英语词汇“half-witted”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Her mind was so nimble and she was so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half-witted of parents. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Is it wise to build machines that might one day become smarter than us, and then decide to dispense with their half-witted creators? Opinion | How an AI safeword can protect you and your money 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Back in the days when The Simpsons was worth watching, half-witted actor Troy McClure proudly told us he had starred in a self-help video called 'Get Confident, Stupid'. 'England's positivity put to the test' 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

Out of what Infowars said were hundreds of submissions, my video — a half-witted, conspiratorial glance at the creation and function of the Federal Reserve — made it to the final round. I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

While a bit of a stretch, this was in keeping with the president’s long habit of half-witted ad hominems. Opinion | Trump spurs a Wild West of continuously worsening political rhetoric 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

She is shrewd enough to wheel and deal with half-witted intelligence officers but otherwise seems unexceptional. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Even a half-witted political memoir would grapple with such a disconnect — perhaps by acknowledging some fault in the boss, or by comparing his low points with those of other presidents. Review | Sean Spicer is still trying to gaslight America about President Trump 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Even a half-witted political memoir would grapple with such a disconnect — perhaps by acknowledging some fault in the boss, or perhaps by comparing his low points with those of other presidents. Sean Spicer's book is 'a bumbling effort at gaslighting Americans' 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

This half-witted hooligan, capering on the world stage with a box of Fun Snaps, creating mini-explosions in a spirit of devilment, is foreign secretary. The UK ignored the Irish abortion question for too long – it was a failure of solidarity 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The Trump era is a renaissance of half-witted intolerance. Opinion | The Trump era is a renaissance of half-witted intolerance 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Referring to a "half-witted rabble", he offered opposition activists the services of a Chechen psychiatric hospital to treat their "mass psychosis". Putin loyalist Kadyrov unleashed on Russian 'traitors' - BBC News 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” she directs the Rebel evacuation of Hoth and escapes with “stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder” Han Solo aboard the Millennium Falcon. Is it Wookie or Wookiee? The Times' definitive 'Star Wars' style guide 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Someone once called anti-Semitism the socialism of fools, meaning that imagining that Jewish financiers were responsible for inequality was a half-witted way of explaining it. When Gentrification Is Good 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, why are blonde and blue-eyed “Aryan” females so attractive to half-witted, half-Jews like me? Germany is the hypocritical worst: Arrogance, austerity — and zero sense of history 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

He may be a smuggler, a scoundrel, and stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder, but Solo is also — according to issue six of Marvel's comic — a married man. Marvel's Star Wars comic makes a massive change to Han Solo 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

I assume this was some sort of half-witted ploy to gain my trust, but there was no chance of that happening. Scamming Fake Microsoft Support Scammers 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

This is BS peddled to the half-witted and politicians by business volks trying to maximise their profits at the expense of tax-payers and society. Recovery on track, but not racing ahead 2013-04-25T13:44:21Z

So is The Last of Us representative of this new wave of ultraviolence – and empty, half-witted celebration of super-detailed gore effects? Does The Last of Us fetishise violence? 2012-06-20T10:52:11Z

Occasionally the nuns seem to have resented or resisted these attempts to foist the deformed and the half-witted upon them. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z

His "predecessor" was a foolish dog, not more than "half-witted." A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z

No more, for with a shrill laugh the man next me, a mere lad, half-witted, I think, and the same who had cursed them, sprang by me and rushed on the pike-points. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z

These lived at home with her and her father, but were, unfortunately, half-witted. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z

It was this terrible secret that had made her so silent and strange, this that had driven her neighbours to look upon her as half-witted. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z

Then, as afterward, the accusations fell chiefly upon women; the old, friendless, or half-witted bearing the burden of every accident in their neighborhood. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z

That Monthly Magazine is read by all the Dissenters—I call it the Dissenters’ Obituary—and here are you eternally mining, mining, under the shallow faith of their half-learned, half-witted, half-paid, half-starved pastors. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z

Then their driver, a half-witted fellow, who said that they had engaged him at Rodez, though he denied stoutly that he had seen the Capuchin, told two or three tales. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z

The only inhabitant remaining in the town was a poor half-witted Spaniard, who had not clearly ascertained what he ought to67 do. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z

Plowing along, his head down and his whip in hand came Terry, the half-witted boy who, Winter and Summer, drove the cows from their field or barn to the slaughter house. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z

He is a half-witted lad, or rather quite mad. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z

But I am left to the tender mercies of half-witted domestics, in order that my daughter may go out to tea—may trapese from one scandal-exchange to another! A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z

How can I tell what a half-witted man knows of me, or thinks he knows? A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z

Folks about here make no bones of telling me that they were both half-witted, only as she's my sister, they try to give me to understand as she caught it from him. Sunshine Jane 2011-11-12T03:00:30.717Z

But the doctor put the half-witted lad aside and examined the child. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z

There was a poor half-witted Brahman who had a wife but no children. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z

To the monasteries flocked all classes, from fashionable knights broken down or unsuccessful or weary of conflict, to the half-witted clowns sheltered and utilized as lay-brethren. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z

But the shrewd, capable woman had schemed and plotted too, and had made use of her son, her poor half-witted Harry. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z

Like the half-witted boy who was questioned by the Tories, Monk exaggerated the situation, saying there were forty men in the fort then molding bullets in anticipation of an attack. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z

Money passed from the girl’s hand to that of the half-witted youth. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z

A harum-scarum sort of a young man was Andrew, and there were people in the parish who said he was only half-witted, but this was all nonsense. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z

This so incensed the soldier, that he instantly pulled out his holster pistol, and shot the poor half-witted creature through the head. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z

For now, at last, now that power had been wrested out of her own safe hands into the clutch of this designing woman, Lady Louisa owned to herself that Harry was half-witted. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z

“We’ll have to get that half-witted chap out of the way,” declared Duval, in a low tone, “or he may make an outcry and arouse the whole place.” The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z

Little Dorrit did not say who had taken pains to teach and encourage the poor half-witted creature, but Mr. Clennem guessed from the name Little Mother, and the fondness of the poor creature for Amy. Charles Dickens' Children Stories 2011-08-20T02:00:15.847Z

Then I called myself a fool for not taking a necessary step, and one which would have occurred immediately to any one that was not half-witted. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z

He seemed to be a simple, half-witted, harmless fellow, and assisted Lightfoot in doing the drudgery about the place. Fire Cloud The Mysterious Cave. A Story of Indians and Pirates. 2011-08-09T02:00:29.010Z

Then they talked of the political bearings, of the consequences, which the crime of the 18th February, the act of a half-witted creature, might have on the freedom of Austria. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z

I am 95 percent sure that half-witted followers of Breivik will soon appear in Russia, and not only in Russia. Norwegian killer causes Putin potential embarrassment 2011-07-26T13:44:38Z

They thought him a fool, and that he had the inquisitiveness of the half-witted to peer in at windows and see the pretty sights within. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z

The fellow perhaps was neither deaf nor half-witted," answered Aag�; "to you he naturally said fair words, in order to escape. 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

Think of me as half-witted,—idiotic,—but not that. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z

“He is some half-witted native,” said Hume, after a long pause. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z

They're just great big baby men, and as irresponsible as half-witted schoolboys. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z

My opponents would directly have found ways and means to represent me as a half-witted, tiresome visionary. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z

"Poor, fond creature, half-witted or half-crazed they call me; but He would have welcomed me." Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z

And, as he called, a raw-boned, half-witted boy shuffled forward, and squatted, with a horrible grin, in front of the terrified girl prisoners. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

So when he saw that she was the first to meet him, he was so cut to the heart he fell to the ground on the spot, and since that time had been almost half-witted. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z

Selden went to Boston where a half-witted group of parlour-socialists at Cambridge were talking too loudly and loosely to please even the most tolerant at Harvard. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z

A half-witted lad named Cossey, aged 20, was apprehended on the charge of murdering the woman. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z

The half-witted, crippled-up squaw-man with the two extremely desirable squaws came through, stopped for another bottle of hooch, and drove on and made camp just outside the settlement. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z

Cora and her friends, made prisoners in the cave by the old man and his horrible, grinning, half-witted helper, felt faint and sick as they realized what might be the outcome. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

Not even an echo gave answer to the half-witted creature's query; so he drew out some of the under logs, thus making the whole pile fall noisily down. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z

But, alas, it contained nothing but a half-witted old man’s keepsakes—scraps of his unutterable poetry, ribbon-tied parcels of yellowed love-letters, pressed flowers and a wisp of some woman’s hair. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z

It is quite possible he is half-witted, or something of that sort. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z

You see this baby and he sure is cute as a button—he's going to be a black buck when he grows up—but right now he hasn't the sense of a half-witted mud turtle. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z

The half-witted creature bounded forward, and caught up a club. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

The other day I wrote about undersized, half-witted fellows who were caught by our men, and said the German man-power must be wearing thin if they sent recruits like this. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z

He says Elfrida looks half-witted, and her sister looks like a full idiot. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z

"And perhaps," added Ellinor, "even if he is half-witted, we might do something to comfort the poor man." Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z

It seemed best to contrive to get a little note conveyed to the daughter's hands, and to invite her to a walk to the Fuchs-spitze; half-witted K�tchen might serve as an unsuspected messenger. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z

Then he saw the old man and the half-witted helper. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

The incendiary was discovered, it could be none other than half-witted K�tchen. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z

He was at the time of my visit a half-witted mendicant, p. 109one of the many objects of the late Lady Hester Stanhope’s benevolence, and one who, like herself, was subject to many extravagant eccentricities. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z

One evening while they sat there a half-witted contadino slouched out of the chapel and begged from them. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z

But here no bells are ringing--here no Ave Maria is sounded--half-witted K�tchen rows them out to sea. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z

A little later the two boys, with the old man and the half-witted helper, entered the main cave where they found Jack running about half wild with excitement. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

"To set fire to places," added Blanden by way of explanation, "is a mania of such half-witted beings." Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z

But how can the story be told when a Lear comes on the stage, who at his first appearance is broken-down and half-witted? Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z

He's got a brother and a twin sister half-witted. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z

It was half-witted K�tchen--he had recognised her at once. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z

To it they brought their machinery and began issuing tickets, Jason, aided by the half-witted Bombee, doing the printing, while the others distributed the product. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

Outside, he enquired of the half-witted porteress, for the little black lady from Italy. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z

To hell for all I care, you half-witted fool! The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z

There's some half-witted Indians prowl about here and they must have run it off. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z

The former had never belonged to the pious community, but, as legal assistant, had often imparted advice to Frau von Salden, and had also conducted the case instituted against half-witted K�tchen. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z

Occasionally, when the bungalow was not occupied, the men used it, and it was in this way that the big, half-witted youth learned to find his way there. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z

This is standard misdirection in stage magic: the lovely assistant or the seemingly half-witted helper, are really quite smart. Numberplay: The Playful Mr. Gardner 2010-06-07T19:45:00Z

"Once a brilliant but eccentric scientist, he now comes over as a half-witted clown," said one viewer. LSD inspired Doctor regeneration 2010-04-12T23:39:00Z

"Ay, ay, heart and body," says the younger, in a fit of laughter; "she has been seized by her husband, a half-witted idiot of a fellow, a native of the town of Selkirk." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13

Clearly she was insane, or at least half-witted, and was quite incapable of drawing reasonable conclusions. The Spy in Black

To his surprise he saw that they were making sport of a strange-looking lad of about his own age, who seemed to be only half-witted. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia

But actually she saw tears in the eyes of the half-witted giant now. The Broken Gate A Novel

I am often asked by my friends, who think the child is little more than half-witted, why I do not 'send her back, and get a brighter one.' The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them

If an Englishman had said the same thing, he would have been thought half-witted, but Orientals have a way of talking platitudes as if they were epigrams. The Unveiling of Lhasa

What punishment can be too severe for a half-witted farm hand who burns his master's haystack? The Book of This and That

Right ends, and means, make wisdom: worldly-wise Is but half-witted, at its highest praise. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

"Well, then, perhaps he's not half-witted, after all," said Burton. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance

Fourthly, the number among the negroes of those whom we should call half-witted men is very large. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

The half-witted creature emitted low, gurgling sounds of satisfaction. The Intriguers

Her fate was similar to that of the average woman of pleasure--forgotten, half-witted, stooping to any act of indecency to gain a few sous. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10)

When we drew nearer, I saw that it was Crazy Helen, an old half-witted woman who went about among the farms begging. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself

He sent a half-witted fellow into the Indian camp with the tale that a great American force was coming. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read

"Poor fellow! he is but half-witted at best," said Herbert. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago

“You can never trust these half-witted chaps,” he added. The Intriguers

Luther and Pascal were grand, and are grand still; the Obi is simply a poor half-witted creature. Toilers of the Sea

Amy did not say who had taken pains to teach and encourage the poor half-witted creature, but Mr. Clennam guessed from the name "little mother" and the fondness of the poor creature for Amy. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read

So they got hold of the witch, a brutish, ignorant, half-witted woman living in the village of Calder, and put her in prison, waiting her confession. Witch Stories

Eight or nine months ago I happened to be travelling in the diamond country, and it so happened that on this particular field there was a half-witted old lunatic who was everybody's butt. Long Live the King

There was also a good-natured creature named Tobe, half-witted and harmless, attached to the family, who did odd jobs for his board and keep, and had constituted himself a fixture. Checkers A Hard-luck Story

He had supposed until this moment that the six Brethren were following behind him; but he now discovered that, except for Silvia and the half-witted donkey-driver, he was quite alone. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children

The half-witted creature could not recall the names on the repetition of her confessions, but this failing does not seem to have awakened any doubt of her guilt. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Later, when David the smith was going to America and wished to leave his forge with the half-witted Billy, he proposed the smith’s work as play. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency

This was the place, then, of which the poor, old, half-witted diamond hunter had told Moreas. Long Live the King

At last her desire is realized: a son is born to her; but the child, conceived in madness, is born half-witted. Contemporary Russian Novelists

He was that half-witted, pumpkin-colored individual that you discharged last winter because he did not know enough to keep the horses' feet clean. The Daughter of a Republican

