought by the people of Winesburg to be something of a dullard. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life As for Alfred, he was notably fine-looking in his evening-clothes—infinitely more like the son of a nobleman, the gratified uncle kept saying to himself, than that big dullard, the Honourable Balder. The Market-Place We had passed through the sacred college together, and always he had been known as the dullard. The Lost Continent Miserable dullard!" cried the poet; "do you tell me that you have not previously heard of Claudine? A Chair on the Boulevard We admire this man as being a great philosopher, and set down the other as a dullard, not knowing either, or the amount of truth in either, or being certain of the truth any where. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy She had with her eyes open promised to marry this Englishman--fop! dullard! roisterer! insolent cub!--so the rough words tumbled to my tongue. In the Valley He had been a dullard; he had lain prostrate in the wretchedness of his loss. The Gentleman from Indiana I know it, and I do not care at all even though you piteous dullards should always lack the wit to recognise and revere perfected speech when it confronts you. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking In competition with men alert, loyal, trained and creative, the dullard is condemned to a lifetime of hard labor, through no direct fault of his own. The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men And so he got the name of a dullard. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Not much for books, perhaps, though no dullard. In the Valley Do you think I was such a dullard as not to guess that man's name? The Golden Calf Hebrew spectacles, and to force her to be a laggard and dullard, instead of a bright and volatile spirit, forward and foremost in the race of life. Popular Tales from the Norse Shame is of the brute dullard who thinks shame. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett And I liken thee, O dullard, to the serpent in her dealings with the man. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III It is so natural to wish to find what is fair and precious in high places,—so astonishing to find the Bourbon a glutton, or the Guelph a dullard or gossip. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. As to myself—why deny it?—I was a dullard. In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 "Nothing is more amusing sometimes than a surly dullard." The Possessed (The Devils) One of our cynical authors says that it is the mark of a genius that all the dullards are against him. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Charles, by comparison, was a mere dullard who turned Whitehall into a seraglio. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Yea, verily," thought the innkeeper, as he slowly advanced to meet the newcomers, "they be but two dullards. A Boy's Ride We admire this man as being a great philosopher, and set down the other as a dullard, not knowing either, or the amount of truth in either, or being certain of the truth anywhere. The History of Pendennis Only the power to exercise my will, my sense of command over the dullards round me, and a yet keener pleasure you do not know of, are left to me. Dawn An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life Not too much learning, as some arrogate, But the small brains of dullards have sufficed To make us wretched and the world enthrall. Sonnets These glandular preponderances are at the basis of personality, creating genius and dullard, weakling and giant, Cavalier and Puritan. The Glands Regulating Personality Still, art less of a dullard than I thought thee. Beltane the Smith I must be a dullard of dullards, if that most exquisite of Alcamenes's works had escaped my notice. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Such work I leave to the ambition of dullards and pedants, as foreign to my own purpose. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Some dullard may here object that M. France—attestedly, indeed, since he remains unjailed-cannot himself believe all this, and that it is with an ironic glitter in his ink he has recorded these dicta. The Queen Pedauque And he was a dullard, indeed, who did not at least profess, in his hours of idleness, to pour spontaneous rhythm from his flowing quill. Literary Lapses "Shame is of the brute dullard who thinks shame," came the resonant voice of the reader. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists O brotherhood Of envious dullards, ye are wroth with good. A Lover's Diary, Complete O brotherhood Of envious dullards, ye are wroth with good. A Lover's Diary, Volume 1. The ability to seem not to notice incriminating evidence is rarer still—rarest of all when under the eyes of a native of India, for cats and hawks are dullards by comparison to them. King of the Khyber Rifles Seventy-three years' droning along under mission rule has ended in vain repetition of spiritual adjurations to the dullard Indians. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The words pronounced of old times on the dubbing of a knight, "Be gentle, valiant, and fortunate," are not words which could realise themselves in the dullard or the churl. Dreams and Dream Stories How we pitied the dullards that were lagging a-bed on that bright summer morning! The Recreations of a Country Parson "Leave the frailties to the dullards of this world." Aladdin O'Brien Come, come! cease this useless prating!" he said imperatively yet good-naturedly—"In everything ye showed your dullard ignorance and lack of discernment. Ardath Really men are not such dullard dunderheads as women are pleased to imagine. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel And shall it be admitted that this potent argument of little minds is as powerless as the dullards of all ages have steadfastly maintained? The Fiend's Delight But it has flashed into my brain suddenly,—and even so inspiration may affect the dullard. God's Good Man Janet was as far as ever from looking handsome or pretty, but it must have been a dullard who proclaimed her face unpleasing. Born in Exile Still, a man who could not kiss properly after reading the Kama Sutra would be a dullard indeed. The Life of Sir Richard Burton As the fellows in number one were undistinguished dullards, Stephen and Heron had been during the year the virtual heads of the school. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man It had become clear to him that he was unfortunate enough to possess an out-and-out dullard for a son. Australia Felix And Dal always says 'only a dullard is dull.' The Rosary The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard. The Golden Bough And I liken thee, O dullard, to the serpent in her dealings with that man. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 Love has sharp eyes at times, and a dullard under the influence of the baby god will turn shrewd and exert rare wiles in the conduct of his wooing. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro There IS a good in gentility: the man who questions it is envious, or a coarse dullard not able to perceive the difference between high breeding and low. The Second Funeral of Napoleon They have the best intentions in the world, these dullards, and some of them love me even; but they are tiresome all. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... This is humiliation,—that our dullard souls cannot keep up to the pitch of sublimity for two hours; that we could sail through Glory and Beauty, through Past and Present, and laugh. Gala-days What a dullard you are to ask about such simple things! Through Russia Still, I was not altogether a dullard, and my professors were able to teach me almost everything they wanted, namely, a little Greek and a great deal of Latin. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Forgotten altogether; or recognized, like Rollin and others, for polished dullards, university big-wigs, and long-winded commonplace persons, deserving nothing but oblivion. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 German, to this day, is a frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 Hapless godless dullard that he is; driven and driving on courses that lead only downward, for him as for us! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 I will take lessons from her; she had managed to make a peer of France of that eminently ordinary person her husband, and a dullard into a power in the land. A Woman of Thirty M. le Marquis does not look as if he were a dullard. Scaramouche It may be a good thing after all to be such a dullard as I am. The Chouans I wonder how it is our alma mater—don't speak of it after dark—dare display in public such noodles and patent dullards as that Z. Z—— Why, he is a European fool! The Wife, and other stories Never did small boy detest and resist being carried off to his nursery as these dullards, young and old, detest and resist being driven to theirs. The Diary of a Goose Girl But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The Marquis is a dullard whose wooing takes the form at best of stilted compliments, stupid and unoriginal. Scaramouche And though none of the dullards took his jest, they instantly made way for him. A Book of Scoundrels But there would be dullards and dastards who would not. A Lady of Quality One has seen this embarrassment of a wit in a company of dullards. Letters on Literature Is it illusion or not that attracteth the pilgrim transalpine, Brings him a dullard and dunce hither to pry and to stare? Amours De Voyage Why did I come here in that dullard fit? Poems — Volume 1 Richard of Bury, I sighed, for a sharp stone from your sling to pierce with indignant sarcasm the mental armour of these College dullards. The Enemies of Books Amongst those who were reduced to a like condition by Socrates, many refused to come near him again, whom he for his part looked upon as dolts and dullards. The Memorabilia We are all, in the mass, dullards compared with his cleverness, and so he fails to understand us, is much at a loss among us. Letters on Literature At other times, Philistines would enter, what we call bores, dullards, Children of Darkness; and then,—except in a hunt of dullards, and a bore-baiting, which might be permissible,—the evening was dark. Life of John Sterling The fools, the idiots, the generations of blind dullards! Dead Souls VI But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns, That they should be as stones. Poems |
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