| 单词 | dunce |
| 例句 | “Now, from the top!” he yelled into his dunce cap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Why fabricate a tale in which one comes off as a self-confessed dunce? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We were already regarded as black dunces, and if the doctors saw this mess they would take it as final proof. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure he thinks I’m a dunce—a sloppy one at that. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Almost everywhere I looked the dunce caps appeared, and I filled a bag in less than an hour. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He got to spend the day with Pa watching rabbits and I had to sit in a room of kids who hated me, looking like the dunce that I am. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It was essentially, said Boo, “remedial classes for divine dunces.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You dunce! You got me right in the ear.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He was holding a dunce cap—an honest-to-goodness cardboard cone that said dunce. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This present was a dunce’s cap, rather like a pharaoh’s serpent, which you lit at the top end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, then, us two dunces are going to find a way out of this place.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, shame printed on them in red. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At the summit of the house was a cupola with diamond leaded-glass windows and a dunce- cap roof! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Fake Leo put the top of the dunce cap to his mouth like a megaphone and yelled, “CUT!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "You're clever, all right. But a common dunce all the same." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a tall dunce cap covered with red X’s, the sign for a criminal. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Carry your bag to Cooter’s room, Elijah. And don’t be trying to talk to that dunce neither. Another thing he gunn be doing till he turn thirty is keeping his mouth shut.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z "What a dunce I've been! I truly believed you wanted to be a player!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Are the classes like a three-channel television set? What will I do when they’re on the other channels? Will they think I’m a dunce for speaking only English?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he had placed me in front of the whole class with a dunce cap on my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She claimed that he had only been pretending about his religious feelings—as was shown by his immediately going off with Elaine when he had the dunce. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “That’s fine, Elijah, but don’t be counting on Cooter to go with you. Schoolteacher Travis just come by and said the boy’s acting the dunce at school again.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A funnel of mosquitoes, like an inverted dunce cap, whined over her head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I do think that,” she said, “and that’s why I’m feeling like such a dunce right now.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s a head wearing a dunce hat and “Ally” is written underneath. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Sammy plopped the dunce cap on top of his jockey cap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "The famous buccaneers," as Stevenson called them, were not chivalrous adventurers, but "lubbers and swabs, and downright dunces." Long-lost essay by 'Dr. Jekyll' author published 2013-03-14T11:45:09Z Sutton’s famous quotation has always made him seem like a lovable dunce, Yogi Berra with a gun moll and a getaway car. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z Mr. Ince, while careful to pepper the show with jokes, is mostly happy to be the facilitator of conversation, and his thoughtful, open-minded questions belie his self-described status as the show’s dunce. ‘Infinite Monkey Cage’ Brings Playful Science Series to U.S. 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, an Iranian vice-president attacked Britons as "inhuman" idiots saddled with a dunce of a prime minister. Iranian media warned after paper calls Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a 'prostitute' 2010-08-31T11:40:00Z Does my deep engagement with the novel’s central character, Holly Sykes, make me a dunce or just gullible? On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Darwin was a self-confessed dunce at drawing – a handicap for a naturalist – but as Munro, points out, "to compensate he substituted a rich variety of colour descriptions". Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z Where Shane Black’s The Nice Guys were bumbling dunces, McDonagh’s pair trade wisecracks peppered with esoteric references to everyone from Simone de Beauvoir to realist painter Andrew Wyeth. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Comedians are adept at turning defects and deficiencies into sources of strength and he is still disarming the school bullies by pretending to be a dunce. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z She also lambasted a Tribune editorial cartoon from earlier this year that depicted Lewis in the corner of a classroom wearing a dunce cap. CTU president apologizes to Arne Duncan 2011-11-15T01:09:00Z And no matter how much I remind her that we live in a confederacy of dunces, she suffers. | Laws of Attraction 2013-08-21T17:15:57Z America through the Crooked lens is a grand experiment, ever more perfect and expansive, but endangered by ancient prejudices, persistent injustices and a despotic dunce in the White House. The battle in your ear buds: The bros of political podcasting and their quest to reinvent punditry 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Worse, we dragged down the grade-curve and now must stand in the dunces' corner. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z These were gonzo vignettes introducing people whose lifestyles were, as the title insinuated, unusual and/or eccentric: fundamentalist Christian loons, survivalist crackpots, white supremacist dunces. TV OD: Twilight of the Porn Stars 2012-06-08T23:05:09Z I'll wager economic dunces like me learned more about finance from It's a Wonderful Life or Trading Places. The problem with money in the movies 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z Simpson suggested Clark was something more than a dunce, but the show basically got a free pass at the time. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is TV's Most #Problematic Show 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z When you had a bunch of liberals depicting Sarah Palin as a dunce and McCain as out-of-touch, it was hard for a lot of conservatives to take it as an accurate retelling of the facts. Cast the Trump Mini-Series: Who Should Play the Donald? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z In his original concept drawings for the dunce cap, inventor I.M. Style Invitational Week 1253: Fashion x fiction — a fake-trivia contest 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z A guy in a dunce cap is lying on the couch, troubled. Tooning up: Refreshed cartoon tropes from Style Invitational Week 1397 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z China at this time was still reeling from the effects of the cultural revolution that ended in 1976, when Mao-suited officials humiliated "class traitors" in public with dunce's hats and jeering crowds. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z Oliver, who is a dunce of a wizard, is a terrific character; Wayne and Megan, not so much. Review: ‘Puffs’ Parodies Harry Potter’s World 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Then adopts the barrel voice of a dunce: "I'm thinking of taking a year off to go to France and write a Great American Novel." Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z Little Matilda is a brainy, imaginative 5-year-old with crassly philistine parents who vastly prefer their dunce son to their intellectually precocious daughter. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z At any rate, for every enthusiast of his music there have been plenty of detractors labeling him an idiot and a dunce. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Ted Danson sure seems to be having a blast on “The Good Place”: He swings wildly from depraved mastermind to dunce to contemplative egghead with nuance and panache. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ and ‘The Good Place’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “He may have cost his party the U.S. Senate — he and his confederacy of dunces.” For media following Georgia, nail-biting and lots of numbers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Well, hand me the dunce cap Grace, because I must respectfully disagree. The Spice Girls were my gateway drug to feminism 2012-12-13T11:41:11Z I’m not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? Arts & Leisure: Look Past the Beauty, if You Can 2011-07-22T13:53:10Z The students, some wearing dunce caps, refused to leave and organised a series of life drawing classes near the entrance to the central London gallery. Student protests: Turner prize awards day sees Tate Britain invaded 2010-12-06T20:33:00Z I’ve said we were ready for a child, but even a complete dunce knows explosives and babies don’t mix. Why I’m an out, bisexual dad 2014-04-10T11:50:00Z Shakespeare, no dunce, set his history plays among the long-gone and largely forgotten. Review: Manly Trump Sinks Waterlogged Liberals in ‘Shipwreck’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Very good, Kate, who quickly adds that she wasn't a dunce. BBC stars' second-class performance 2013-05-08T07:58:08Z If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete. On Tucker Carlson, Jordan Neely and "how white men fight" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Ironically, she was punished in school for not being able to keep quiet and put in a corner with a dunce cap on her head. Actress Cindy Williams, the optimistic Shirley of 'Laverne & Shirley,' has died 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z But, he said, the rise of Reagan, whom he considered at the time to be an “amiable dunce, and my view hasn’t changed,” made him rethink that decision. Maryland’s AG has taken on the gun lobby, the drug industry and Trump 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z “Now we have this clown car of a government, a parade of dunces.” With another prime minister gone, what's next for an already diminished Britain? 