The Devonshire women were half-witted creatures, of the type that had always been most voluble in confession; but such were now exceptions. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

"You don't mean the half-witted woman—the poor crazy creature!" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851

There was nothing too mean, too repulsive, for the domestic brute—the cicisbeo, the priest, the half-witted page—to undergo, in the stupid belief that the power of a philtre increased with its nastiness. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

He drew the poor half-witted thing close to him and asked: “Can Vögelein tell me something about mamma, and how she went to sleep?” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8

They almost give one the feeling that they are half-witted, and yet they evidently are not. Four Ghost Stories

This might lead one to suppose that her answers were the haphazard replies of a half-witted woman. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Do you think we are 47 going to hang for you, you black-faced, half-witted, drunken brute and butcher? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25)

The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted. Legends & Romances of Brittany

On the contrary, he ever showed himself careful to please; and even if he rambled in his talk, rambled always gently—like a humane, half-witted old hero, true to his colours to the last. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25)

In that case somebody would have been almost half-witted. Aces Up

Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI

Grant whipped the whole school for teasing a little half-witted boy once–did you know that?” In the Heart of a Fool

In the weak, handsome face and roving eyes the young people recognised Gibbie, the half-witted gipsy lad. The Adventure League

She is a half-witted old soul who wanders about digging herbs in summer and lives on the town farm in winter. The Camerons of Highboro

Barnaby knew that folks called him half-witted, but he cared little for that. Tales from Dickens

For a long time the cries of that nameless female thing, as she struggled with her half-witted whelp, resounded through the house, and pierced me with despairing sorrow and disgust. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI

“Maybe some lunatic or half-witted person has taken up abode here.” Our Next-Door Neighbors

This, then, explained many things; not the least, the wonderful influence and control which Antonio had always maintained over his half-witted “left hand,” as the “boys” called the unfortunate hunchback. Jessica, the Heiress

My dear," she said pleasantly enough--though, of course, the term had no accent whatever of affection--"this half-witted brother of mine once in a while stumbles upon the most brilliant inspiration imaginable. Nobody

Not only did he let her live rent-free in a house he owned, but he did many a kind deed secretly for her half-witted son as he grew older. Tales from Dickens

In a second, the half-witted, ragamuffin Smiler bobbed his grinning face round the door post. The Spoilers of the Valley

It’s a new chap running it––a half-witted man from Texas. Nan of Music Mountain

One night a half-witted feller asked him how many men he'd chopped. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin

He was considered a half-witted sort of fellow, who inherited a little money and didn't know what business to engage in. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

For, while his persecutors were dragging him one day along the streets of the city in derision, a half-witted fisherman stabbed him dead with a knife. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture

I've always been concerned about your permitting that half-witted outlaw to come here! Sunlight Patch

Did the most absurd things, and appeared to be little more than half-witted. The Prairie Child

They would rather consult a half-witted errand boy or a deaf railroad porter. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman

He was a harmless, light-hearted fellow, whom some men called half-witted, but who was much cleverer than he appeared at first sight to be. Tales From Scottish Ballads

"He is a kind, of half-witted mischief-maker, who does not know what he wants, and gets in everybody's way?" An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story

Would you mind telling me how you happened to be hanging onto that stump, in rags, and looking half-witted when I—when I came by?” Seven Miles to Arden

The half-witted pedantry of the German doctrine and practice of war, which uses brutality as a protective mask for cowardice, was far from them. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force

The subject of Woman's Rights came up for discussion, and opinions were expressed pro and con, when suddenly there came striding up the aisle an awkward boy, half-witted and about half-drunk. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II

In novels, as you know," went on Don Carlos, paying no heed to her protest, "the fair heroine usually marries the gallant who rescues her, or her half-witted brother, or her aged parent, from drowning. Bandit Love

Among the prisoners of Arnold was a young half-witted fellow who was condemned to death. How the Flag Became Old Glory

“If ye were not half-witted, would ye mind telling me how we came to be taking the wrong road at the church?” Seven Miles to Arden

That half-witted fellow ought not to be allowed to go free. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life

The terrible crime which the unfortunate woman had committed at your instigation had turned her brain, as you anticipated, and she, docile and half-witted, was entirely beneath your influence until——” and he paused. The Seven Secrets

It is all right; she is the half-witted Indian girl—if she has any wits at all—of whom I was telling you. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France

They are perhaps passable portraits of the languid, half-witted, hydrocephalic creatures who made them. William Shakespeare

He looks as half-witted as those back in the Old Country who have the second sight and see the faeries. Seven Miles to Arden

We might as well be asked to give civic rights to cows and pigs as to this unhappy, half-witted race who can no more count than the beasts of the field. What I Saw in America

In addition to the men, a man and his wife who cook and take care of the camp, and a half-witted chore boy. The Writing of the Short Story

Isidore's pity for the half-witted girl was presently lost sight of in what had first been only the inconvenience, but had latterly become the positive suffering inflicted on him by those unfortunate boots of his. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France

Their name was derived from a half-witted man who had destroyed two stocking frames many years before. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

"Martha Brochel, your honour, a poor half-witted creature, who was one of the first in the town to lose a child," the door-porter replied; "and the shock of it has driven her mad!" Werwolves

The man who is known as Moole is a half-witted old farm labourer who was picked up by Farrington some years ago to serve his purpose. The Secret House

A half-witted middle-aged man, mooning among a litter of books, with an old woman, and a little Frenchman to look after him. The Light of Scarthey

Fortunately the settlers at Little Creek had been warned of their danger by a half-witted Indian orphan girl, on whom Pritchard had taken compassion some time before, and who had become domesticated amongst them. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France

"I've got a feelin' that if I were allowed to go into the forest, disguised, sir, as a sort of half-witted native chap, sir——" "Disguised!" said Hamilton. The Keepers of the King's Peace

She struck a chord, but the half-witted bellows-blower, whose presence they had forgotten, had ceased to pump air into the organ, and there came only a painful droning from the empty pipes. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg

But some said that Brock Cyrus’s half-witted boy was the cause of it. Blue Ridge Country

She is only half-witted, you know, and didn't do her teachers much credit. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

Once more the half-witted, shambling figure gave place to a sparkling, self-possessed, laughing young witch of fourteen, who with another mock curtsy introduced herself. A harum-scarum schoolgirl

He is a poor half-witted creature, and the temptation was too much for him.” The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps

I cannot say this too plainly: An Egyptian who has had reading and writing thrust on him is, in every case that I have met with, half-witted, silly, or incapable of taking care of himself. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

Rob MacNicol was doubtful; for he had never heard of this thing before; but he could not resist the importunities of the old half-witted creature. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

Clumsy, homely, and half-witted enough to sit on a tack for five minutes before he howled—I've seen him do just about that—he knows when he needs a protector. The Short Life

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law, in fact, that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Shut your mouth, child,—you look half-witted with it open that way. The Heart of Arethusa

“You were saying that Lydia was queer and half-witted,” said the Judge moderately. The Squirrel-Cage

The old, bent, half-witted man looked cautiously at the bed, in which Neil lay fast asleep. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

Aristippus was an excellent example of this, when overcome in argument by the 128sophistry of a man, who had plenty of assurance, but was generally speaking mad or half-witted. Plutarch's Morals

"An old neighbor of mine who is half-witted," replied the queen, quickly. Italian Popular Tales

Once she was a bright little thing, but she had fallen on her head, and though she did not seem much hurt at first, she became half-witted, and was now an idiot. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading

Robert, who was a half-witted old man, used to hang about the place, do odd jobs, and make himself fairly useful. The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge

This Daft Sandy, who will turn up in our history by-and-by, was a half-witted old man, who spent his life in fishing for flounders from a rotten old punt he had become possessed of. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

His favorite victim is some half-witted fellow—tho’ a customer who is partly deaf may do and he is always ready for a yokel or a foreigner. Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks

Once upon a time there was a king and queen who had a half-witted son. Italian Popular Tales

Once there came along a man who all said was half-witted. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

The people were very glad indeed to accept his services; and when they found that the child was only half-witted, they formally offered the crown of Macedon to Philip. The Story of the Greeks

The half-witted creature did not seem to see the point of this remark. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

The faithful half-witted lad who serves the king as his fool plays the jesting chorus on his master’s fortunes in penetrating earnest and deepens the desolating pathos. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles

In one of these an elderly, pinched little man who looked almost half-witted, was monotonously scraping a battered fiddle, for two solemn couples to dance round and round, always on the same axis. Lady Betty Across the Water

Old Becky, as she called herself, was a poor, harmless, half-witted woman, who roamed about the neighborhood, subsisting on charity, whom everybody knew and cared for. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

It is the same feeling that makes the half-witted attend funerals and church services. The Nebuly Coat

Macgregor had prevailed upon the same crew to go with him again, and the owner's back was scarcely turned before he commenced to drink and ill-use the poor half-witted Ralph who was in his watch. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

Let them really read the thing and really see whether the humour is the gross and half-witted jeering which they imagine it to be. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

It would seem as if Nature, when she made this block of stupidity in a world of wits, provided for him tenderly, as she would for a half-witted or idiot child. Wood Folk at School

A certain half-witted lad, who had followed Sir Hugh back to Dangerfield on that fearful night, might have elucidated the mystery; but he had been kidnapped, and sent to the plantations. Kate Coventry An Autobiography

Indeed, she perceived, to her horror, that he was half-witted, and could articulate with difficulty. The Hot Swamp

I have not, indeed, got the length thou hast—of wandering about like a poor ghost or a half-witted fellow, but I have seen enough of such matters to know what common sense says.” Erling the Bold

Poking it with his cane, he caused it to uncoil and display the vacant, features of a half-witted negro boy. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale

I remember the man perfectly, and a queer fellow he was, half-witted, I thought, and at the time of the trial within an ace of dying of consumption. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

Believing that the hut must be on fire, she hurried up towards it, though she feared that she should be too late to render any effectual assistance to its half-witted inmate. Mountain Moggy The Stoning of the Witch

Meanwhile, the innocent cause of all the disturbance had been as much scared by the team as had the half-witted boy by him, and was making for the deep woods at his best pace. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear

They met a peasant, a half-witted fellow; he had seen such a party—a carriage with ladies, a waggon and some horsemen—pass an hour before. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War

The room was empty, dark, deserted save for an old woman, half-witted, who was crouching on the floor before the sacred Icon, rocking herself and mumbling. The Black Cross

Others utterly failed to comprehend the question; and a few pityingly tapped their own foreheads, and shook their heads at the two half-witted English holiday-makers. Roger Ingleton, Minor

He is a half-witted spark, a fugitive from justice, and, to boot, an impudent coxcomb whom I have had ten minds already to pitch over the ship’s side. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess

They looked upon him as a benevolent individual, bent on getting the half-witted vagabond out of trouble, and, as such, they knew quite enough of fishing to see that he was in their net. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton

"All right," said Fuller, still mystified, "when you half-witted physicists recover, please let me in on the joke!" Islands of Space

Stop stuttering and come to life, you half-witted bag! The Galaxy Primes

He is a silly, half-witted virtuoso, positive and surly; fond of everything antique and foreign; and wears clothes of the last century. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

In sooth, this maiden needed a friend and comforter sorely; and how was she to fare on that long troublesome journey with no comrade but a rough man, and perchance a half-witted poet? Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess

It might be a half-witted person, and I’m sure I don’t know which I’d rather meet after dark—a ghost or a crazy man.” Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation

Then from the brush which grew among the rocks emerged the form of the half-witted boy. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma

Only just now a fellow came along in a canoe—a half-witted kind of Canadian. Fort Amity

The dispute at length grew so hot that a half-witted servant seized a dung-fork and rushed at the ambassador, who took to his heels, fearing to have his fine clothes soiled. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian.

Instantly she dismissed the suggestion, condemning herself for paying any attention to the empty vaporings of the half-witted, childish, old woman. The Secret of the Storm Country

So unresponsive and dumb was he that they called him half-witted. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories

"Not for a million dollars—not for a million million!" cried the half-witted boy. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma

His violent fall injured him seriously, and they say that the fright made him half-witted for the rest of his life. Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway

The eyes which he saw were, in truth, only the two buttons at the back of a frock-coat: perhaps some traditional memory of their meaningless character gave this half-witted prominence to their gaze. The Napoleon of Notting Hill

The same insatiable craving is shown in poor Isaac K——, the half-witted boy, whose droll sayings of a half-century ago are still remembered about Boston. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Plenty of half-witted men whom one meets in the every-day walks of life have destroyed the better half of their understanding by this wretched practice. Plain Facts for Old and Young

It took a good deal of talking to get a straight story from the half-witted youth, but at last Pawnee Brown was in full possession of the facts. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma

Mercier rose from the chaise longue, still thinking deeply, still stirred by the vague emotion that had called forth an answer from the immature, half-witted child. Civilization Tales of the Orient

His frequent revelations for three years, and the commencement of his public preaching to the Koraish, who would not listen, but regarded him as a half-witted poet. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature

We were once asking some questions about him of an old, half-witted woman, a former slave of his. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864

Silent and morose, he lived apart from all his fellows, who regarded him as a half-witted miser. Cobwebs and Cables

It's a poor half-witted lad, my Lady, and they thought he had stolen some clothes. The Drummer's Coat

She was fourteen years old, you see, and fully developed, partly because she was half-witted, and partly because of these hot temperatures under the Equator. Civilization Tales of the Orient

The cows and a pair of draught oxen were under his charge, and he lived there with his wife and a half-witted herdsman. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag

The representation of the half-witted Job--a character upon which the author clearly labored hard--neither arouses interest nor touches the heart. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters

Not far in front of me in the line of march there was a poor, old, half-witted woman, who became the target of gibes and jeers; I felt fierce protection of her. The Fifth Wheel A Novel

I believe you've got hold of the wrong man; for this is only a poor half-witted lad, not the man that you want. The Drummer's Coat

And every morning, almost by accident, he met the half-witted child with her faithful Kling attendant. Civilization Tales of the Orient

"If you were to put an old parchment covered with manuscript before him, he would give you any mortgage you liked for it; he is half-witted." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag