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Bush was drawn sitting on a stool wearing a dunce cap and a stupid expression, and the headline asked: “The Worst President in History?” Column: Remember when we thought George W. Bush was the worst president ever? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Leading this confederacy of dunces is Herschel Walker, GOP Senate nominee from Georgia. Opinion | For Republicans gone bananas, a new fashion line 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z We are being forced to listen to a cacophony of dunces arguing over our Constitution right now. Cacophony of dunces: When the Supreme Court trashed the Constitution 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Now he’s the guy who sat on that bar stool in Columbus, the bully who berated his kicker, the dunce who thought Andre Cisco was playing when he wasn’t. Analysis | Urban Meyer knew every trick to college success, but you can’t fake it in the NFL 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But dunce caps aside, the irony is that Xi’s critique of Big Tech is similar to recent debates in the United States. Opinion | Xi’s heavy-handed reforms of China’s tech sector could have an upside for the U.S. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Come December, the predictor will either be wearing a dunce cap or a genius cap. Southern Section football playoff championship predictions: Mater Dei and who else? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But Xi will drive these changes using the ruthless instrument of an authoritarian, one-party state — and you can already see the purges and figurative “dunce caps” for those he views as obstacles. Opinion | Xi Jinping’s disturbing Maoist turn 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Pena insists that his path to success, power, and money started in grammar school, when he was forced to wear a dunce hat. How a scrappy Chicano from L.A. came to own a Scottish castle 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Demonstrators in Rome wore dunce’s caps to indicate the impact of the closures on students’ education, while in Milan pupils’ messages and placards were propped against their school rucksacks placed on the ground. Italian parents and children protest against COVID school closures 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z “He may have cost his party the U.S. Senate - he and his confederacy of dunces.” For media following Georgia, nail-biting and lots of numbers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln imprisoned editors during the Civil War, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt admonished a journalist to go to the corner and wear a dunce cap. Psaki, next White House press secretary, a veteran messenger 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z If Lamont lets this deteriorate further, he may find he’s wearing the dunce cap in the corner for letting his prized project fall apart. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Today's Republicans, the equivalent of the northern Democrats of the post-Civil War era and a true confederacy of dunces, cannot be allowed to persist in their current incarnation as a vehicle for Trumpism. What will it take to defeat Trumpism? 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z They portray the president as a criminal and a dunce: someone who sought to engage in obstruction of justice multiple times and knows pathetically little about history and the world. Opinion | John Bolton’s blockbuster book 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z But it’s even worse that he is a one-man delivery vehicle for a dunce cult that denies science. Trump's hydroxychloroquine habit is the triumph of rightwing quackery | Richard Wolffe 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Afraid of looking like a dunce when it comes to your fashion knowledge? Wednesday Addams plaits and Jurassic Park chic: 14 style lessons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z A confederacy of dunces stumbled onto the Senate floor this week to launch their bewildering defense of President Trump. Opinion | Trump’s confederacy of dunces 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces." This Italian scientist has become a celebrity by fighting vaccine skeptics 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Bregman, perhaps their best player this year and one of the game’s most-liked and brightest ambassadors, has — if the Astros lose — put a dunce cap on his own head that will linger for years. Perspective | The Nats had plenty of heroes in Game 6 — and even owe a thank you to Astros’ Alex Bregman 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Trump's hydroxychloroquine habit is the triumph of rightwing quackery | Richard Wolffe 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z She didn’t seem interested in the $20 an hour I was happy to pay, but Garcia agreed to give things a try before handing me a dunce cap. Column: Learning Spanish at a Boyle Heights hair salon reminds me what I love about L.A. 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z All I did was point out that when the planet is melting and fires are raging, it doesn’t help to have the biggest dunce in science class serving as president of the United States. Column: Republicans blame Democratic leadership for California's problems. They have a point, but ... 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Above all, Hader did not strike out Soto, the kind of left-handed hitter he is supposed to dominate, intimidate and fit for a dunce cap. Perspective | The Nationals’ wild-card win was both thrilling and emotionally exhausting. Of course it was. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Xi’s father was purged, and Xi was sent to the countryside, forced to dig trenches and wear a metal dunce cap. China’s Communist Party has one more reason to celebrate — a year longer in power than the U.S.S.R. 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z During the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Wang recalled watching her parents be forced to put on dunce caps because her father had been a soldier in the nationalist Kuomintang forces. Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z As a teen-ager, he lived through the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, when young Red Guards forced him to wear a metal dunce cap and imprisoned his father. China’s Hong Kong Dilemma 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Not all residents were on board with punishing the mayor with a sort of sartorial dunce cap, reported La Republica. Mexican mayor paraded through town in women's clothes for failing to keep campaign promises 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z It kind of went out with the dunce cap. ‘Up there to humiliate:’ Is a Seattle school’s detention list bringing shaming back? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Franklin Delano Roosevelt made one disfavored reporter wear a dunce hat. Editorials from around New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z To no one's surprise, dance dunce Joe Amabile, who appeared on "The Bachelorette," was also sent packing on the double elimination episode. DWTS Recap: 'Wrong!' Judges melt down after perfect-scoring celebrity is eliminated 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z That luck is a hugely underestimated factor in football and post-game analysis is often harshly binary with winning coaches tactical geniuses and losers dunces when, in reality, things could easily have gone either way. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z That, of course, fed into the Mainstream-Media hype that Reagan was a dunce. Bob Woodward’s book: Another work of non-fiction fiction? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “That’s not a strategy I agree with either, by the way,” she said — because kids at the bottom may be made to feel, in front of the whole school, like dunces. ‘Up there to humiliate:’ Is a Seattle school’s detention list bringing shaming back? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Like dunces, we punished Russians for killing human rights activists. Opinion | We are a deeply stupid country 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z While he is still employed by Tesla, he finds the “light duty” tasks that he gets assigned to be humiliating, like “standing in front of the class with a dunce cap”. Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There will be 22nd-century dunces lagging by a half-century or more. Perspective | I read decades of Woody Allen’s private notes. He’s obsessed with teenage girls. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Surely, they have put you in a dunce cap as well. Perspective | Trying to get a handle on this Redskins season? You’ve come to the wrong place. 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Love the three dunce caps in the photo. Opinion | Trump’s Totally Terrible Time 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z They look to the future and try to imagine the exact nature of the apocalypse the dunce will surely precipitate. We're still aghast at Donald Trump – but what good has that done? | Thomas Frank 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The price we’re paying for this takeover by a confederacy of dunces is high. Opinion | We Used to Build Things 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z He noted Amazon is known for its innovation and said that company could turn Whole Foods from “the class dunce” to “valedictorian.” Amazon-Whole Foods deal gets blessing from FTC and shareholders 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The Whole Foods chief said Amazon's technology will help the grocer transform from "class dunce" into "valedictorian." Whole Foods CEO hints at another brand under Amazon 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Again, this was stupid, stupid politics emerging from a thoughtless, nearsighted dunce. Hey, Trump voters: This fiasco is what you get when you “experiment” with the presidency 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Those thoughts—like “the flight of the ball tells all”—achieved the concision and clarity that made them timeless because, according to Jacobs, he was a “dunce” in school. Golfers could never pay enough attention to the wisdom of John Jacobs - Golf Digest 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z What followed was an exchange of errors longer than a dunce’s exam paper. Andy Murray suffers for his art in marathon win over Milos Raonic 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z I sat in on one of Yuan Qi’s maths classes while the teacher – a tough but kindly woman with a strong Beijing accent – walked through exam-paper equations that left me feeling like a dunce. Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam? | Alec Ash 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing inherent in smartphones that turns us into dunces. Five myths about smartphones 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It's important to realize that, no, getting these answers incorrect doesn't mean you're a dunce. How Healthy Is Your Diet, Really? 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Deflategate was his defining moment in history, and it firmly established him as a political bungler and a dunce. Why Roger Goodell, not Tom Brady, is Deflategate’s real loser 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The United States is a confederation of dunces. America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Just Ask Australia. 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Her father was publicly humiliated at struggle sessions and paraded around the village wearing a dunce cap. Readers Respond: The Cultural Revolution’s Lasting Imprint 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A dunce cap for the Lakers rookie who taped his teammate's romantic revelations. L.A. sports teams' Class of 2015-16 gets a failing grade 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The Diamondbacks made two major off-season moves, and national analysts fitted them for dunce caps. Tony La Russa sticks out his neck in trying to make the Diamondbacks winners 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Imagine if in debate after debate, Trump’s rivals had attacked him repeatedly as a charlatan and policy dunce – with considerable disrespect for the Great Man. To stop Trump, Rubio and Cruz should have targeted him like this before | James Pethokoukis 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The United States is a confederation of dunces. America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Just Ask Australia. 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z In the presence of such restraint, one can certainly start to feel like a dunce. The Life-Style Guru of Frugality 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z There’s not much difference, he argues, between his experience and victims of the Cultural Revolution forced to walk the streets wearing dunce caps and boards around their necks advertising their crimes. Self-Criticism Makes a Comeback in Xi’s China 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It does indeed look bad—an echo of Mao’s tyranny, when those accused of wronging the Great Helmsman were forced to kneel in dunces’ caps before braying mobs. A confession to make 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z They include allegations bosses yelled at call center staff, told those with low sales figures to wear "dunce" caps and banned a pregnant worker from taking bathroom breaks. Deutsche Telekom under scrutiny over working conditions at U.S. arm T-Mobile 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Clark Clifford called the president an “amiable dunce,” and the usually restrained columnist David Broder wrote, “The task of watering the arid desert between Reagan’s ears is a challenging one for his aides.” Behind the Ronald Reagan myth: “No one had ever entered the White House so grossly ill informed” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z So he went to the library, studied hard and went from math dunce to genius. Jessica Herrin of Stella & Dot: Put the Culture Over the Quarter 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z So when the Gipper walked away from the 1986 Reykjavik summit because Mikhail Gorbachev insisted his price for a nukes deal was the end of missile defense, Reagan was derided as a dunce. The Liberal Theology of Gun Control 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z He’s a much better artist than that, and compromise just looks silly on him, like a dunce cap on a monument. ♦ Robert O’Hara’s Black-and-White Family Satire 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But she really must think voters are dunces. Hillary Trades Places With Clinton 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z A Wall Street Journal headline referred to him as a ‘‘dunce.’’ How Ned Yost Made the Kansas City Royals Unstoppable 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But if the Nats fire Williams and Harper’s future performance does not approach this season, then the guy that did the dump will look like a dunce. Bryce Harper’s monster season could force Nats to think long term 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Though these men put on robes, you’ll wonder if they should be fitted for dunce caps for thinking that such a plan will succeed. Review of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It looks like a circle wearing a dunce hat, and it revolves on a frame. The Action Heroes of Dance 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z As the activist thespians sat in their dunce caps, another oil train full of Bakken crude went off the rails. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And make coaches teach courses to the student body, just like any professor, to prove they aren’t dunces. Enjoying college basketball without guilt? Now that’s true madness 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Among all the speakers who’ve come and gone on day two of the Conservative Political Action Conference, my favorite thus far has been former Texas governor and affable dunce Rick Perry. Rick Perry’s border bamboozle: Posing as a “border security” tough guy at CPAC 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Herman once made Jones wear a dunce cap after he received a poor review from a tutor. For Ohio State, an Abundance of Riches and Intrigue at Quarterback 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Instead they ended up being beaten, and Wenger is viewed as a dunce. Predictions: Lawro v Henning Wehn 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The one that persisted Friday night is this: Was that dunce cap actually a wizard’s hat? 2014 World Series: Royals win Game 3, even after Ned Yost makes it an adventure And, when they made a mistake, they would wear the dunce cap, which was once used to punish slow learners. Community celebrates surviving 1-room schoolhouse 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Say hello to the sports world’s latest dunce. Dustin Johnson: Sport's Latest Case Of Athletic, Financial Waste 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z None of this is to shirk the fact that Todd Carney is a colossal dunce but if that itself is the crime then a lot of other players should be shifting uneasily right now. Todd Carney urinated into his own mouth – but he only hurt himself 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “Where is your dunce hat?” he said to the man, who began stumbling away. Tribal Elder of the Fields 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z When the two men called each other a 'muppet' and a 'dunce' - lots of you told us what you thought. VIDEO: First PMQs since 'dunce' v 'muppet' 2014-04-09T08:49:20Z In exchanges on the price of Royal Mail shares, Mr Miliband said the PM was "not so much the 'Wolf of Wall Street' as the 'dunce of Downing Street'". 'Dunce v Muppets' at PM's questions 2014-04-02T11:58:48Z “I feel like a dunce,” he said, “but at the same time, I know I’m really brilliant.” Summer Shorelines: In Williamsburg, Riverside Interludes Amid the Tumult 2013-08-26T02:30:59Z One would have to be a special kind of dunce to miss the context and message here. Obama Offended Catholics? Blarney! 2013-06-21T08:45:00Z He does not believe they are learned, he seems to think they are dunces and they are certainly not his friends. Letter from Africa: All lawyers now 2013-05-09T12:58:59Z He was considered the last dunce in a series of dunces who made it too easy for the Sonics to be taken. Yes, Greg Nickels deserves blame, but not all of it 2013-04-20T23:38:04Z It complains that "nothing is immune from Conservative cuts - even holidays" and says "the Cabinet dunce" is looking for cheap headlines. Gove's school holiday plans debated 2013-04-19T04:53:43Z It took 11 minutes, 11 minutes off your kitchen clock, for the Zags to morph from darlings to dunces. How does loss to Wichita State alter Gonzaga's national standing? 2013-03-28T02:11:05Z But the Internet is, unfortunately, full of dunces. Obama Offended Catholics? Blarney! 2013-06-21T08:45:00Z Its role, beyond working out the logistics of the system, is the creation of the educational materials for those slapped with a copyright dunce hat. Will The New 'Copyright Alert System' Actually Stop People From Downloading Music and Movies Illegally? 2013-02-25T20:43:24Z The solution to that false conundrum is, of course: don't cheer for either side, you despicable dunces, because that's what being neutral means! The Fiver 2013-02-22T15:56:59Z Years from now, we may look back on early artificial intelligence efforts before the era of the Brain Activity Map and view IBM’s Watson supercomputer as the computing equivalent of a classroom dunce. Why mapping the human brain matters 2013-02-20T13:00:00Z A dunce's hat, though, for not providing any chairs. Davos diary: Boris Johnson lured into town with a little help from the gasman 2013-01-25T19:37:14Z I am currently a senior at Fordham University, the school that your colleague, Mr. Watters, painted as a gated community of dunces through intensive editing and selective exposure in this video. When will Ailes rein in O’Reilly? 2012-12-06T20:37:00Z But what they are really buying is “a dunce hat in disguise” because employers have less respect than ever for a degree that comes from a second-tier university. Why College May Be Totally Free Within 10 Years 2012-10-12T15:05:40Z Link to this 11. dunce 12:52 am 05/16/2012 The drugs may contribute to the increase by the factor of 35 but government policy is the major factor. What Are Science's Ugliest Experiments? 2012-05-16T18:17:22.753Z It’s my opinion, and I have it from St. Catherine, he should have been set on the dunce block and made to study Malthus. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The larger class are honest dupes and dunces, while the others are hypocrites and impostors. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z In my class there was a boy, a very little boy, who had been a dux at school and was a dunce at college. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z A dunce would not need to be told that it was perfect. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Whenever his wife protested he would bring her to terms by threatening to tell the Good Jew that she would have her son brought up as a dunce. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z By some, indeed, it was alleged that the veriest dunces, if of loyal stock, might look to escape on these occasions; but I treat this as a calumny. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z What a dunce he had been to neglect that branch of occult study! Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z A genius has been known to beget a dunce. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z But the dunce loitered, trimming wicks, and casting sidewise looks at me. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z There, you impudent little dunce, if you want to call me any more names, don't hesitate. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z But even a history dunce like me knew much of what was "revealed". Rewind radio: The Art of Monarchy; Nature; Sport and the British; PM 2012-02-12T00:06:21Z For studying my lessons, So as not to be a dunce, Papa gave me eight dollars, That I mean to spend at once. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Maggie wished she were not such a dunce, that she could read a little and write a little, and that she had some slight knowledge of figures. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Why should he be a dunce when I have taught him? Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z It is hard for a boy to learn that he may be mistaken; but, unless he is a dunce, he learns it after a while. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Alas! that his name should be preserved for most people only in the familiar satiric appellation 'dunce.' The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z They laugh at everything, these sons of "the grave Spaniard," and even the teacher will duck his head behind the desk for a half-hidden ecstasy over some dunce's blunder or some rogue's detected trick. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z It took me so quick that it felt like a kick— I flew all to pieces at once; Sez I, "You kin go—I'm not wanting a beau;" I acted, I know, like a dunce. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z She strove in vain, then called me dunce, and vowed what brains I had were in my feet. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z On his head was the tall sort of cap that clowns and the old-fashioned school dunce wore. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z But though he begins his travels as a dunce, Sancho by no means remains one. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Reptiles and Dogs, and all those dreary things, Bespeak the mind from whence such slander springs; Dirt thou may'st throw—the dunce's last retreat, For none but dunces will thy lines repeat. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z "I know the village though, was sent there once A-schoolin', 'cause to home I played the dunce!" Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z "He is a dunce," said Mr. Butler, with a shrug. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z When I went to school, at which time the passion wore off, I was a perfect dunce at ciphering, and have continued so ever since. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z From dunderheads and dunces we can protect ourselves; but from your sharp-witted gentleman, all enlightenment and no prejudice, we have but to cry, "Heaven defend us!" Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Addison said that the "appearance of a man of genius in the world may always be known by the virulence of dunces." Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z As she left the boys she remarked, well those are certainly the greatest dunces that I have ever seen. Life Gleanings 2011-12-01T03:00:23.890Z You have some experience of cranks who accuse themselves of crimes of which they are innocent; you take it for granted that I am one of them, which shows what a dunce you are. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z And, sure, he could immediately be sentenced to coaching the season while wearing a dunce cap. Leading Off: At Syracuse, a Sudden Pivot - Leading Off 2011-11-28T17:12:16Z But if he lets it go for less than forty lire he is a dunce, and that's what I say. Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga 2011-11-12T03:00:38.073Z "Some Cavaliers that were restored," he says, "were good scholars, but the majority were dunces." Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z He became the common butt of boys and masters, was pointed at as a fright in the play-ground, and flogged as a dunce in the schoolroom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z A man who comes here to squander his money for anything like that is a dunce, and ought to have a guardian appointed over him. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z Netscape, Microsoft’s first big challenger on the Web, went from darling to dunce when they chased the business market. Steve Jobs' Final Lesson to Me, Microsoft, Google and Obama 2011-10-27T22:28:18Z Why should it be easier to believe that Gentiles are dunces than that Jews are clever? The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z "No, Mike, not a kid, but a dunce." The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Here he went to the village school, but like many thoughtful boys he passed for a dunce. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z "Well, of all the plumb dunces that ever I saw, you are the beat!" said Casper, getting up and putting on his hat. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z In China, it means angry hordes parading victims wearing dunce caps through the streets before stringing them up in public squares. China 101: The Senate's Currency Bill Was Exactly the Wrong Thing to Do 2011-10-12T20:05:20Z Come on, Mr. Popish Bishop or Priest; advance, Mr. Bishop Hughes, of Jesuit and intrigue notoriety; hold up your head, thou demure, plotting dunce, Bishop Fenwick, of Boston. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The devil take all dunces! thou hast lost a brave employment, by not being a linguist, and for want of behaviour. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z “Why, do you think me such a dunce?” Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z "Of all the dunces I ever saw, those two fellows are the beat!" said he, as he took his way toward his room. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z But somewhere, unless I am a dunce, she keeps secreted the fortune of Claes, that heretic, you remember, who was burned alive at Damme—seven hundred caroluses in all, and liable to confiscation. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z But it was a pretty stupid thing he did, giving bribes to a dunce like Manes. Michael G. Dowd Has Spent Career Defending Battered Women 2011-10-03T02:10:09Z But in such case, I ask you, you dunce, have you anything better to offer, and why are you staying there where you settled? Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Or it might be the simultaneous hourly contact with an opposite type of man—the kindly, unaffected dunce—the unburnished nugget, reeking yet of the Australian soil, but with the gold wearing brighter every day. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Sure I will; but they are plumb dunces if they try to work that mine. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z Stockton's a whale for details but a dunce at technicalities. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Robert Manning of Brunne was more of a literary critic; the passage in which he deals severely with the contemporary rhyming dunces is singularly interesting in a time when literary criticism is rare. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z He called me a dunce, but I saw he was pleased with it. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The dreadful practices of first making children self-conscious and apparently dull by abuse and formalism, and then calling them “fools,” or “stupid,” or “dunces,” are happily not so common now. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z It was quite true that I was a dunce. The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z My education, such as it was, had been fitful incomplete, and in a word, Indian; and I had come back much older than most European boys have to come home, a sad dunce. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z If two men, the offspring of the same parents, can be the one a dunce, the other a genius, why cannot different races, though descended of the same stock, be different also in intellectual endowments? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Whoever can't understand that is a dunce and not a soldier. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z “Because I am such a dunce!” gasped Laura, through her tears, and with both hands over her face. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z I dare say, at home and in the country, he was thought to be fit to run alone; and yet there he is, a regular dunce! The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z It's a very Seattle story to hear that a GM has raided the city's football talent, and we're not sure whether he's a genius or dunce. Live from Nashville, aka Seattle South: An interview with the architect, Mike Reinfeldt 2011-08-09T05:43:19Z Do you think I enjoy spending my time with a dunce? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z I recollected too that when my parents sent me from home my grandfather blessed me, and said, 'Remember, you dunce, that you are a noble. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z And I say you sent me your very worst—as thick-headed, stupid a dunce as ever entered the place. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z You will learn to write and read, which is only play after all to any one who does not wish to remain a dunce. King Matthias and the Beggar Boy 2011-07-24T02:00:11.047Z And after a bit of time, all of them have been generally proclaimed as dunces for X or Y reasons. Is there a manager alive out there good enough for Mariners baseball fans? 2011-07-22T17:01:06Z Who but some impenetrable dunce or narrow-minded puritan in works of art ever read without delight the picture which Burns has drawn of the convivial exaltation of the rustic adventurer Tam o’ Shanter?’