Tom knew the half-witted fellow, and quickly whispered an appeal to him. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South

With the addled craftiness of a half-witted creature he set about escaping from the imprisoning walls of the gully-dungeon. The Lost Valley

"Why, it was easy to see that he was but a poor half-witted creature," said Lady Eleanor, "as harmless as a child; his mother told me that she hardly let him out of her sight." The Drummer's Coat

He had heard that idiots or half-witted people were like that. Civilization Tales of the Orient

The whole business of Prussian militarism, with the half-witted philosophy by which it is justified, has to be imposed upon him from without by his masters. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers

"We had better walk the rest of the way," said the half-witted lad. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South

I relinquish the steel helmet and holy grail adjuncts, and exploit myself to your ribald gaze and half-witted laughter just as I is. At Home with the Jardines

Hysterical women and half-witted men, without possessing her abilities and understanding her objects, beheld unmeaning visions, and dreamed childish dreams. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series

Just then Wilbur, glancing over the circle of men, saw standing among them Ben, the half-witted boy who lived in the old hunter's cabin. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

A half-breed cooked for him; a half-witted French-Canadian girl did unimportant tasks about the bedchambers, but the host himself took his patrons into his own safekeeping and their secrets along with them. The Place Beyond the Winds

Poor half-witted Charlie was kept steadily at work,—although he was not able to do much, for his body was about as feeble as his mind. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Others seemed half-witted and dazed as a result of the brutal treatment which they had received. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben

Perhaps, half-witted as she had been, this was in reality her life, not the other that for sixty years she had been visibly living. A Dozen Ways Of Love

The Ranger had a 'phone put in for Ben, who had learned how to use it, and by good fortune the half-witted lad knew where to find Rifle-Eye. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

I praise you greatly for it, but that child is half-witted. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish

“Well, I should think you were half-witted to go out in this soak if you could keep a roof over your head,” cried Cheeseman, but Jerome was gone. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel

The old half-witted jester of Luxor has found me out—he has wandered down here to see his eldest son who is serving in the army. Letters from Egypt

The term at once calls up images of stunted figures with ill-developed brains, half-witted creatures, hardly distinguishable from the admittedly insane. Illusions A Psychological Study

Ben had struggled up to a sitting posture, and Merritt repeated his question as to the whereabouts of the logs, the answering of which had brought the big millman's anger upon the half-witted lad. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

The half-witted creature responded to the caress, and allowed herself to be led to the boat. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life

Our friends have been occupied with the case of a half-witted boy who consumed Penny Dreadfuls and afterwards went and killed his mother. Adventures in Criticism

Diogenes reproached a half-witted, cracked-brained unfortunate with this remark, "Surely, young man, thy father begat thee when he was drunk." Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada

"His sole object, then, was to free that half-witted poet?" asked Asru, incredulously. The Days of Mohammed

But Wilbur was by no means satisfied and he plied the half-witted lad with questions until he had secured all the details of the story. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

A half-witted old Tartar; you will get nothing out of him, sir. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood

Her fate was similar to that of the average woman of pleasure—forgotten, half-witted, stooping to any act of indecency to gain a few sous. Women of Modern France

To suppose that the Fool is, like many a domestic fool at that time, a perfectly sane man pretending to be half-witted, is surely a most prosaic blunder. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

The audience was usually strengthened by some half-witted girls that the Convent educated, and two angelic nuns. Adventures of a Despatch Rider

The half-witted lad passed his hand across his eyes. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

The tragic irony of the whole is skilfully heightened by the fact that it is half-witted "Clutie," with his penny whistle and his random words, who goads young Andrew to his vengeance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920

The language too is easy, such as fell Unstudied from his pen; not like a spell Big with mysterious words, such as inchant The half-witted, and confound the ignorant. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II

It is not that I am mortified to all ambition, but I scorn as much to take it from half-witted judges, as I should to raise an estate by cheating of bubbles. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06

Having delivered himself of this choice morsel of song, the half-witted fellow conceitedly challenged the attention of the group whom he had not hitherto been disposed to see. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

The half-witted lad nodded his head vigorously several times. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

Outside the walls of the castle she meets with an old half-witted harper, Lothario, who soothes the passion of her grief. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.

As we sat at our doorway, we saw a half-witted child at play before the next house. In Indian Mexico (1908)

At length he hit upon a poor half-witted lad, who was also hard of hearing into the bargain. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel

In another moment, and he was lost to sight in the gloomy shadow of the entrance-passage pointed out to him by the half-witted, but not altogether ignorant dwarf. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

"Boy fool," said the half-witted lad, pointing at him. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

To her horror, the half-witted dwarf was ready to act on her suggestion. Jerusalem

The feeble-minded and half-witted are nowadays caught up into asylums, for better care, and to ensure that their trouble dies with them. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London

A simple-minded—half-witted—young woman was taken advantage of by a young man resident in the neighbourhood, to the public scandal of the village. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century

The Turk he shyly bit his thumb, And coyly blushed like one half-witted, "The pain is in my little tum," He, whispering, at length admitted. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

Neither McGinnis nor the half-witted lad were in any mood for speaking, Ben nursing a badly swollen jaw, and McGinnis weak from the body blows and the lame shoulder he had received in the fight. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

She arrives at Evian penniless and half-witted with the terror of her sorrow. Out To Win The Story of America in France

None better offered than a half-witted sheepherder commonly known as Willie, who chanced to be in town by buckboard from the lower country. Heart's Desire

Why, he was a half-witted, impertinent, overbearing booby, and his author longed to get him across his knee, and correct him in the good old way. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal

He resolved to use all he knew of the cunning of the law to save this half-witted savage. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains

As soon as they reached the clearing they were met by a big, shambling youth, whose general appearance and hesitating air proclaimed him to be the half-witted lad of whom Wilbur had heard. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

Men, women and children—they all had the appearance of being half-witted. Out To Win The Story of America in France

What I said was idle, half-witted, gossiping nonsense. The Younger Set

There was no more touching of hats to upstart lieutenants and half-witted captains or colonels. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862

Fate acted rapidly through the agency of a half-witted mind. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains

But Wilbur's wish met its fulfillment, for just for the space that one could count ten the wind slackened, and every second meant a few yards of safety to the half-witted lad. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

And you come here and ask us to give countenance for a moment to a half-witted girl that says she belongs here in Ida May's place, and claiming Ida May's name. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod

I guess that was this girl's particular genius—not giving up when everyone else could see that she was talking half-witted. Ma Pettengill

Johnny might be half-witted, but his remarks were curiously penetrating sometimes. Judith of the Godless Valley

It was no longer human beings who contended over this poor, half-witted being, but brutes, less reasonable than he. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains

Otherwise their irrelevant answers would make them appear half-witted. Etiquette

"The poor thing must be half-witted, of course," Mrs. Ball said ruminatively. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod

I simply remarked that I disliked the touch of half-witted persons, whereupon he declared that he had wit enough to be offended. The Touchstone of Fortune

So there he is, left with the feeble old wife, and the half-witted son, who grows queerer and madder than ever. The Mating of Lydia

This Arrhidæus was the son of Philip by a low and disreputable woman named Philinna, and was half-witted in consequence of some bodily disorder with which he was afflicted. Plutarch's Lives Volume III.

They were inclined to believe that some half-witted person was concerned, drawn, perhaps, from the alien population which had been floating through the district, and bent on mischief or robbery—or a mixture of both. Harvest

I bring you here to resolve me, if you can, a curious puzzle in archaeology, and you fall to playing devil's pranks upon a half-witted child. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

He was a wild, unkempt figure, with a long black beard—a dervish by profession, and certainly gave no one any reason to believe that he was more than half-witted. War in the Garden of Eden

But old Brand was gone to his rest, the elder son had sailed for Canada, and the younger seemed to be a harmless, half-witted chap, of no account. The Mating of Lydia

It looks indeed rather like something done by an earthquake; an earthquake with a half-witted sense of humour. The New Jerusalem

So he took pipe and dried leaf tobacco from this half-witted skunk, who, having wiped the stem in his eight-inch-long pants, handed it over in a manner befitting a monarch. Across China on Foot

An old half-witted man and his goitred wife kept the place, and provided rough food and bedding for travellers, though interesting themselves in no wise with their concerns. Tom Tufton's Travels

When the author of the Book of Job insists upon the huge, half-witted, apparently unmeaning magnificence and might of Behemoth, the hippopotamus, he is appealing precisely to this sense of wonder provoked by the grotesque. Robert Browning

You know well enough I'm not one of those tail-wagging imbeciles who wakes up in the morning singing like a half-witted lark. The Tracer of Lost Persons

They knew how to keep snug and warm even if half-witted "sourdoughs" didn't. Pardners

"Why, she don't look to be half-witted," said the other. Hillsboro People

I am speaking of reasonably fertile land, and hardly need to point out that in offering any such price for mere barren foreshore I invite you to believe me half-witted. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales

Even in 1820 there were such things as hired men and tradition declares that the one in my grandparents' employ was known as Jonas, had but one good eye and was half-witted. The "Goldfish"

There is not one instance of a cure, and truly the treatment to which they are subjected is calculated to drive a half-witted person quite mad. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

Not the men who lead labor--that's only what they call themselves; but the men who betray labor for their own pockets, the men who find dynamite for half-witted fanatics to set off. The Penalty

There is a story of one of those half-witted creatures of a different character from the humorous ones already recorded; I think it is exceedingly affecting. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

I don't count old Duncan, her husband; for he's half-witted, and only serves to break the plates. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales

She was quite hopeless, they said—and half-witted, some added! The Reason Why

Therefore, never is their strife After those true joys to spur; In this lean and little life They, half-witted, deeply err Seeking here their bliss to gain, That is God Himself in vain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1

Finally, after abandoning the idea that mechanical means can possibly have produced the effect, Mr. Podmore falls back on the cunning of a half-witted girl whom nothing shows to have been half-witted. The Making of Religion

I have two anecdotes of two peers, who might be said to come under the description of half-witted. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

Am I hideous, or doting, or half-witted, as old men are? A Roman Singer

The ordinary farce seems a world of almost piteous vulgarity, where a half-witted and stunted creature is afraid when his wife comes home, and amused when she sits down on the doorstep. The Defendant

Is it because we give him our daughter to be the wife of his bandy-shanked, half-witted son? Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy

In any case a half-witted girl, in Mr. Podmore's theory, can do what 'is quite inexplicable by ordinary mechanical means.' The Making of Religion

But he had a half-witted friend, a ward-mate, who could coax him into his clothes when his oppressors found him most intractable. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography

When addressing me, he related an anecdote of Rowland Hill, who, going to preach at a village, was requested to visit a good, but poor half-witted man. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York

And Mart was always enraged at the sight of his half-witted son. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

And you can't ask her, you can't have the face to ask her, as long as you keep that half-witted creature dangling after you. The Obstacle Race

There is not the shadow of evidence that the girl Rose had the inestimable advantage of being 'half-witted;' she is described by Mr. Podmore as 'the child of an imbecile mother.' The Making of Religion

There have been many instances of this half-witted compromise. All Things Considered

Most previous schemes for employing the unemployed upon colonies and waste land had failed because of the men put upon them, who were drunken, lazy, and half-witted. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"

A half-witted cobbler who, learning that a tailor had advertised for "frogs," catches a bagful and carries them to him, demanding one dollar a hundred. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

You're always ready with some plausible excuse for that half-witted young scoundrel. The Obstacle Race

There she was defeated, her son brutally murdered and all hope lost for the cause of her imprisoned husband, the feeble and half-witted Henry VI. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

The driver of the vehicle, in which, under ordinary circumstances, Madam Conway would have scorned to ride, was a long, lean, half-witted fellow, utterly unfitted for his business. Maggie Miller

It was just as though the other half of the wits of the half-witted boy who looked after them had distributed itself among the whole herd. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919

Unnoticed and lonely in the crowd, Alfred was almost sorry he was not half-witted too. Essays in Rebellion

That rather reminds one of the story of a half-witted fellow who used to go about the country doing odd jobs, and asking in return a meal and a shake-down of straw or hay. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century.

It was that half-witted lad then who had perished in the park. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale

Laugh; but I will be known as I know myself, and as Flintwinch knows me, though it is only to you and this half-witted woman.' Little Dorrit

The Turk he shyly bit his thumb,And coyly blushed like one half-witted,“The pain is in my little tum,”He, whispering, at length admitted. The Bab Ballads

She was twenty-one years and twenty-one days old, when he brought her home to the gloomy house, his half-witted, frightened, and submissive Bride of three weeks. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Do you think we are going to hang for you, you black-faced, half-witted, drunken brute and butcher? Master of Ballantrae

Poor creature; Amory supposed she had never before been noticed in her life—possibly she was half-witted. This Side of Paradise

He hired a poor half-witted fanatic to go and murder William of Orange. The Story of Mankind

Her half-witted old mother caught at the idea of a few weeks' longer life, and asserted that she was pregnant. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2

He must have thought me half-witted, and indeed before long I began to be of the same opinion myself. Prester John

When she HAD got a notion once fixed in her mind she was, like other half-witted people, as obstinate as a mule in keeping it. The Woman in White

The matron had handed him over to a sort of half-witted inmate of the house, whose wits, however, were strangely about him at the wrong time, to nurse and amuse him. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire

As long as Russia was ruled by Paul I, the half-witted son of Catherine the Great, Napoleon had known how to deal with the situation. The Story of Mankind

VI.—It is objected that we should be left with a considerable residuum of half-witted, helpless people. In Darkest England and the Way Out

No shiftless poor white, no half-witted or hungry negro, had ever gone unfed from Mis' Molly's kitchen door if Rena were there to hear his plaint. The House Behind the Cedars

A half-witted boy of the school became enamored of the young master. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence? Merry Men

Soon afterward, his father-in-law, Philip IV, one of the half-witted Spanish Habsburgs, died. The Story of Mankind

There are babies a plenty, and one half-witted girl. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Walden

In the heavy shadows of a big tree before Doctor Welling's house, he stopped and stood watching half-witted Turk Smollet, who was pushing a wheelbarrow in the road. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

For a long time the cries of that nameless female thing, as she struggled with her half-witted whelp, resounded through the house, and pierced me with despairing sorrow and disgust. Merry Men

He was so deaf that the more business-like assumed him to be dumb; while the more penetrating declared him to be half-witted. The Innocence of Father Brown

This pressure it was which caused the fits of somnolency so frequently to come upon her, and which gave her the appearance of being stupid and half-witted in those early years. Harriet, the Moses of Her People

Orrick, the girl's father, a half-witted old dotard, was heard to say that he would shoot on sight. Captivating Mary Carstairs

The man on the farm was a half-witted old fellow named Mook. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

I don't think the governor minds anything else; but he cannot stand our making fun of that poor, old, half-witted chap. Wild Kitty

He was maddened by one of those half-memories that make a man feel half-witted. The Innocence of Father Brown

This half-witted mammoth—don't ask me how he came to be here—thought he recognised in me some one he had known in India. The Bronze Bell

Indeed, it turned out that an under-gardener employed by Mrs. Kirkbride, our neighbor, about this time, a shambling, peaceful, half-witted goat of a man, was one such; and a perfect red-Indian upon a trail. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories

When the half-witted old man left his husking of corn and came into the wood to meet Elmer Cowley, he was neither surprised nor especially interested in the sudden appearance of the young man. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

Full as her mind was of Gilbert Crosby, the failure of this half-witted companion depressed her as, perhaps, nothing else could have done. The Brown Mask

Mr. Bundercombe was partly convinced, but more than ever sure that he had found his way into a country of half-witted people. An Amiable Charlatan

Now, it is entirely weak and half-witted to appeal to the future. Alarms and Discursions

There was a half-witted girl in the village, ill-treated and enslaved by a miserly old aunt. The Coryston Family A Novel

The conspirators met at Bayeux, the day before their intended treachery, and, whilst dining there, called in to amuse them a half-witted man named Gillos, and the plot was, inadvertently, mentioned in his presence. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II

Whilst I was in this state of reverie, one of my servants—an odd Irish fellow, who, under pretence of being half-witted, took more liberties than his companions—bolted into my presence. Tales and Novels — Volume 04

"Richards said it was a poor, half-witted creature," he murmured, as though thinking aloud. Gloria and Treeless Street

If love is blind, self-love is surely half-witted as well, for it never sees nor understands that the world is fooling it. Roden's Corner

Among these were some half-witted persons, who, although not to be relied upon, were seldom to any extent mischievous. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

His fellow-criminals, for the most part, are obtuse, uncultivated creatures, some of them scarcely half-witted by nature, and others greatly decayed in their intellects through age. Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")

More than any one whom I had ever seen, he had the knack of seeming half-witted—too simple to overreach, and yet sufficiently acute and droll to divert his master. Tales and Novels — Volume 04

"But, dear," interposed his wife, "half-witted creatures can be killed!" Gloria and Treeless Street

To be a sincere member of it, a man must be a half-witted fool, a religious fanatic, or a rogue for whom no duplicity is too scurrilous, even though it amount to blasphemy. The Slave of the Lamp

I got on the horse which the guide, a half-witted fellow from the next valley, was holding for me, and we set out. Wilfrid Cumbermede

But sickly, slight, half-witted and a child, Will England have him king? Queen Mary and Harold

Who but a half-witted dunce would ask how those that are unfeeling can have sufferings? Tales and Novels — Volume 04

For a moment his blood seemed to stand still; then all the divine senses of the half-witted returned to him. Heather and Snow

These threats had frightened the poor half-witted fellow, who thought he was going to be beheaded, having no idea of what his punishment might be. Rico and Wiseli

A species of half-witted serving-lad, whom charity had induced the old man to harbor among his dependants was seen issuing from the woods, nearly in a line with the neglected clearing on the mountain-side. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

From his gentleness and lovingkindness to live things, there were who said he was half-witted; others said he saw ghosts. A Rough Shaking

"They have only left me the decrepit and the half-witted," she said, "but I am not beaten yet." The Isle of Unrest

But only Kirsty knew that the half-witted had sought and found audience with the Eternal, and was now in his presence. Heather and Snow

She thought of him at that moment as half-witted. The Woman with the Fan

It is plain that the poor fellow was mad or half-witted or both. Among My Books First Series

His eyes were so blank and vacant that I imagined he had become half-witted, and remarked it to Mr. Wilde who replied that it was of no consequence anyway. The King in Yellow

"Yes, a poor half-witted soul apparently—must have been, to imagine that a subterfuge like that would succeed in London." The Christian A Story

It describes two innocent children gradually growing at once omniscient and half-witted under the influence of the foul ghosts of a groom and a governess. Tremendous Trifles

Of all the half-witted dumbbells I ever saw in my life," they will say, "he wins the cement earmuffs. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

What sane-minded person can possibly take an interest in a succession of childish tricks played by two lovesick boobies upon a half-witted old man? Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama

To the front shuffled an old, half-witted hag, with thin gray hair and pendulous lower lip. The Call of the Cumberlands

He was a half-witted Irish lad, named Arthur O'Connor, about seventeen years of age, who had been a clerk to an oil and colour merchant. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2

Dyckman pleaded, like a half-witted booby, "Let's take a little longer ride." We Can't Have Everything

He spoke in a wild, incoherent way, and seemed to be half-witted. At Agincourt

But tomorrow some miserable, chinless, half-witted reptile of a caddie with pop eyes and eight hundred and thirty-seven pimples will find it, and will sell it to someone for sixpence! The Clicking of Cuthbert

Drink and debauch having already rendered his younger brother half-witted, the task should not be a difficult one, especially as half the people and the whole army side with the illegitimate, though more popular, prince. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán

Because a half-witted Negro attempted to murder a white man, a large mob stirred up the city again. A Century of Negro Migration

He wandered about the isthmus, half-witted, forgetting his name, nursing one idea. The Abandoned Room

This threat was much more efficacious than those of the half-witted man had been, and the boys at once took to their heels. At Agincourt

It was impossible to see the face of the half-witted guide to gain any information from his gestures. The White Waterfall

The half-witted incompetent will, as we know well enough, speedily disappear under the stress of competition, and his place will be taken by more efficient men. Supply and Demand

"Poor, half-witted old woman! she might a great deal better be in the poor-house." Mercy Philbrick's Choice

Meantime, through a sister, the only remaining child, except a half-witted brother, he heard at long intervals from home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858

He is but an idle, boasting, half-witted fellow, as harmless as he is silly. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story

It was plain that the big man was half-witted—or nearly so. Bull Hunter

Quite a change from the vaudeville show of the restless personal ambitions of vindictive fools and greedy scoundrels, the mischief and adventures of half-witted geniuses and licensed rogues that have been figures of the prologue. The Glands Regulating Personality

They have divorced themselves from their own great poets, to follow vulgar half-witted political prophets. England and the War

"A poor half-witted, thing," they said, "who could not say bo! to a goose." Boys and girls from Thackeray

They reported him just a shade better than half-witted. Average Jones

Stupid, ignorant, half-witted slave that you are sometimes, I can only marvel at how fittingly you were born to such low estate, for your thick-headedness. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs

A half-witted tory boy who had been taken prisoner, was promised his freedom, if he would spread the report among St. Leger's troops that a large body of Americans was close at hand. A Brief History of the United States

Now by a subsequent marriage Philip IV had had a son, a weak-bodied, half-witted prince, who came to the throne in 1665 as Charles II. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

Nay," said Catherine, resuming the full career of her careless good-humour, "he must be half-witted beforehand, that gives me such an opportunity. The Abbot

Well, if I needed an accomplice," said Average Jones thoughtfully, "I wouldn't want any better one than a half-witted man. Average Jones

Ah, and our old parson had a good bit more than any one of these half-witted curates such as you see here in Brighton playing their popish antics in coloured clothes.’ More Pages from a Journal

How did a half-witted boy once save a fort from capture? A Brief History of the United States

Several prisoners were taken by him, and one of them, a poor half-witted youth named James Few, was, by Tryon's order, hung on the spot without trial. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time

Professor Henderson caught her eye and significantly touched his forehead, giving her to understand that Harry was only "half-witted." Bound to Rise

There was a cruel saying about Freddie Vandam—that if only he had had a little more brains, he would have been half-witted. The Metropolis

The notion of the doorless room chilled him with that sense of half-witted curiosity which one has when something horrible is half understood. The Ball and the Cross

Here," said I to myself, "here is Common-sense in the shape of a half-witted peddling fellow, blundering into Arcadia, in the shape of a haunted cottage, a woman, and a man. The Broad Highway

But as, in course of time, several of his own friends joined us, I could not help noticing that the worthy Flachs was regarded by them all as a half-witted fool. My Life — Volume 1

The man looked up and grinned vacantly, for he was not even half-witted. Aladdin O'Brien

Contrary to everything that I would have expected, you are really trying to save that poor half-witted girl whom you love from the terrible habit that has gripped you. The War Terror

I had begun to wonder whether she were not merely half-witted. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

The half-witted boy had destroyed the aim, and the alarm given by the report of his carbine enabled the boatman, whoever he was, to make good his escape at once. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus

Jones, who bases his prophecy on the Bible, had hitherto been thought to be half-witted. The Hohenzollerns in America

I saw that half-witted fellow, Billy Blake about. Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative

Even a half-witted person, starting from home on a morning like that, and expecting to be absent all day, would have provided herself with dry stockings and slippers for a change. All's for the Best

If I had made the same remark to an Englishwoman, she would have pitied me for a poor, half-witted gentleman. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

Nor was the poor half-witted boy forgotten, but he received a share of the kindly welcome, and seemed in his peculiar way to understand and appreciate it, keeping continually by Komel's side. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus

The only other boy near-by was Billy Butler, a poor, half-witted idiot, who lived with his family in a tiny cottage under the side of a hill. Master Sunshine

He then would have thought it an accident, but for Perrault's own needless wonder, whence the shot came, and that same remark, that Billy Blake, the half-witted son of a farmer, was about that night. Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative

In a way I was sorry for him; a poor half-witted wretch, whose life had been full of such gall and wormwood. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten

The cook, a half-witted fellow, was another man who seemed to have no fear. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales

But thanks to the bravery and skill of the poor half-witted boy, all had gone safely through, and now Komel found herself seated with the beautiful Zillah in Selim's cabin, safe from all harm. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus

He was just a bit afraid that his friend, the half-witted boy, was in trouble. Master Sunshine

In the evening, as I was strolling about the town, a poor, crippled, half-witted fellow came jerking himself across the street after me and offered himself as a guide. Winter Sunshine

On the low parapet of that bridge I found Timothy Cooper, the stupid, half-witted labourer, sitting, idly throwing bits of mortar into the brook below. Cousin Phillis

"It is all your fault, Monsieur," he shrieked, "for introducing into the club a half-witted creature like that." Simon the Jester

It is the half-witted creature, who had followed and loved Komel so well. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus

One would think you envied the end of that unfortunate, half-witted fellow! Thelma

The poor half-witted rascal, who had not sense enough to serve the king, might still serve the abbot. Roman and the Teuton

What matter if he be but a half-witted puppet? The Witch of Prague

You may think he's half-witted; but he isn't. Simon the Jester

So she went, and there presently was met by the Flounder, who was supposed to be asleep, but had followed her, a person of whom the half-witted Bridget was much afraid. The Lady of Blossholme

But even in his fright he realized that Loudon could not have told Dobson the tale of the half-witted lady. Huntingtower

He was an almost half-witted creature, with queer cunning ways, and the Indians looked upon him as a sort of Medicine Man, and feared him accordingly. This Country of Ours

Ever since leaving Bear Island he had been keeping a carnival of grief in the pantry, until the cook became almost half-witted by reason of his Jeremiads. Letters from High Latitudes

The man was a poor half-witted friendless creature, whom I had employed out of pure pity to keep my laboratory clean, and to wash and dry my bottles. Jezebel's Daughter

Lastly, placed already in the roped space and guarded by a soldier, poor old Bridget, the half-witted, who was gabbling words to which no one paid any heed. The Lady of Blossholme

Loudon must have told this man the story with which he had been fobbed off about the half-witted Kennedy relative. Huntingtower

Englishmen think him half-witted, which is exactly what he intends them to think. John Bull's Other Island

Well, Judith, you know best, for you are cleverer than common, mother always said, and I am only half-witted. The Deerslayer

Don't you listen to him, Mistress; he's a poor half-witted creature. Jezebel's Daughter

Here the third victim was waiting to join them, poor, old, half-witted Bridget, clad in a kind of sheet, for her habit had been stripped off. The Lady of Blossholme

Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)

Six months afterwards she came forth with him to marry him, half-witted as he was. Beatrice

Neither will harm a poor half-witted girl, Judith. The Deerslayer

She had only stopped at our house on her way to the hotel; being unwilling to trespass on the hospitality of her partners, while she was accompanied by such a half-witted fellow as Jack. Jezebel's Daughter

The people there hate the upstart race that rules them, and the king, who alone is left now that Amathel is dead, is old and half-witted, for all that family drink too much. Morning Star

He was, indeed, half-witted, as he now proved. The Lion's Skin

Jack hitherto had passed in the world for a poor, simple, well-meaning, half-witted, crack-brained fellow. History of John Bull

However, she recollected that it would have seemed as impossible that the half-witted youth should marry as that he should be on the Continent. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

From all I can learn, he was only what is called "half-witted," when they received him at the asylum in London. Jezebel's Daughter

This comforting dream and hope were given her by God's folk—the half-witted and other pilgrims who visited her without the prince's knowledge. War and Peace

Of the history of his acquaintance with him Palford knew nothing, and that he should choose to burden himself with a half-witted invalid —in these terms the solicitor described him— was simply in-explainable. T. Tembarom

Mahailey was one of eighteen children; most of them grew up lawless or half-witted, and two of her brothers, like her husband, ended their lives in jail. One of Ours

Her husband was very feeble and infirm, and of a large family, the youngest, this half-witted son, was the only survivor. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

Probably you are thinking, 'The man with whom I have to deal is old and half-witted.' Through Russia