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Then followed very properly the dunce cap and the fool stool. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z The child that does not these things know, Might well be called a dunce; But I in knowledge quick will grow, For youth can come but once. National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z Yet our modern tinselled dunces have taken the place of the one who, in her lifetime, was made almost oppressively great—almost too colossal in her supremacy. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z He would be ridiculously advanced in mathematics and a dunce at grammar, or historian to his finger-tips and ignorant that two and two make four. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z In our wide world, there is but one altogether fatal personage,—the dunce,—he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Perhaps the most striking example of this was Sir Isaac Newton, who was actually called a dunce, and yet the world would welcome a few other such dunces. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Don't make me out a greater dunce than I am." Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z That I am wise, that Pallas is a dunce— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z “Only dunces never contradict themselves,” he often said. Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border 2011-05-26T02:00:20.467Z This enduring of transgressors includes a greater enduring still of fools and dunces, although the great world makes war on these three tolerated sects in just the contrary ratio. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z I, doting dunce, courted her once, And she is reckoned shady! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z Suffice to say, they must have thought me a complete dunce, since Mr Rudd was so obviously the coming man. Dumbing down? 2011-05-18T09:07:01Z I have no brother, dunce,' said Mrs. Theresa. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z The very idea of letting a dunce like that in? A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z Blake’s MSS. contain an occasional allusion expressive of no ardent reverence for the person or family of that insane Dagon, so long left standing as the leaden rather than brazen idol of hypocrites and dunces. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Yet, as much a dunce and fool as he was, he made his party good against them all. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z And nobody calls you a dunce, And people suppose me clever; This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z At Doctor Middleton's school there was a great tall dunce of the name of Fisher, who never could be taught how to look out a word in the dictionary. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z My cousins will think me a dunce indeed if you herald me thus. 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 All this he could have done in a steady hand, and with choice diction; for Richard Swinton was neither dunce nor ignoramus. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Certainly," said the governor, "or else I am the greatest dunce in the world. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z And it would all have gone well enough, David, if you had not been such a dunce. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z “Who says I’m a dunce?” she demanded of her innermost self. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Whosoever he was, he certainly was no dunce in the use of his weapon, and with all Timothy's skill he had much ado to hold his own. 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 We cannot join in the whole of his white-washing, but we may admit that he has proved the "plaisant abb�" to be neither the dunce nor the blackguard that legend had painted him. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z She was a kind land to me once, Charley, I had real joy in her once; Her folk loved Shakespeare and Byron, Shunned no dreamer for a dunce. Two Fishers, and Other Poems 2011-04-08T02:00:09.700Z So then Jochen signed his name, and the two old dunces rode off, very well satisfied with the transaction. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Drives away the black spirits from the birth-bed—isn't that what the dunces say? The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Woods is scoring about a D. For dunce. Masters 2011: Why we can rule out a new reign of Tiger Woods 2011-04-02T23:17:18Z They always understand every word in the dictionary and you are—you are just a dear little dunce, after all!” Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z King Of course twinkling begins with a T. Do you take me for a dunce? Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" 2011-03-28T02:00:20.647Z Gustaving," he cried spitefully, "you will be an awkward fellow all your days, you are a regular dunce! Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z He was no dunce either, and the man above all others upon whose coat tail it would not have been safe to “trid.” Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z End-of-term report As headmaster I'm embarrassed to admit that we saw little of this youngster last year, mainly because he spent most lessons facing the corner with a dunce's cap on his head. F1 2011 team guide: Virgin 2011-03-21T12:00:08Z I’d hate it too if I were as big a dunce as you.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z I quite enjoy my lessons with him, only he must think me such a dunce. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z "Well, I will never, in my life, go on any business again with such a dunce." Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z I wish sincerely, Tom, that we may have seen the last of a teaching that for one whom it made accomplished and well-informed, converted fifty into pedants, and left a hundred dunces! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Minus, numskull, drivelling baby, Greenhorn, dunce, and dotard Gaby; All the queer and loony chorus Found in old Roget’s Thesaurus, Flat and crazy through and through, That, O Idiot—that is you. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z I’m a dunce, I don’t know as much as Lottie does—not nearly.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z He has a wonderfully pleasant way of teaching, and instead of only telling us we are dunces and blockheads, like Mr. R., he helps us not to remain so. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z It is my firm conviction that my prose is quite equal to my poetry, and yet these dunces persist in saying that we poets can't write prose. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z “Grace said you could do an errand right; but it seems you’re quite as big a dunce as your sister.” Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z The presidential adviser Clark Clifford’s characterization of him as an “amiable dunce” was widely accepted in Democratic circles. Reagan Gets Many Returns for His 100th Birthday: Albert R. Hunt 2011-02-13T16:04:39Z Every generation of Winklers had seen to it that the young ones acquired a sound, simple, thorough education; and among them poor Uncle Franz had stood out as the “dunce.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z I wrote what I thought an excellent set of answers, but they proved sadly deficient, and I am afraid I am a dunce.... Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Counting in the dunce's stool, we, with you and Robert, make sixty-one, and the upper class-room cannot accommodate more than sixty. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z “Grace is not a dunce, Cora Courtney!” exclaimed the boy, with some show of spirit, as he started his car, not having shut off his engine. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z We men, before the great picture of the destinies of the universe, play the part of such dunces, such novices in art. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z I wonder what they send such a stupid dunce here for!' Strive and Thrive or, Stories for the Example and Encouragement of the Young 2011-02-07T03:00:25.547Z Poor Tom, they’re heathen Greek to you— Those curiously-formed letters; But you must learn them all, my boy, And break the dunce’s fetters. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z O, come off, you dunce, you have just trusted money with me; are you afraid to lend me words? Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z And Walter is as big a dunce as his sister,” declared Cora, crossly. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z He was the dunce of the family, he told Caroline, and after having been educated at the local Grammar School, he had been given a clerkship, at the age of eighteen, in a local bank. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z The dunces held weekly meetings to project hostilities against the satirical critic, whose keen weapon had cut them to the quick. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z He flunked AT&T, "the dunce of the group," for failing to ship a Froyo upgrade for any of its Android phones. Faster Forward: Android updates lag 2011-01-20T16:24:43Z How natural then the inference, that instead, as in old times, immortalizing a genius, a portrait now only dayalized a dunce. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z She supposed that he wished her to understand as much; and either he took Garth for a dunce or intended him to understand it too. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z “Scriblerus’” account of the sessions of the dunces is more allusive and particularized than the rest of the poem and consequently calls for somewhat more detailed comment. The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue 2011-01-05T03:00:54.800Z I believe, in giving you this advice, I prove myself to be a truer friend than if I had continued to let you think me a dunce. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z He said that Cicero was a windbag, and that Plato was a dunce. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z "Well, you are an ignorant dunce!" he exclaimed. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z To serve the always-malcontent, and give their spleen a chance for vent, a knave, a dunce, a stump! would do as well, my boy, as I, or you. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z "An alleged dunce is going like The Don," raged the Herald Sun as Cook walked out to bat for a third day in a row. The Ashes 2010: Australia hit the wall in Homeric bowling struggle 2010-12-05T15:17:00Z I’m still a dunce Saturday, doing no better. Metropolitan Diary 2010-10-18T06:00:00Z Not only did I not have Newell, I had, in a complete dunce move, failed to get a contact number for him at his friend's. Reporter recalls lunch with coaching greats John Wooden, Marv Harshman, Pete Newell 2010-06-08T02:15:00Z When it comes to bad decision making, these folks deserve their dunce caps. Goldman Wasn?t Alone 2010-04-23T05:00:00Z In a letter she urged Greeks to help their country, saying she did not want it to be "treated like a dunce". Singer Mouskouri offers Greece her EU pension 2010-03-03T11:26:00Z Stern was well within his rights to move on Arenas, effectively sending him into a corner and having him wear a well-earned dunce cap. 2010-01-08T07:49:00Z And this imposture is likely to be palmed off upon the people in the future, as it has been in the past, if they are such dunces as to permit it to be done. A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District If there is any bigger dunce on earth than I am I should like to meet him—just as a matter of curiosity. Stranded in Arcady Good old Cis! he was always a dunce! To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Napoleon and Wellington were both dull boys, and Lincoln often said that he was a dunce through his early years. What You Can Do With Your Will Power "I'm not a dunce," George said, trying to hold his temper. The Guarded Heights This man was a great dunce; he had lived to be sixty-six years of age without earning a farthing except by rowing, and had died a year before, a pauper. Magnhild Dust Do not put names on the guest cards; let each draw a card from a dunce cap. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Wits and dunces contribute their share, and Diderot as well as Desmaretz are candidates for oblivion. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 And because he displays the spirit of an energetic business man, because his capacity for speculating occasionally overwhelms blockheads and dunces, he is decried as a ravenous wolf. The Progressionists, and Angela. So she grew up a very dunce; And when her parents died, She knew not how to teach a school, Nor work, if she had tried. Little Frankie at School He alarmed me, though not as Henley did, for I never left his house thinking myself fool or dunce. The Trembling of the Veil For an April fool luncheon write your invitations in red ink on dunce caps, cut out of yellow paper and seal with red seal. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Some of them wonder, perhaps, if Uncle Frank really takes his readers for a set of little dunces. The Peddler's Boy Or; I'll Be Somebody Do you suppose that I am blind, and a dunce in the bargain? Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind They have four churches, built with clapboards and shingles, and supplied with four ministers,—one a scholar, one a gentleman, one a dunce, and one a clown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 I am not a dunce and I am not impudent. Maximina Light your table by red candles with yellow dunce cap shades. Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions I jumped overboard from the yacht 'cause I didn't want to let Mr. Grimes get his hands on me, an' I'd be the biggest kind of a dunce to put myself in his way ag'in. No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone We have discovered that there are no dunces except the people who were the vogue yesterday. The Book of This and That The refractory pupil who would not learn his lessons was condemned to sit on the dunce stool, wearing the tall pointed cap. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation Fool! dunce! impudent!" cried the girl, with more and more anger, "I do not love you; but if I did, this would be enough to make me hate you! Maximina Nor think this censure is severe on thee; Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Pope’s Dunciad, the culmination of their long quarrel, has done its work well, and Cibber, now too often regarded merely as a pretentious dunce, has been relegated to an undeserved obscurity. A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope We dunces were lost had not this book plucked us out of the mire. A Short History of French Literature He was wearing on his head a blue dunce cap which also had white stars on it. The Eye of Wilbur Mook He was in the same class with us at college, and we all considered him a dunce. A Modern Wizard Of the backward ones I say nothing, for Phil’s wits are as ready as any boy’s, and he is decidedly not a dunce. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War It is necessary that some rich men be dunces, because pretenders to learning may get preferment, and good wits will be able to help themselves. The Handbook of Conundrums Any dunce may easily be either the one or the other, but the chief puzzle with most men is, how to be both. Holiday House A Series of Tales To deny food, to deny clothes, to deny houses, to deny sunshine, grass, rivers even, requires no mental effort of any kind, and is the part of a dunce and an ignoramus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Us was a downright dunce to you, my son. The Three Mulla-mulgars Dean Swift says: "When a great genius appears in the world, the dunces are all in confederacy against him." History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia I was compelled to acknowledge myself a dunce, and to explain to them that my education in early youth had been in this particular science dreadfully neglected. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa "One can't play forever unless one wants to be a dunce." Helen Grant's Schooldays II, and was very fearful that he might consider her a perfect dunce. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days “And still,” he continued “you have followed the sea three years, what a dunce you are.” Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant Y llevaron me eutonces to the temple, for the dunces Didn't know that more than once his life the stranger tried to beg. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Still, there could be no doubt as to his natural intelligence, but the dunces in my immediate circle were very few. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections At 3 per cent., the cap will be like a dunce's cap, and more than half an inch high. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Indeed, thou dunce!" said Wachis, as he killed the gadflies; "in our country the horse eats before the rider! A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 I found, however, too soon, that his lordship was a greater dunce than myself; and from that very moment flattery was at an end. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Much as you've discovered touching chemic laws and powers, Strange, that you should, till now, never have discovered how Many foolish dunces there are in this world of ours! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) “Serve you right, you dunce!” the Prince said. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Together with his works, he hath bequeathed me his dunces. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Whether a boy happens to be a dunce at school or a youth of brilliant promise, his future intellectual career will depend very much on his moral force. The Intellectual Life "Oh!" she said, in a small voice, and remained staring at the wall, like a naughty child on a dunce's stool. The Enormous Room Lesbia sometimes, squashed flat by a sarcasm, felt she was metaphorically placed on a stool with a dunce's cap on her head. Loyal to the School The venerable deputation stood in silent reverence, staring at the prophet like so many dunces; it seemed as though a god was speaking in him. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors We have here a picture of Miss Judith standing on the dunce block for not learning her lesson. Doctor Bolus and His Patients Another popular modern writer has also encouraged us by giving a long list of dunces who have become illustrious. The Intellectual Life "That boy Marcy is a plum dunce to act the way he is doing now," said the captain, after a little pause. Marcy The Refugee After he had been two years at the night-school, so far from considering him a dunce, I regarded him as an amazingly clever lad. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Can that man who wanders yonder Be a lover or a dunce? Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine The dunce block and dunce cap are now out of fashion; perhaps if they were more used in school, we should have fewer grown up dunces in the world. Doctor Bolus and His Patients "No, little dunce; I mean it's the letter U," said Eva, squeezing her. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in And even if he should be dunce enough to hire him, how could Kelsey find out whether or not there was any money in the house? Marcy The Refugee If my ideas of good company are too refined, too just, too high, to be satisfied in the slandering circles of coquettes, dunces, and gamblers, am I to be called unsociable? The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. In that delightful land dunces were all dumb. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) For a fellow that’s so smart at some things you are the biggest dunce I know, in others. A Daughter of the Forest Let none but guests or clubbers hither come; Let dunces, fools, and sordid men keep home; Let learned, civil, merry men b' invited, And modest, too; nor be choice liquor slighted. Old and New London Volume I What joy when the little dunce made his first attempt with chalk on a board: the letters are dictated to him—"write l and ó, and then pronounce them both together." Timar's Two Worlds The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil, ‘But are ye sure he’s not a dunce?’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Here was an anonymous person who, as Newman described it, "calls one pope a weak and venal dunce, and another a sacrilegious swindler, an infamous convict, and an heresiarch ex cathedrâ." The History of Freedom A dunce, that no one would have branded for having brains, has from a mere tumble given up the ghost. The Advocate Hoary Time is a beginner, Life a bungler, Death a dunce. Poems If every dunce should be a slave, your servitude is inevitable; and richly do you deserve the lash for your obtuseness. Thoughts on African Colonization Why, really one might ask the same thing, in regard to every man proposed for whatsoever function; and consider it as the one inquiry needful: Are ye sure he’s not a dunce? English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century And, if you were not so consequential, you long branches, you would not shout loud, for, after all, it's annoying to have people find out what dunces you are. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories But no one save a dunce can find them dull: and their variety is astonishing when one remembers that the writer was, for great part of his life, a kind of recluse. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing You know I am homo unius linguæ: in English—illiterate, a dunce, a ninny.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects A dunce can herd swine and drive cattle! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Let our goblet be the skull Of a fool; made beautiful With a gold nor base nor dull: Gold of madcap fancies, once It contained, that,—sage or dunce,— Each can read whoever runs. Weeds by the Wall Verses Pope, in satirising the University as a nest of dunces, considered the followers of Aristotle as so many stalled oxen, “fat bulls of Basan.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Twenty froggies grew up fast; Bullfrogs they became at last; Not one dunce among the lot, Not one lesson they forgot. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 In old days, young men had to study; they didn't want to be called dunces, so they had to work hard whether they liked it or not. Fathers and Children Nor was he a dunce; for, thanks to an evening school, which some of his Sunday teachers had opened in the village, he had learned to read and write very fairly. Happy Days for Boys and Girls And the stripes were not altogether wasted, for the dunce, though still very “raw,” made progress with his studies. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Taylor is a more creditable dunce than Webster. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors And Sarah White sit down at once, And Susan Black you are a dunce, And Annie Grey you needn't think I didn't see you spill the ink. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 “If he’d wanted to run, if he’d had anything to run from, he could ’a’ gone last night, couldn’t he, you dunce?” The Bondboy "Nobody," as Mr. Browning has it, "calls him a dunce." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The personalities of the satire excited a keen interest, and much amusement to readers who were not included in Pope's black list of dunces. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) But the Chancellor of Lincoln was to be outrageously degraded among the dunces! that was the real motive; the “nocturnal assemblies” only the ostensible one. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Now I want all good children in my school, Don't want a single dunce, bad girl or fool, So I will kindly ask you to be brave, And try to very, very well behave. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 “His mother was a Walker, from Ellinoi, dunce!” corrected his wife. The Bondboy She was back in school again, the dunce of the class, and abject discouragements alternated with spurts of zeal. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards His satire is often unjust, and he includes among the dunces men wholly undeserving of the name, who had had the misfortune to offend him. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Dr. Taylor, the learned editor of Demosthenes, he selects from “his fellows,” that is, other dunces: a delicacy of expression which offended scholars. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors He's lolling now against a post; But if you've seen him once, You'll know the lad among a host For what he is—a dunce. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 The vulgar satirist is such a one as Hazlitt somewhere mentioned who called Wordsworth a dunce. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I used to feel that my teachers never sympathized with me, and that my father thought that I was stupid, and at last I almost decided that I must really be a dunce. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades He was far indeed from being a dunce; but just as certainly he was not a poet, unless the title be given to him by courtesy. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst. The One Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train For boys not half so old as he Above him swiftly pass, While Sam, the great big dunce! remains The lowest in the class. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Or if it proved that yours was not, I should be amused at the shallowness of the Claire that was, for having been so simple a dunce as to imagine that you were worth while. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author Oh, yes, it has; I mean, I don't allow myself to be such a dunce, even in my own thoughts. A Noble Woman The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea—but, that one being “Snark,” The good Bellman engaged him at once. The Hunting of the Snark an Agony, in Eight Fits And I––I have been a dunce, dancing attendance all these days! The Strollers So, as you wish to be a dunce, Pray go and fetch me them at once; For if you will not learn to spell, 'Tis vain to think of reading well. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Are you a hopeless dunce by training or nature?” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Dr. Adam Clarke, the celebrated divine, scholar, and philanthropist, was a regular dunce in his early youth. The Curse of Education He was a dunce, a parasite, a coxcomb, a Paul Pry, had a quick observation, a retentive memory, and accordingly—he has become immortal! James Boswell Famous Scots Series “And such dunces sit in judgment!” he muttered to the scholar. The Strollers From the Infant School of Birmingham wrote Professor Dory Heller: "Just put on them a fool's cap, marked 'dunce,' 'thief,' or 'story-teller'." Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Have you never heard the story of the good old country school With its rude split-bottomed benches and its ancient dunce's stool? The Loom of Life Another 'impenetrable dunce,' according to the opinion of his tutor, an eminent Dublin scholar, was Richard Sheridan. The Curse of Education “After all, Harry was no dunce, but he was not yet convinced.” 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry "You dunce, what was it scratched your sister's face?" The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. As this was so, you'll see at once That Fan grew up a silly dunce: An there was nothing to admire About her, but her fine attire. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 "Do you take me for a dunce?" asked the captain, in reply. Marcy The Blockade Runner He was long described by his Spartan mother, who thought him a dunce, as only 'food for powder.' The Curse of Education "So am I," said Denny, who had likewise armed herself with a book, though she was rather a dunce for her age, and couldn't read "runningly" as French people say. The Adventures of Herr Baby "Hold your tongue, you dunce; where does the sun rise?" The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. What then, have they all some employment but me, Who lie lounging here like a dunce? Pinafore Palace ‘Why,’ said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about—‘that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce.’ Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Turning to literary men, we find an imposing array of dunces. The Curse of Education Idle Richard, the third son of the Bad Family, is a great dunce. The Bad Family & Other Stories The teacher said, “Of all sad things, I would not be a dunce, But would learn to write and cipher, And begin the work at once.” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad "I was a plumb dunce for placing any dependence on those dogs," replied the Emergency man, as soon as his surprise and anger would permit him to speak. Rodney The Partisan The dunces, not Pope, ridicule the epic world by their words and deeds; but in turn, this world ridicules them simply by being "imitated" and incorporated in The Dunciad. An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad It was not an institution particularly for the daughters of wealthy people, nor a school to which disheartened parents could send either unruly girls, or dunces. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery A fool, a dunce, or a bad man does harm and not good in the world. The Bad Family & Other Stories Aristotle, that master of arts, Had been but a dunce without wine, And what we ascribe to his parts, Is due to the juice of the vine. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness Kyril's girl, the Dolores, was very chic and looked ravishingly pretty, and brother-in-law Max isn't the dunce I took him for. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess A dunce is always averse to study; a good student is disinclined to it when a fine morning tempts him out; he is indisposed to it in some hour of weariness. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Lilly White, the dunce of the school, had hers written by the beginning of study hours. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story "Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce." Practical Education, Volume II If, by some unlucky management, a vivacious child acquires a dislike to literary application, he may appear at his books with all the stupid apathy of a dunce. Practical Education, Volume I I want to promote my education by attending lectures, by going to the theatre—in short, I don't want to become a dunce and a bell-jingling fool like the others. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess God grant that in the far-off years He finds no dunce's stool, Whereon to weep with foolish tears When Willie goes to school! Oklahoma Sunshine There was one dunce in her mathematical class who gave her great annoyance; it was Carrie Smyth, a Southern girl, into whose dull head no figures ever penetrated. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story Fabio— No, surely; But I have made up my mind That you are the prince of dunces, Not to understand her wish. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Perhaps, at the time when he showed this energy about a game at dice, Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book, and a foolish schoolmaster might have made him a dunce. Practical Education, Volume I Young Copperhead, though he was a dunce, felt it, and showed an appreciation of better things in his determination not to leave the house where he had been so happy. Phoebe, Junior "You take me for a great dunce, Kitty, but I am not quite so bad as you imagine." A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School The "dunce" was isolated by village ridicule and contempt long before the term "moron" was coined, or the feeble-minded segregated in institutions and colonies. Introduction to the Science of Sociology At the last census only one in 10,000 could not read or write, and these dunces were all Slavs. Home Life in Germany He was a stupid dunce, and a rascal and a cheat into the bargain. The Land of Thor And he muttered something about dunces, and mollycoddles, and—yes! ’fraid-cats! The Tale of Jolly Robin Perhaps I am awfully stupid; They say I'm a dreadful dunce. Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly "I am a dunce at riddles," I admitted. The Master Mummer The French were two to one; but they were ill disciplined, and their general was a dunce. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) We know now that, short of real mental deficiency, there is or ought to be no such personage as the dunce. Progress and History How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature As you travel up the Yellowstone Valley from Livingstone to Gardiner you may note in abundance this "dunce of the plains." Wild Animals at Home "You are a dunce at many things," she replied. The Master Mummer Pert or lively dunces, who are not real dull, will come in of due course. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 And just as the criminal points to serious defects in our social system, so the dunce points to serious defects in our educational system. Progress and History And yet I read in a paper somewhere lately that some wise dunce had proposed to ‘celebrate the fourth centennial of the discovery of America by Columbus’! Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 “Because you are a dunce,” said Miss Bruce. The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. We are the dunces of the school, and are dismissed without learning the accomplishments set forth upon the prospectus. Apologia Diffidentis Light stripes may suffice for quelling the less nocent dunces. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Hence it is, that the reputed dunce of the school, has not unfrequently become the ornament of the senate. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education Then you would have a set of dunces. The End of a Coil As commonly used nowadays this term is equivalent to "dunce," but it was originally employed as a law term. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young It was a kind of penitential class for dunces during play‑time. The Martian But the personal aggression on the wit by the dunce, may fairly instigate the wit to flay the dunce. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 “That’s all, my dear mamma, and now let me run And send it to heaven at once, For if He don’t get it by Christmas time, He surely will think me a dunce.” Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 The Florentine dunces in art are a multitude; but I only want you to know something about twenty of them. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving "I there learned fear for your sake, that I might teach it to you, Page 117 dunce." The Wagnerian Romances The last time I saw him he said I was incorrigible and a dunce. 'Firebrand' Trevison The scale is immeasurably aggrandized—multitudes of dunces are comprehended—the composition is elaborate—the mock-heroic, admirable in Dryden, is carried to perfection, and we have, sui generis, a regular epic poem. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Again, I have just now used the words 'poet' and 'dunce,' meaning the degree of each quality possible to average human nature. 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 As soon as Poll saw him she would begin, “You must go, or you’ll grow up a dunce.” Minnie's Pet Parrot "What a wretched little dunce I am!" she soliloquized. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter “That would convince me that I am the dunce my father said I was!” 'Firebrand' Trevison In this branch of elementary studies he had proved a failure and a dunce. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin "A parasite is a stale to him," for "a flatterer is a dunce to him." Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters Look at the fish," continued Beresynth, "who are dunces in many things. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ah! can a dunce in church or state So overflow with froth and hate? Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) I have no fear that either George or Ellen will grow up to be dunces. Child-Land Picture-Pages for the Little Ones But, Ben," he added, "I am sorry to say it, although you write your name so well, you are a dunce at doing your sums. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Whenever the boy saw the chief or his squaw looking at him, he assumed the role of a dunce, and it must be confessed he played it with unquestionable fidelity to nature. Camp-fire and Wigwam "I was a dunce," he repeated over and over again. The Mission of Janice Day You may not be a dunce: your post Is foremost, and before the host. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) I am sorry to see that boy with the dunce’s cap standing there in the middle of the school. Child-Land Picture-Pages for the Little Ones And what a dunce I was to go to that silly meeting and get myself mixed up in it.” Eve to the Rescue He's an infernal dunce, just his father owre again, and the Dominie thrashes him remorseless! The House with the Green Shutters “Well, you tried to draw mine,” responded the professor, dropping into normal English, “but as the dunce’s tie is far up the back of his collar, I leave the audience to decide whose it is.” The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity It was to be a crushing attack upon the modern school of literature—a sound thrashing administered in public to these pretenders, these dunces. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 The diligent schoolboy generally becomes a successful man, but a dunce seldom gets on in after-life. Child-Land Picture-Pages for the Little Ones "He has told me that you were an angel once—and he has wronged you, the dunce and dulbert—you are an angel still." Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon I could tell the clever men from the dunces! Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes His distress reached its height on his seeing that the eyes of his mother were resting on the big dunce, which stared in black letters from the wall. The Crown of Success A Man that’s gen’rous all at once May dupe a novice or a dunce; But to no purpose are the snares He for the knowing ones prepares. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes "Yes, you dunce, and let a lull come," scornfully exclaimed the boyish pirate. Blackbeard: Buccaneer If I am as idle as you, I shall grow up a dunce, and what would papa say then? Pretty Tales for the Nursery Is it possible that I am a dunce? Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes H, dear! how frightful this great big dunce looks upon my wall!" cried poor Lubin; "and how shall I ever get rid of it? The Crown of Success Peggy Montfort, you are not a dunce at all; you are just shamming. Peggy “Well,—how?—what then?—speak out, you dunce!” Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." The English are undoubtedly our intellectual superiors; and as the virtues are solely the product of education—a rogue being only a dunce considered from another point of view—they are our moral superiors likewise. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 I was of course a dunce, for my brain was never steady enough to carry me over the Pons Asinorum, or to make a Latin verse with even decent correctness. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Can you bear to see that word dunce so terribly distinct on your wall? The Crown of Success By the end of the hour, Peggy was entirely convinced that she was the dunce and butt of the school; that she knew nothing, and never would know anything. Peggy I'm afraid from this you'll guess that I must have been a dunce at school myself. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life I suppose you want to grow up to be a great dunce. Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House I pass over the next few years, except to say that I went to college, where I was shunned by all, though never alone: was a dunce, and plucked twice. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But the fat little dunce might have added, "All play and no work will make Lubin a duller." The Crown of Success It was sweet to be thought a dunce for her dear sake. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 No.—But give me your hand, Sir Lucius, forget and forgive; but if ever I give you a chance of pickling me again, say Bob Acres is a dunce, that's all. The Rivals A Comedy "Yes," quoth the governor, "or I am the greatest dunce in the world! and now it shall appear whether I have a head to govern a whole kingdom." Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote "We dunces," wrote Montaigne, "would have been lost, had not this book raised us from the mire; thanks to it, we now venture to speak and write; ... it is our breviary." A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Do not be silly as well as dunces. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story "All able men," adds Macaulay, "ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller, a child who never knew his own mind an hour together; and yet he overreached them all." A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Had there been a single one among the prairie dogs that wasn't a dunce he would have run away from his hole, outside the village, to hide somewhere until Benny Badger left the place. The Tale of Benny Badger Suiting the action to the word, the silly little dunce Clambered down from his matchsafe and excitedly struck at once. The Jingle Book No wonder you are both noted dunces in your class—you are nothing but mouth and stomach! Peggy-Alone This little talk, much as he missed at the time its deeper meaning, saved Stephen from becoming a dunce. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Why," she declares, smilingly, "suppose I was to make myself miserable because you translated for the professor, you would think me no end of a dunce! Floyd Grandon's Honor Mr. Wise is a dunce, Mr. King is a whig, Mr. Coffin's uncommonly sprightly, And huge Mr. Little broke down in a gig, While driving fat Mrs. Golightly. The Romance of Names |
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