Sake, when heated, mounts readily to the head, and a single small cup excites the half-witted man-servant to some very foolish musical performances. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Lucy had seen to that, and, in fact, Slone was anxious to meet this half-witted fellow who had so grievously offended and threatened Lucy. Wildfire

Both were more American than the old, half-witted soldiers who denounced the wasting, on a mere grave, of money which should have been given for drink. The Education of Henry Adams

She calls her "poor Muchit," and considers her a half-witted creature. Men's Wives

That was the stuff of which the King's faction was made, half-witted rakes who were arrogant without pride and volcanic without courage.... The Path of the King

"Some people thought young Stanley little more than half-witted; but I have always maintained that he was not wanting in sense." Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2

No one I know, except a half-witted boy, ever rode down among these monuments. Wildfire

The President of the Court played this pleader a trick by appointing him to defend at the Assizes a half-witted peasant accused of forgery. Albert Savarus

He is half-witted and has lost his memory. A Millionaire of Yesterday

One of them says it was mounted by a half-witted man, seated with his face towards the tail of the beast, and having several hats piled on his head. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

Then the world itself went half-witted and she screamed. The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Northmen came about our land A Christless chivalry: Who knew not of the arch or pen, Great, beautiful half-witted men From the sunrise and the sea. The Ballad of the White Horse

He made no resistance, but was still laughing in a groggy and half-witted style. Manalive

Before we left that house, ten minutes afterwards, one half-witted touch was added which rolled all our minds in cloud. The Club of Queer Trades

Are you a half-witted man playing the conspirator, or are you a clever man playing the fool? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare

Small as the percentage of the imbecile and half-witted may seem in comparison with the normal members of the community, it should always be remembered that feeble-mindedness is not an unrelated expression of modern civilization. The Pivot of Civilization

But Mr. Jansenius soon made them understand that the position of a lady in the hands of a half-witted laborer was one of danger. An Unsocial Socialist

You have suspected your father of some infamy that you dare not openly charge him with, on no other testimony than the rambling nonsense of a half-witted, dying old man. After Dark

And now I began to perceive something else, which added the last half-witted touch to my mystification. The Club of Queer Trades

No one liveth there," said Gascoyne, "saving only some of the stable villains, and that half-witted goose-herd who flung stones at us yesterday when we mocked him down in the paddock. Men of Iron

Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to imbrangle. Tom Brown's School Days

"I'm forgetting my ready-made relations—my half-witted aunt, and my uncle the rogue." No Name

The deformed, the crippled and the half-witted abound. London's Underworld

The poor half-witted fellow was so badly frightened that he could only groan. The Spirit of the Border

The ghastly, callous fiendishness that lured an old, half-witted man to his death had Jimmie Dale in that grip of cold, merciless anger again, and there was a dull flush now upon his cheeks. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

And the crowds would go from tank to tank, looking in at us through the glass—with their mouths open, like half-witted flounders. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

This peon was a half-witted Indian who lived in a shack and did odd jobs for the Mexicans. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border

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例句	half-witted Her mind was so nimble and she was so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half-witted of parents. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Is it wise to build machines that might one day become smarter than us, and then decide to dispense with their half-witted creators? Opinion \| How an AI safeword can protect you and your money 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Back in the days when The Simpsons was worth watching, half-witted actor Troy McClure proudly told us he had starred in a self-help video called 'Get Confident, Stupid'. 'England's positivity put to the test' 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Out of what Infowars said were hundreds of submissions, my video — a half-witted, conspiratorial glance at the creation and function of the Federal Reserve — made it to the final round. I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z While a bit of a stretch, this was in keeping with the president’s long habit of half-witted ad hominems. Opinion \| Trump spurs a Wild West of continuously worsening political rhetoric 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z She is shrewd enough to wheel and deal with half-witted intelligence officers but otherwise seems unexceptional. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Even a half-witted political memoir would grapple with such a disconnect — perhaps by acknowledging some fault in the boss, or by comparing his low points with those of other presidents. Review \| Sean Spicer is still trying to gaslight America about President Trump 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Even a half-witted political memoir would grapple with such a disconnect — perhaps by acknowledging some fault in the boss, or perhaps by comparing his low points with those of other presidents. Sean Spicer's book is 'a bumbling effort at gaslighting Americans' 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z This half-witted hooligan, capering on the world stage with a box of Fun Snaps, creating mini-explosions in a spirit of devilment, is foreign secretary. The UK ignored the Irish abortion question for too long – it was a failure of solidarity 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The Trump era is a renaissance of half-witted intolerance. Opinion \| The Trump era is a renaissance of half-witted intolerance 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Referring to a "half-witted rabble", he offered opposition activists the services of a Chechen psychiatric hospital to treat their "mass psychosis". Putin loyalist Kadyrov unleashed on Russian 'traitors' - BBC News 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In “The Empire Strikes Back,” she directs the Rebel evacuation of Hoth and escapes with “stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder” Han Solo aboard the Millennium Falcon. Is it Wookie or Wookiee? The Times' definitive 'Star Wars' style guide 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Someone once called anti-Semitism the socialism of fools, meaning that imagining that Jewish financiers were responsible for inequality was a half-witted way of explaining it. When Gentrification Is Good 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z On the other hand, why are blonde and blue-eyed “Aryan” females so attractive to half-witted, half-Jews like me? Germany is the hypocritical worst: Arrogance, austerity — and zero sense of history 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He may be a smuggler, a scoundrel, and stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder, but Solo is also — according to issue six of Marvel's comic — a married man. Marvel's Star Wars comic makes a massive change to Han Solo 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I assume this was some sort of half-witted ploy to gain my trust, but there was no chance of that happening. Scamming Fake Microsoft Support Scammers 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z This is BS peddled to the half-witted and politicians by business volks trying to maximise their profits at the expense of tax-payers and society. Recovery on track, but not racing ahead 2013-04-25T13:44:21Z So is The Last of Us representative of this new wave of ultraviolence – and empty, half-witted celebration of super-detailed gore effects? Does The Last of Us fetishise violence? 2012-06-20T10:52:11Z Occasionally the nuns seem to have resented or resisted these attempts to foist the deformed and the half-witted upon them. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z His "predecessor" was a foolish dog, not more than "half-witted." A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z No more, for with a shrill laugh the man next me, a mere lad, half-witted, I think, and the same who had cursed them, sprang by me and rushed on the pike-points. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z These lived at home with her and her father, but were, unfortunately, half-witted. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z It was this terrible secret that had made her so silent and strange, this that had driven her neighbours to look upon her as half-witted. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Then, as afterward, the accusations fell chiefly upon women; the old, friendless, or half-witted bearing the burden of every accident in their neighborhood. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z That Monthly Magazine is read by all the Dissenters—I call it the Dissenters’ Obituary—and here are you eternally mining, mining, under the shallow faith of their half-learned, half-witted, half-paid, half-starved pastors. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Then their driver, a half-witted fellow, who said that they had engaged him at Rodez, though he denied stoutly that he had seen the Capuchin, told two or three tales. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z The only inhabitant remaining in the town was a poor half-witted Spaniard, who had not clearly ascertained what he ought to67 do. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z Plowing along, his head down and his whip in hand came Terry, the half-witted boy who, Winter and Summer, drove the cows from their field or barn to the slaughter house. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z He is a half-witted lad, or rather quite mad. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z But I am left to the tender mercies of half-witted domestics, in order that my daughter may go out to tea—may trapese from one scandal-exchange to another! A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z How can I tell what a half-witted man knows of me, or thinks he knows? A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Folks about here make no bones of telling me that they were both half-witted, only as she's my sister, they try to give me to understand as she caught it from him. Sunshine Jane 2011-11-12T03:00:30.717Z But the doctor put the half-witted lad aside and examined the child. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z There was a poor half-witted Brahman who had a wife but no children. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z To the monasteries flocked all classes, from fashionable knights broken down or unsuccessful or weary of conflict, to the half-witted clowns sheltered and utilized as lay-brethren. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z But the shrewd, capable woman had schemed and plotted too, and had made use of her son, her poor half-witted Harry. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Like the half-witted boy who was questioned by the Tories, Monk exaggerated the situation, saying there were forty men in the fort then molding bullets in anticipation of an attack. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z Money passed from the girl’s hand to that of the half-witted youth. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z A harum-scarum sort of a young man was Andrew, and there were people in the parish who said he was only half-witted, but this was all nonsense. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z This so incensed the soldier, that he instantly pulled out his holster pistol, and shot the poor half-witted creature through the head. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z For now, at last, now that power had been wrested out of her own safe hands into the clutch of this designing woman, Lady Louisa owned to herself that Harry was half-witted. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z “We’ll have to get that half-witted chap out of the way,” declared Duval, in a low tone, “or he may make an outcry and arouse the whole place.” The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Little Dorrit did not say who had taken pains to teach and encourage the poor half-witted creature, but Mr. Clennem guessed from the name Little Mother, and the fondness of the poor creature for Amy. Charles Dickens' Children Stories 2011-08-20T02:00:15.847Z Then I called myself a fool for not taking a necessary step, and one which would have occurred immediately to any one that was not half-witted. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z He seemed to be a simple, half-witted, harmless fellow, and assisted Lightfoot in doing the drudgery about the place. Fire Cloud The Mysterious Cave. A Story of Indians and Pirates. 2011-08-09T02:00:29.010Z Then they talked of the political bearings, of the consequences, which the crime of the 18th February, the act of a half-witted creature, might have on the freedom of Austria. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z I am 95 percent sure that half-witted followers of Breivik will soon appear in Russia, and not only in Russia. Norwegian killer causes Putin potential embarrassment 2011-07-26T13:44:38Z They thought him a fool, and that he had the inquisitiveness of the half-witted to peer in at windows and see the pretty sights within. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The fellow perhaps was neither deaf nor half-witted," answered Aag�; "to you he naturally said fair words, in order to escape. 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 Think of me as half-witted,—idiotic,—but not that. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z “He is some half-witted native,” said Hume, after a long pause. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z They're just great big baby men, and as irresponsible as half-witted schoolboys. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z My opponents would directly have found ways and means to represent me as a half-witted, tiresome visionary. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z "Poor, fond creature, half-witted or half-crazed they call me; but He would have welcomed me." Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z And, as he called, a raw-boned, half-witted boy shuffled forward, and squatted, with a horrible grin, in front of the terrified girl prisoners. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z So when he saw that she was the first to meet him, he was so cut to the heart he fell to the ground on the spot, and since that time had been almost half-witted. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Selden went to Boston where a half-witted group of parlour-socialists at Cambridge were talking too loudly and loosely to please even the most tolerant at Harvard. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z A half-witted lad named Cossey, aged 20, was apprehended on the charge of murdering the woman. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z The half-witted, crippled-up squaw-man with the two extremely desirable squaws came through, stopped for another bottle of hooch, and drove on and made camp just outside the settlement. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Cora and her friends, made prisoners in the cave by the old man and his horrible, grinning, half-witted helper, felt faint and sick as they realized what might be the outcome. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Not even an echo gave answer to the half-witted creature's query; so he drew out some of the under logs, thus making the whole pile fall noisily down. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z But, alas, it contained nothing but a half-witted old man’s keepsakes—scraps of his unutterable poetry, ribbon-tied parcels of yellowed love-letters, pressed flowers and a wisp of some woman’s hair. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z It is quite possible he is half-witted, or something of that sort. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z You see this baby and he sure is cute as a button—he's going to be a black buck when he grows up—but right now he hasn't the sense of a half-witted mud turtle. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z The half-witted creature bounded forward, and caught up a club. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z The other day I wrote about undersized, half-witted fellows who were caught by our men, and said the German man-power must be wearing thin if they sent recruits like this. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z He says Elfrida looks half-witted, and her sister looks like a full idiot. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z "And perhaps," added Ellinor, "even if he is half-witted, we might do something to comfort the poor man." Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z It seemed best to contrive to get a little note conveyed to the daughter's hands, and to invite her to a walk to the Fuchs-spitze; half-witted K�tchen might serve as an unsuspected messenger. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Then he saw the old man and the half-witted helper. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z The incendiary was discovered, it could be none other than half-witted K�tchen. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z He was at the time of my visit a half-witted mendicant, p. 109one of the many objects of the late Lady Hester Stanhope’s benevolence, and one who, like herself, was subject to many extravagant eccentricities. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z One evening while they sat there a half-witted contadino slouched out of the chapel and begged from them. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z But here no bells are ringing--here no Ave Maria is sounded--half-witted K�tchen rows them out to sea. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z A little later the two boys, with the old man and the half-witted helper, entered the main cave where they found Jack running about half wild with excitement. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z "To set fire to places," added Blanden by way of explanation, "is a mania of such half-witted beings." Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z But how can the story be told when a Lear comes on the stage, who at his first appearance is broken-down and half-witted? Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He's got a brother and a twin sister half-witted. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z It was half-witted K�tchen--he had recognised her at once. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z To it they brought their machinery and began issuing tickets, Jason, aided by the half-witted Bombee, doing the printing, while the others distributed the product. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Outside, he enquired of the half-witted porteress, for the little black lady from Italy. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z To hell for all I care, you half-witted fool! The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z There's some half-witted Indians prowl about here and they must have run it off. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The former had never belonged to the pious community, but, as legal assistant, had often imparted advice to Frau von Salden, and had also conducted the case instituted against half-witted K�tchen. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Occasionally, when the bungalow was not occupied, the men used it, and it was in this way that the big, half-witted youth learned to find his way there. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z This is standard misdirection in stage magic: the lovely assistant or the seemingly half-witted helper, are really quite smart. Numberplay: The Playful Mr. Gardner 2010-06-07T19:45:00Z "Once a brilliant but eccentric scientist, he now comes over as a half-witted clown," said one viewer. LSD inspired Doctor regeneration 2010-04-12T23:39:00Z "Ay, ay, heart and body," says the younger, in a fit of laughter; "she has been seized by her husband, a half-witted idiot of a fellow, a native of the town of Selkirk." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Clearly she was insane, or at least half-witted, and was quite incapable of drawing reasonable conclusions. The Spy in Black To his surprise he saw that they were making sport of a strange-looking lad of about his own age, who seemed to be only half-witted. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia But actually she saw tears in the eyes of the half-witted giant now. The Broken Gate A Novel I am often asked by my friends, who think the child is little more than half-witted, why I do not 'send her back, and get a brighter one.' The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them If an Englishman had said the same thing, he would have been thought half-witted, but Orientals have a way of talking platitudes as if they were epigrams. The Unveiling of Lhasa What punishment can be too severe for a half-witted farm hand who burns his master's haystack? The Book of This and That Right ends, and means, make wisdom: worldly-wise Is but half-witted, at its highest praise. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes "Well, then, perhaps he's not half-witted, after all," said Burton. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance Fourthly, the number among the negroes of those whom we should call half-witted men is very large. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The half-witted creature emitted low, gurgling sounds of satisfaction. The Intriguers Her fate was similar to that of the average woman of pleasure--forgotten, half-witted, stooping to any act of indecency to gain a few sous. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) When we drew nearer, I saw that it was Crazy Helen, an old half-witted woman who went about among the farms begging. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself He sent a half-witted fellow into the Indian camp with the tale that a great American force was coming. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read "Poor fellow! he is but half-witted at best," said Herbert. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago “You can never trust these half-witted chaps,” he added. The Intriguers Luther and Pascal were grand, and are grand still; the Obi is simply a poor half-witted creature. Toilers of the Sea Amy did not say who had taken pains to teach and encourage the poor half-witted creature, but Mr. Clennam guessed from the name "little mother" and the fondness of the poor creature for Amy. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read So they got hold of the witch, a brutish, ignorant, half-witted woman living in the village of Calder, and put her in prison, waiting her confession. Witch Stories Eight or nine months ago I happened to be travelling in the diamond country, and it so happened that on this particular field there was a half-witted old lunatic who was everybody's butt. Long Live the King There was also a good-natured creature named Tobe, half-witted and harmless, attached to the family, who did odd jobs for his board and keep, and had constituted himself a fixture. Checkers A Hard-luck Story He had supposed until this moment that the six Brethren were following behind him; but he now discovered that, except for Silvia and the half-witted donkey-driver, he was quite alone. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children The half-witted creature could not recall the names on the repetition of her confessions, but this failing does not seem to have awakened any doubt of her guilt. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Later, when David the smith was going to America and wished to leave his forge with the half-witted Billy, he proposed the smith’s work as play. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency This was the place, then, of which the poor, old, half-witted diamond hunter had told Moreas. Long Live the King At last her desire is realized: a son is born to her; but the child, conceived in madness, is born half-witted. Contemporary Russian Novelists He was that half-witted, pumpkin-colored individual that you discharged last winter because he did not know enough to keep the horses' feet clean. The Daughter of a Republican The Devonshire women were half-witted creatures, of the type that had always been most voluble in confession; but such were now exceptions. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 "You don't mean the half-witted woman—the poor crazy creature!" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 There was nothing too mean, too repulsive, for the domestic brute—the cicisbeo, the priest, the half-witted page—to undergo, in the stupid belief that the power of a philtre increased with its nastiness. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He drew the poor half-witted thing close to him and asked: “Can Vögelein tell me something about mamma, and how she went to sleep?” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 They almost give one the feeling that they are half-witted, and yet they evidently are not. Four Ghost Stories This might lead one to suppose that her answers were the haphazard replies of a half-witted woman. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Do you think we are 47 going to hang for you, you black-faced, half-witted, drunken brute and butcher? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted. Legends & Romances of Brittany On the contrary, he ever showed himself careful to please; and even if he rambled in his talk, rambled always gently—like a humane, half-witted old hero, true to his colours to the last. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) In that case somebody would have been almost half-witted. Aces Up Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Grant whipped the whole school for teasing a little half-witted boy once–did you know that?” In the Heart of a Fool In the weak, handsome face and roving eyes the young people recognised Gibbie, the half-witted gipsy lad. The Adventure League She is a half-witted old soul who wanders about digging herbs in summer and lives on the town farm in winter. The Camerons of Highboro Barnaby knew that folks called him half-witted, but he cared little for that. Tales from Dickens For a long time the cries of that nameless female thing, as she struggled with her half-witted whelp, resounded through the house, and pierced me with despairing sorrow and disgust. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI “Maybe some lunatic or half-witted person has taken up abode here.” Our Next-Door Neighbors This, then, explained many things; not the least, the wonderful influence and control which Antonio had always maintained over his half-witted “left hand,” as the “boys” called the unfortunate hunchback. Jessica, the Heiress My dear," she said pleasantly enough--though, of course, the term had no accent whatever of affection--"this half-witted brother of mine once in a while stumbles upon the most brilliant inspiration imaginable. Nobody Not only did he let her live rent-free in a house he owned, but he did many a kind deed secretly for her half-witted son as he grew older. Tales from Dickens In a second, the half-witted, ragamuffin Smiler bobbed his grinning face round the door post. The Spoilers of the Valley It’s a new chap running it––a half-witted man from Texas. Nan of Music Mountain One night a half-witted feller asked him how many men he'd chopped. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin He was considered a half-witted sort of fellow, who inherited a little money and didn't know what business to engage in. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America For, while his persecutors were dragging him one day along the streets of the city in derision, a half-witted fisherman stabbed him dead with a knife. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture I've always been concerned about your permitting that half-witted outlaw to come here! Sunlight Patch Did the most absurd things, and appeared to be little more than half-witted. The Prairie Child They would rather consult a half-witted errand boy or a deaf railroad porter. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman He was a harmless, light-hearted fellow, whom some men called half-witted, but who was much cleverer than he appeared at first sight to be. Tales From Scottish Ballads "He is a kind, of half-witted mischief-maker, who does not know what he wants, and gets in everybody's way?" An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Would you mind telling me how you happened to be hanging onto that stump, in rags, and looking half-witted when I—when I came by?” Seven Miles to Arden The half-witted pedantry of the German doctrine and practice of war, which uses brutality as a protective mask for cowardice, was far from them. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force The subject of Woman's Rights came up for discussion, and opinions were expressed pro and con, when suddenly there came striding up the aisle an awkward boy, half-witted and about half-drunk. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In novels, as you know," went on Don Carlos, paying no heed to her protest, "the fair heroine usually marries the gallant who rescues her, or her half-witted brother, or her aged parent, from drowning. Bandit Love Among the prisoners of Arnold was a young half-witted fellow who was condemned to death. How the Flag Became Old Glory “If ye were not half-witted, would ye mind telling me how we came to be taking the wrong road at the church?” Seven Miles to Arden That half-witted fellow ought not to be allowed to go free. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life The terrible crime which the unfortunate woman had committed at your instigation had turned her brain, as you anticipated, and she, docile and half-witted, was entirely beneath your influence until——” and he paused. The Seven Secrets It is all right; she is the half-witted Indian girl—if she has any wits at all—of whom I was telling you. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France They are perhaps passable portraits of the languid, half-witted, hydrocephalic creatures who made them. William Shakespeare He looks as half-witted as those back in the Old Country who have the second sight and see the faeries. Seven Miles to Arden We might as well be asked to give civic rights to cows and pigs as to this unhappy, half-witted race who can no more count than the beasts of the field. What I Saw in America In addition to the men, a man and his wife who cook and take care of the camp, and a half-witted chore boy. The Writing of the Short Story Isidore's pity for the half-witted girl was presently lost sight of in what had first been only the inconvenience, but had latterly become the positive suffering inflicted on him by those unfortunate boots of his. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Their name was derived from a half-witted man who had destroyed two stocking frames many years before. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) "Martha Brochel, your honour, a poor half-witted creature, who was one of the first in the town to lose a child," the door-porter replied; "and the shock of it has driven her mad!" Werwolves The man who is known as Moole is a half-witted old farm labourer who was picked up by Farrington some years ago to serve his purpose. The Secret House A half-witted middle-aged man, mooning among a litter of books, with an old woman, and a little Frenchman to look after him. The Light of Scarthey Fortunately the settlers at Little Creek had been warned of their danger by a half-witted Indian orphan girl, on whom Pritchard had taken compassion some time before, and who had become domesticated amongst them. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France "I've got a feelin' that if I were allowed to go into the forest, disguised, sir, as a sort of half-witted native chap, sir——" "Disguised!" said Hamilton. The Keepers of the King's Peace She struck a chord, but the half-witted bellows-blower, whose presence they had forgotten, had ceased to pump air into the organ, and there came only a painful droning from the empty pipes. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg But some said that Brock Cyrus’s half-witted boy was the cause of it. Blue Ridge Country She is only half-witted, you know, and didn't do her teachers much credit. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Once more the half-witted, shambling figure gave place to a sparkling, self-possessed, laughing young witch of fourteen, who with another mock curtsy introduced herself. A harum-scarum schoolgirl He is a poor half-witted creature, and the temptation was too much for him.” The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps I cannot say this too plainly: An Egyptian who has had reading and writing thrust on him is, in every case that I have met with, half-witted, silly, or incapable of taking care of himself. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Rob MacNicol was doubtful; for he had never heard of this thing before; but he could not resist the importunities of the old half-witted creature. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Clumsy, homely, and half-witted enough to sit on a tack for five minutes before he howled—I've seen him do just about that—he knows when he needs a protector. The Short Life It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law, in fact, that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Shut your mouth, child,—you look half-witted with it open that way. The Heart of Arethusa “You were saying that Lydia was queer and half-witted,” said the Judge moderately. The Squirrel-Cage The old, bent, half-witted man looked cautiously at the bed, in which Neil lay fast asleep. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Aristippus was an excellent example of this, when overcome in argument by the 128sophistry of a man, who had plenty of assurance, but was generally speaking mad or half-witted. Plutarch's Morals "An old neighbor of mine who is half-witted," replied the queen, quickly. Italian Popular Tales Once she was a bright little thing, but she had fallen on her head, and though she did not seem much hurt at first, she became half-witted, and was now an idiot. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Robert, who was a half-witted old man, used to hang about the place, do odd jobs, and make himself fairly useful. The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge This Daft Sandy, who will turn up in our history by-and-by, was a half-witted old man, who spent his life in fishing for flounders from a rotten old punt he had become possessed of. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols His favorite victim is some half-witted fellow—tho’ a customer who is partly deaf may do and he is always ready for a yokel or a foreigner. Sam Lambert and the New Way Store A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks Once upon a time there was a king and queen who had a half-witted son. Italian Popular Tales Once there came along a man who all said was half-witted. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The people were very glad indeed to accept his services; and when they found that the child was only half-witted, they formally offered the crown of Macedon to Philip. The Story of the Greeks The half-witted creature did not seem to see the point of this remark. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols The faithful half-witted lad who serves the king as his fool plays the jesting chorus on his master’s fortunes in penetrating earnest and deepens the desolating pathos. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles In one of these an elderly, pinched little man who looked almost half-witted, was monotonously scraping a battered fiddle, for two solemn couples to dance round and round, always on the same axis. Lady Betty Across the Water Old Becky, as she called herself, was a poor, harmless, half-witted woman, who roamed about the neighborhood, subsisting on charity, whom everybody knew and cared for. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel It is the same feeling that makes the half-witted attend funerals and church services. The Nebuly Coat Macgregor had prevailed upon the same crew to go with him again, and the owner's back was scarcely turned before he commenced to drink and ill-use the poor half-witted Ralph who was in his watch. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Let them really read the thing and really see whether the humour is the gross and half-witted jeering which they imagine it to be. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens It would seem as if Nature, when she made this block of stupidity in a world of wits, provided for him tenderly, as she would for a half-witted or idiot child. Wood Folk at School A certain half-witted lad, who had followed Sir Hugh back to Dangerfield on that fearful night, might have elucidated the mystery; but he had been kidnapped, and sent to the plantations. Kate Coventry An Autobiography Indeed, she perceived, to her horror, that he was half-witted, and could articulate with difficulty. The Hot Swamp I have not, indeed, got the length thou hast—of wandering about like a poor ghost or a half-witted fellow, but I have seen enough of such matters to know what common sense says.” Erling the Bold Poking it with his cane, he caused it to uncoil and display the vacant, features of a half-witted negro boy. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale I remember the man perfectly, and a queer fellow he was, half-witted, I thought, and at the time of the trial within an ace of dying of consumption. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Believing that the hut must be on fire, she hurried up towards it, though she feared that she should be too late to render any effectual assistance to its half-witted inmate. Mountain Moggy The Stoning of the Witch Meanwhile, the innocent cause of all the disturbance had been as much scared by the team as had the half-witted boy by him, and was making for the deep woods at his best pace. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear They met a peasant, a half-witted fellow; he had seen such a party—a carriage with ladies, a waggon and some horsemen—pass an hour before. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War The room was empty, dark, deserted save for an old woman, half-witted, who was crouching on the floor before the sacred Icon, rocking herself and mumbling. The Black Cross Others utterly failed to comprehend the question; and a few pityingly tapped their own foreheads, and shook their heads at the two half-witted English holiday-makers. Roger Ingleton, Minor He is a half-witted spark, a fugitive from justice, and, to boot, an impudent coxcomb whom I have had ten minds already to pitch over the ship’s side. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess They looked upon him as a benevolent individual, bent on getting the half-witted vagabond out of trouble, and, as such, they knew quite enough of fishing to see that he was in their net. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton "All right," said Fuller, still mystified, "when you half-witted physicists recover, please let me in on the joke!" Islands of Space Stop stuttering and come to life, you half-witted bag! The Galaxy Primes He is a silly, half-witted virtuoso, positive and surly; fond of everything antique and foreign; and wears clothes of the last century. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 In sooth, this maiden needed a friend and comforter sorely; and how was she to fare on that long troublesome journey with no comrade but a rough man, and perchance a half-witted poet? Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess It might be a half-witted person, and I’m sure I don’t know which I’d rather meet after dark—a ghost or a crazy man.” Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Then from the brush which grew among the rocks emerged the form of the half-witted boy. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Only just now a fellow came along in a canoe—a half-witted kind of Canadian. Fort Amity The dispute at length grew so hot that a half-witted servant seized a dung-fork and rushed at the ambassador, who took to his heels, fearing to have his fine clothes soiled. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. Instantly she dismissed the suggestion, condemning herself for paying any attention to the empty vaporings of the half-witted, childish, old woman. The Secret of the Storm Country So unresponsive and dumb was he that they called him half-witted. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories "Not for a million dollars—not for a million million!" cried the half-witted boy. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma His violent fall injured him seriously, and they say that the fright made him half-witted for the rest of his life. Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway The eyes which he saw were, in truth, only the two buttons at the back of a frock-coat: perhaps some traditional memory of their meaningless character gave this half-witted prominence to their gaze. The Napoleon of Notting Hill The same insatiable craving is shown in poor Isaac K——, the half-witted boy, whose droll sayings of a half-century ago are still remembered about Boston. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Plenty of half-witted men whom one meets in the every-day walks of life have destroyed the better half of their understanding by this wretched practice. Plain Facts for Old and Young It took a good deal of talking to get a straight story from the half-witted youth, but at last Pawnee Brown was in full possession of the facts. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Mercier rose from the chaise longue, still thinking deeply, still stirred by the vague emotion that had called forth an answer from the immature, half-witted child. Civilization Tales of the Orient His frequent revelations for three years, and the commencement of his public preaching to the Koraish, who would not listen, but regarded him as a half-witted poet. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature We were once asking some questions about him of an old, half-witted woman, a former slave of his. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Silent and morose, he lived apart from all his fellows, who regarded him as a half-witted miser. Cobwebs and Cables It's a poor half-witted lad, my Lady, and they thought he had stolen some clothes. The Drummer's Coat She was fourteen years old, you see, and fully developed, partly because she was half-witted, and partly because of these hot temperatures under the Equator. Civilization Tales of the Orient The cows and a pair of draught oxen were under his charge, and he lived there with his wife and a half-witted herdsman. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag The representation of the half-witted Job--a character upon which the author clearly labored hard--neither arouses interest nor touches the heart. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Not far in front of me in the line of march there was a poor, old, half-witted woman, who became the target of gibes and jeers; I felt fierce protection of her. The Fifth Wheel A Novel I believe you've got hold of the wrong man; for this is only a poor half-witted lad, not the man that you want. The Drummer's Coat And every morning, almost by accident, he met the half-witted child with her faithful Kling attendant. Civilization Tales of the Orient "If you were to put an old parchment covered with manuscript before him, he would give you any mortgage you liked for it; he is half-witted." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Tom knew the half-witted fellow, and quickly whispered an appeal to him. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South With the addled craftiness of a half-witted creature he set about escaping from the imprisoning walls of the gully-dungeon. The Lost Valley "Why, it was easy to see that he was but a poor half-witted creature," said Lady Eleanor, "as harmless as a child; his mother told me that she hardly let him out of her sight." The Drummer's Coat He had heard that idiots or half-witted people were like that. Civilization Tales of the Orient The whole business of Prussian militarism, with the half-witted philosophy by which it is justified, has to be imposed upon him from without by his masters. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers "We had better walk the rest of the way," said the half-witted lad. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South I relinquish the steel helmet and holy grail adjuncts, and exploit myself to your ribald gaze and half-witted laughter just as I is. At Home with the Jardines Hysterical women and half-witted men, without possessing her abilities and understanding her objects, beheld unmeaning visions, and dreamed childish dreams. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Just then Wilbur, glancing over the circle of men, saw standing among them Ben, the half-witted boy who lived in the old hunter's cabin. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters A half-breed cooked for him; a half-witted French-Canadian girl did unimportant tasks about the bedchambers, but the host himself took his patrons into his own safekeeping and their secrets along with them. The Place Beyond the Winds Poor half-witted Charlie was kept steadily at work,—although he was not able to do much, for his body was about as feeble as his mind. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Others seemed half-witted and dazed as a result of the brutal treatment which they had received. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Perhaps, half-witted as she had been, this was in reality her life, not the other that for sixty years she had been visibly living. A Dozen Ways Of Love The Ranger had a 'phone put in for Ben, who had learned how to use it, and by good fortune the half-witted lad knew where to find Rifle-Eye. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters I praise you greatly for it, but that child is half-witted. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish “Well, I should think you were half-witted to go out in this soak if you could keep a roof over your head,” cried Cheeseman, but Jerome was gone. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The old half-witted jester of Luxor has found me out—he has wandered down here to see his eldest son who is serving in the army. Letters from Egypt The term at once calls up images of stunted figures with ill-developed brains, half-witted creatures, hardly distinguishable from the admittedly insane. Illusions A Psychological Study Ben had struggled up to a sitting posture, and Merritt repeated his question as to the whereabouts of the logs, the answering of which had brought the big millman's anger upon the half-witted lad. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters The half-witted creature responded to the caress, and allowed herself to be led to the boat. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Our friends have been occupied with the case of a half-witted boy who consumed Penny Dreadfuls and afterwards went and killed his mother. Adventures in Criticism Diogenes reproached a half-witted, cracked-brained unfortunate with this remark, "Surely, young man, thy father begat thee when he was drunk." Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada "His sole object, then, was to free that half-witted poet?" asked Asru, incredulously. The Days of Mohammed But Wilbur was by no means satisfied and he plied the half-witted lad with questions until he had secured all the details of the story. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters A half-witted old Tartar; you will get nothing out of him, sir. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood Her fate was similar to that of the average woman of pleasure—forgotten, half-witted, stooping to any act of indecency to gain a few sous. Women of Modern France To suppose that the Fool is, like many a domestic fool at that time, a perfectly sane man pretending to be half-witted, is surely a most prosaic blunder. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth The audience was usually strengthened by some half-witted girls that the Convent educated, and two angelic nuns. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The half-witted lad passed his hand across his eyes. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters The tragic irony of the whole is skilfully heightened by the fact that it is half-witted "Clutie," with his penny whistle and his random words, who goads young Andrew to his vengeance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 The language too is easy, such as fell Unstudied from his pen; not like a spell Big with mysterious words, such as inchant The half-witted, and confound the ignorant. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II It is not that I am mortified to all ambition, but I scorn as much to take it from half-witted judges, as I should to raise an estate by cheating of bubbles. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Having delivered himself of this choice morsel of song, the half-witted fellow conceitedly challenged the attention of the group whom he had not hitherto been disposed to see. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia The half-witted lad nodded his head vigorously several times. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Outside the walls of the castle she meets with an old half-witted harper, Lothario, who soothes the passion of her grief. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. As we sat at our doorway, we saw a half-witted child at play before the next house. In Indian Mexico (1908) At length he hit upon a poor half-witted lad, who was also hard of hearing into the bargain. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel In another moment, and he was lost to sight in the gloomy shadow of the entrance-passage pointed out to him by the half-witted, but not altogether ignorant dwarf. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia "Boy fool," said the half-witted lad, pointing at him. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters To her horror, the half-witted dwarf was ready to act on her suggestion. Jerusalem The feeble-minded and half-witted are nowadays caught up into asylums, for better care, and to ensure that their trouble dies with them. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London A simple-minded—half-witted—young woman was taken advantage of by a young man resident in the neighbourhood, to the public scandal of the village. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century The Turk he shyly bit his thumb, And coyly blushed like one half-witted, "The pain is in my little tum," He, whispering, at length admitted. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs Neither McGinnis nor the half-witted lad were in any mood for speaking, Ben nursing a badly swollen jaw, and McGinnis weak from the body blows and the lame shoulder he had received in the fight. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters She arrives at Evian penniless and half-witted with the terror of her sorrow. Out To Win The Story of America in France None better offered than a half-witted sheepherder commonly known as Willie, who chanced to be in town by buckboard from the lower country. Heart's Desire Why, he was a half-witted, impertinent, overbearing booby, and his author longed to get him across his knee, and correct him in the good old way. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal He resolved to use all he knew of the cunning of the law to save this half-witted savage. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains As soon as they reached the clearing they were met by a big, shambling youth, whose general appearance and hesitating air proclaimed him to be the half-witted lad of whom Wilbur had heard. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Men, women and children—they all had the appearance of being half-witted. Out To Win The Story of America in France What I said was idle, half-witted, gossiping nonsense. The Younger Set There was no more touching of hats to upstart lieutenants and half-witted captains or colonels. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Fate acted rapidly through the agency of a half-witted mind. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains But Wilbur's wish met its fulfillment, for just for the space that one could count ten the wind slackened, and every second meant a few yards of safety to the half-witted lad. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters And you come here and ask us to give countenance for a moment to a half-witted girl that says she belongs here in Ida May's place, and claiming Ida May's name. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod I guess that was this girl's particular genius—not giving up when everyone else could see that she was talking half-witted. Ma Pettengill Johnny might be half-witted, but his remarks were curiously penetrating sometimes. Judith of the Godless Valley It was no longer human beings who contended over this poor, half-witted being, but brutes, less reasonable than he. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Otherwise their irrelevant answers would make them appear half-witted. Etiquette "The poor thing must be half-witted, of course," Mrs. Ball said ruminatively. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod I simply remarked that I disliked the touch of half-witted persons, whereupon he declared that he had wit enough to be offended. The Touchstone of Fortune So there he is, left with the feeble old wife, and the half-witted son, who grows queerer and madder than ever. The Mating of Lydia This Arrhidæus was the son of Philip by a low and disreputable woman named Philinna, and was half-witted in consequence of some bodily disorder with which he was afflicted. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. They were inclined to believe that some half-witted person was concerned, drawn, perhaps, from the alien population which had been floating through the district, and bent on mischief or robbery—or a mixture of both. Harvest I bring you here to resolve me, if you can, a curious puzzle in archaeology, and you fall to playing devil's pranks upon a half-witted child. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts He was a wild, unkempt figure, with a long black beard—a dervish by profession, and certainly gave no one any reason to believe that he was more than half-witted. War in the Garden of Eden But old Brand was gone to his rest, the elder son had sailed for Canada, and the younger seemed to be a harmless, half-witted chap, of no account. The Mating of Lydia It looks indeed rather like something done by an earthquake; an earthquake with a half-witted sense of humour. The New Jerusalem So he took pipe and dried leaf tobacco from this half-witted skunk, who, having wiped the stem in his eight-inch-long pants, handed it over in a manner befitting a monarch. Across China on Foot An old half-witted man and his goitred wife kept the place, and provided rough food and bedding for travellers, though interesting themselves in no wise with their concerns. Tom Tufton's Travels When the author of the Book of Job insists upon the huge, half-witted, apparently unmeaning magnificence and might of Behemoth, the hippopotamus, he is appealing precisely to this sense of wonder provoked by the grotesque. Robert Browning You know well enough I'm not one of those tail-wagging imbeciles who wakes up in the morning singing like a half-witted lark. The Tracer of Lost Persons They knew how to keep snug and warm even if half-witted "sourdoughs" didn't. Pardners "Why, she don't look to be half-witted," said the other. Hillsboro People I am speaking of reasonably fertile land, and hardly need to point out that in offering any such price for mere barren foreshore I invite you to believe me half-witted. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales Even in 1820 there were such things as hired men and tradition declares that the one in my grandparents' employ was known as Jonas, had but one good eye and was half-witted. The "Goldfish" There is not one instance of a cure, and truly the treatment to which they are subjected is calculated to drive a half-witted person quite mad. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Not the men who lead labor--that's only what they call themselves; but the men who betray labor for their own pockets, the men who find dynamite for half-witted fanatics to set off. The Penalty There is a story of one of those half-witted creatures of a different character from the humorous ones already recorded; I think it is exceedingly affecting. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character I don't count old Duncan, her husband; for he's half-witted, and only serves to break the plates. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales She was quite hopeless, they said—and half-witted, some added! The Reason Why Therefore, never is their strife After those true joys to spur; In this lean and little life They, half-witted, deeply err Seeking here their bliss to gain, That is God Himself in vain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Finally, after abandoning the idea that mechanical means can possibly have produced the effect, Mr. Podmore falls back on the cunning of a half-witted girl whom nothing shows to have been half-witted. The Making of Religion I have two anecdotes of two peers, who might be said to come under the description of half-witted. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Am I hideous, or doting, or half-witted, as old men are? A Roman Singer The ordinary farce seems a world of almost piteous vulgarity, where a half-witted and stunted creature is afraid when his wife comes home, and amused when she sits down on the doorstep. The Defendant Is it because we give him our daughter to be the wife of his bandy-shanked, half-witted son? Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy In any case a half-witted girl, in Mr. Podmore's theory, can do what 'is quite inexplicable by ordinary mechanical means.' The Making of Religion But he had a half-witted friend, a ward-mate, who could coax him into his clothes when his oppressors found him most intractable. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography When addressing me, he related an anecdote of Rowland Hill, who, going to preach at a village, was requested to visit a good, but poor half-witted man. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York And Mart was always enraged at the sight of his half-witted son. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 And you can't ask her, you can't have the face to ask her, as long as you keep that half-witted creature dangling after you. The Obstacle Race There is not the shadow of evidence that the girl Rose had the inestimable advantage of being 'half-witted;' she is described by Mr. Podmore as 'the child of an imbecile mother.' The Making of Religion There have been many instances of this half-witted compromise. All Things Considered Most previous schemes for employing the unemployed upon colonies and waste land had failed because of the men put upon them, who were drunken, lazy, and half-witted. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" A half-witted cobbler who, learning that a tailor had advertised for "frogs," catches a bagful and carries them to him, demanding one dollar a hundred. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook You're always ready with some plausible excuse for that half-witted young scoundrel. The Obstacle Race There she was defeated, her son brutally murdered and all hope lost for the cause of her imprisoned husband, the feeble and half-witted Henry VI. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The driver of the vehicle, in which, under ordinary circumstances, Madam Conway would have scorned to ride, was a long, lean, half-witted fellow, utterly unfitted for his business. Maggie Miller It was just as though the other half of the wits of the half-witted boy who looked after them had distributed itself among the whole herd. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Unnoticed and lonely in the crowd, Alfred was almost sorry he was not half-witted too. Essays in Rebellion That rather reminds one of the story of a half-witted fellow who used to go about the country doing odd jobs, and asking in return a meal and a shake-down of straw or hay. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. It was that half-witted lad then who had perished in the park. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Laugh; but I will be known as I know myself, and as Flintwinch knows me, though it is only to you and this half-witted woman.' Little Dorrit The Turk he shyly bit his thumb,And coyly blushed like one half-witted,“The pain is in my little tum,”He, whispering, at length admitted. The Bab Ballads She was twenty-one years and twenty-one days old, when he brought her home to the gloomy house, his half-witted, frightened, and submissive Bride of three weeks. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Do you think we are going to hang for you, you black-faced, half-witted, drunken brute and butcher? Master of Ballantrae Poor creature; Amory supposed she had never before been noticed in her life—possibly she was half-witted. This Side of Paradise He hired a poor half-witted fanatic to go and murder William of Orange. The Story of Mankind Her half-witted old mother caught at the idea of a few weeks' longer life, and asserted that she was pregnant. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 He must have thought me half-witted, and indeed before long I began to be of the same opinion myself. Prester John When she HAD got a notion once fixed in her mind she was, like other half-witted people, as obstinate as a mule in keeping it. The Woman in White The matron had handed him over to a sort of half-witted inmate of the house, whose wits, however, were strangely about him at the wrong time, to nurse and amuse him. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire As long as Russia was ruled by Paul I, the half-witted son of Catherine the Great, Napoleon had known how to deal with the situation. The Story of Mankind VI.—It is objected that we should be left with a considerable residuum of half-witted, helpless people. In Darkest England and the Way Out No shiftless poor white, no half-witted or hungry negro, had ever gone unfed from Mis' Molly's kitchen door if Rena were there to hear his plaint. The House Behind the Cedars A half-witted boy of the school became enamored of the young master. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence? Merry Men Soon afterward, his father-in-law, Philip IV, one of the half-witted Spanish Habsburgs, died. The Story of Mankind There are babies a plenty, and one half-witted girl. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Walden In the heavy shadows of a big tree before Doctor Welling's house, he stopped and stood watching half-witted Turk Smollet, who was pushing a wheelbarrow in the road. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life For a long time the cries of that nameless female thing, as she struggled with her half-witted whelp, resounded through the house, and pierced me with despairing sorrow and disgust. Merry Men He was so deaf that the more business-like assumed him to be dumb; while the more penetrating declared him to be half-witted. The Innocence of Father Brown This pressure it was which caused the fits of somnolency so frequently to come upon her, and which gave her the appearance of being stupid and half-witted in those early years. Harriet, the Moses of Her People Orrick, the girl's father, a half-witted old dotard, was heard to say that he would shoot on sight. Captivating Mary Carstairs The man on the farm was a half-witted old fellow named Mook. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life I don't think the governor minds anything else; but he cannot stand our making fun of that poor, old, half-witted chap. Wild Kitty He was maddened by one of those half-memories that make a man feel half-witted. The Innocence of Father Brown This half-witted mammoth—don't ask me how he came to be here—thought he recognised in me some one he had known in India. The Bronze Bell Indeed, it turned out that an under-gardener employed by Mrs. Kirkbride, our neighbor, about this time, a shambling, peaceful, half-witted goat of a man, was one such; and a perfect red-Indian upon a trail. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories When the half-witted old man left his husking of corn and came into the wood to meet Elmer Cowley, he was neither surprised nor especially interested in the sudden appearance of the young man. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Full as her mind was of Gilbert Crosby, the failure of this half-witted companion depressed her as, perhaps, nothing else could have done. The Brown Mask Mr. Bundercombe was partly convinced, but more than ever sure that he had found his way into a country of half-witted people. An Amiable Charlatan Now, it is entirely weak and half-witted to appeal to the future. Alarms and Discursions There was a half-witted girl in the village, ill-treated and enslaved by a miserly old aunt. The Coryston Family A Novel The conspirators met at Bayeux, the day before their intended treachery, and, whilst dining there, called in to amuse them a half-witted man named Gillos, and the plot was, inadvertently, mentioned in his presence. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Whilst I was in this state of reverie, one of my servants—an odd Irish fellow, who, under pretence of being half-witted, took more liberties than his companions—bolted into my presence. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 "Richards said it was a poor, half-witted creature," he murmured, as though thinking aloud. Gloria and Treeless Street If love is blind, self-love is surely half-witted as well, for it never sees nor understands that the world is fooling it. Roden's Corner Among these were some half-witted persons, who, although not to be relied upon, were seldom to any extent mischievous. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood His fellow-criminals, for the most part, are obtuse, uncultivated creatures, some of them scarcely half-witted by nature, and others greatly decayed in their intellects through age. Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") More than any one whom I had ever seen, he had the knack of seeming half-witted—too simple to overreach, and yet sufficiently acute and droll to divert his master. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 "But, dear," interposed his wife, "half-witted creatures can be killed!" Gloria and Treeless Street To be a sincere member of it, a man must be a half-witted fool, a religious fanatic, or a rogue for whom no duplicity is too scurrilous, even though it amount to blasphemy. The Slave of the Lamp I got on the horse which the guide, a half-witted fellow from the next valley, was holding for me, and we set out. Wilfrid Cumbermede But sickly, slight, half-witted and a child, Will England have him king? Queen Mary and Harold Who but a half-witted dunce would ask how those that are unfeeling can have sufferings? Tales and Novels — Volume 04 For a moment his blood seemed to stand still; then all the divine senses of the half-witted returned to him. Heather and Snow These threats had frightened the poor half-witted fellow, who thought he was going to be beheaded, having no idea of what his punishment might be. Rico and Wiseli A species of half-witted serving-lad, whom charity had induced the old man to harbor among his dependants was seen issuing from the woods, nearly in a line with the neglected clearing on the mountain-side. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish From his gentleness and lovingkindness to live things, there were who said he was half-witted; others said he saw ghosts. A Rough Shaking "They have only left me the decrepit and the half-witted," she said, "but I am not beaten yet." The Isle of Unrest But only Kirsty knew that the half-witted had sought and found audience with the Eternal, and was now in his presence. Heather and Snow She thought of him at that moment as half-witted. The Woman with the Fan It is plain that the poor fellow was mad or half-witted or both. Among My Books First Series His eyes were so blank and vacant that I imagined he had become half-witted, and remarked it to Mr. Wilde who replied that it was of no consequence anyway. The King in Yellow "Yes, a poor half-witted soul apparently—must have been, to imagine that a subterfuge like that would succeed in London." The Christian A Story It describes two innocent children gradually growing at once omniscient and half-witted under the influence of the foul ghosts of a groom and a governess. Tremendous Trifles Of all the half-witted dumbbells I ever saw in my life," they will say, "he wins the cement earmuffs. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago What sane-minded person can possibly take an interest in a succession of childish tricks played by two lovesick boobies upon a half-witted old man? Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama To the front shuffled an old, half-witted hag, with thin gray hair and pendulous lower lip. The Call of the Cumberlands He was a half-witted Irish lad, named Arthur O'Connor, about seventeen years of age, who had been a clerk to an oil and colour merchant. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 Dyckman pleaded, like a half-witted booby, "Let's take a little longer ride." We Can't Have Everything He spoke in a wild, incoherent way, and seemed to be half-witted. At Agincourt But tomorrow some miserable, chinless, half-witted reptile of a caddie with pop eyes and eight hundred and thirty-seven pimples will find it, and will sell it to someone for sixpence! The Clicking of Cuthbert Drink and debauch having already rendered his younger brother half-witted, the task should not be a difficult one, especially as half the people and the whole army side with the illegitimate, though more popular, prince. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán Because a half-witted Negro attempted to murder a white man, a large mob stirred up the city again. A Century of Negro Migration He wandered about the isthmus, half-witted, forgetting his name, nursing one idea. The Abandoned Room This threat was much more efficacious than those of the half-witted man had been, and the boys at once took to their heels. At Agincourt It was impossible to see the face of the half-witted guide to gain any information from his gestures. The White Waterfall The half-witted incompetent will, as we know well enough, speedily disappear under the stress of competition, and his place will be taken by more efficient men. Supply and Demand "Poor, half-witted old woman! she might a great deal better be in the poor-house." Mercy Philbrick's Choice Meantime, through a sister, the only remaining child, except a half-witted brother, he heard at long intervals from home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 He is but an idle, boasting, half-witted fellow, as harmless as he is silly. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story It was plain that the big man was half-witted—or nearly so. Bull Hunter Quite a change from the vaudeville show of the restless personal ambitions of vindictive fools and greedy scoundrels, the mischief and adventures of half-witted geniuses and licensed rogues that have been figures of the prologue. The Glands Regulating Personality They have divorced themselves from their own great poets, to follow vulgar half-witted political prophets. England and the War "A poor half-witted, thing," they said, "who could not say bo! to a goose." Boys and girls from Thackeray They reported him just a shade better than half-witted. Average Jones Stupid, ignorant, half-witted slave that you are sometimes, I can only marvel at how fittingly you were born to such low estate, for your thick-headedness. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs A half-witted tory boy who had been taken prisoner, was promised his freedom, if he would spread the report among St. Leger's troops that a large body of Americans was close at hand. A Brief History of the United States Now by a subsequent marriage Philip IV had had a son, a weak-bodied, half-witted prince, who came to the throne in 1665 as Charles II. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Nay," said Catherine, resuming the full career of her careless good-humour, "he must be half-witted beforehand, that gives me such an opportunity. The Abbot Well, if I needed an accomplice," said Average Jones thoughtfully, "I wouldn't want any better one than a half-witted man. Average Jones Ah, and our old parson had a good bit more than any one of these half-witted curates such as you see here in Brighton playing their popish antics in coloured clothes.’ More Pages from a Journal How did a half-witted boy once save a fort from capture? A Brief History of the United States Several prisoners were taken by him, and one of them, a poor half-witted youth named James Few, was, by Tryon's order, hung on the spot without trial. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time Professor Henderson caught her eye and significantly touched his forehead, giving her to understand that Harry was only "half-witted." Bound to Rise There was a cruel saying about Freddie Vandam—that if only he had had a little more brains, he would have been half-witted. The Metropolis The notion of the doorless room chilled him with that sense of half-witted curiosity which one has when something horrible is half understood. The Ball and the Cross Here," said I to myself, "here is Common-sense in the shape of a half-witted peddling fellow, blundering into Arcadia, in the shape of a haunted cottage, a woman, and a man. The Broad Highway But as, in course of time, several of his own friends joined us, I could not help noticing that the worthy Flachs was regarded by them all as a half-witted fool. My Life — Volume 1 The man looked up and grinned vacantly, for he was not even half-witted. Aladdin O'Brien Contrary to everything that I would have expected, you are really trying to save that poor half-witted girl whom you love from the terrible habit that has gripped you. The War Terror I had begun to wonder whether she were not merely half-witted. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The half-witted boy had destroyed the aim, and the alarm given by the report of his carbine enabled the boatman, whoever he was, to make good his escape at once. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus Jones, who bases his prophecy on the Bible, had hitherto been thought to be half-witted. The Hohenzollerns in America I saw that half-witted fellow, Billy Blake about. Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative Even a half-witted person, starting from home on a morning like that, and expecting to be absent all day, would have provided herself with dry stockings and slippers for a change. All's for the Best If I had made the same remark to an Englishwoman, she would have pitied me for a poor, half-witted gentleman. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Nor was the poor half-witted boy forgotten, but he received a share of the kindly welcome, and seemed in his peculiar way to understand and appreciate it, keeping continually by Komel's side. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus The only other boy near-by was Billy Butler, a poor, half-witted idiot, who lived with his family in a tiny cottage under the side of a hill. Master Sunshine He then would have thought it an accident, but for Perrault's own needless wonder, whence the shot came, and that same remark, that Billy Blake, the half-witted son of a farmer, was about that night. Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative In a way I was sorry for him; a poor half-witted wretch, whose life had been full of such gall and wormwood. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten The cook, a half-witted fellow, was another man who seemed to have no fear. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales But thanks to the bravery and skill of the poor half-witted boy, all had gone safely through, and now Komel found herself seated with the beautiful Zillah in Selim's cabin, safe from all harm. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus He was just a bit afraid that his friend, the half-witted boy, was in trouble. Master Sunshine In the evening, as I was strolling about the town, a poor, crippled, half-witted fellow came jerking himself across the street after me and offered himself as a guide. Winter Sunshine On the low parapet of that bridge I found Timothy Cooper, the stupid, half-witted labourer, sitting, idly throwing bits of mortar into the brook below. Cousin Phillis "It is all your fault, Monsieur," he shrieked, "for introducing into the club a half-witted creature like that." Simon the Jester It is the half-witted creature, who had followed and loved Komel so well. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus One would think you envied the end of that unfortunate, half-witted fellow! Thelma The poor half-witted rascal, who had not sense enough to serve the king, might still serve the abbot. Roman and the Teuton What matter if he be but a half-witted puppet? The Witch of Prague You may think he's half-witted; but he isn't. Simon the Jester So she went, and there presently was met by the Flounder, who was supposed to be asleep, but had followed her, a person of whom the half-witted Bridget was much afraid. The Lady of Blossholme But even in his fright he realized that Loudon could not have told Dobson the tale of the half-witted lady. Huntingtower He was an almost half-witted creature, with queer cunning ways, and the Indians looked upon him as a sort of Medicine Man, and feared him accordingly. This Country of Ours Ever since leaving Bear Island he had been keeping a carnival of grief in the pantry, until the cook became almost half-witted by reason of his Jeremiads. Letters from High Latitudes The man was a poor half-witted friendless creature, whom I had employed out of pure pity to keep my laboratory clean, and to wash and dry my bottles. Jezebel's Daughter Lastly, placed already in the roped space and guarded by a soldier, poor old Bridget, the half-witted, who was gabbling words to which no one paid any heed. The Lady of Blossholme Loudon must have told this man the story with which he had been fobbed off about the half-witted Kennedy relative. Huntingtower Englishmen think him half-witted, which is exactly what he intends them to think. John Bull's Other Island Well, Judith, you know best, for you are cleverer than common, mother always said, and I am only half-witted. The Deerslayer Don't you listen to him, Mistress; he's a poor half-witted creature. Jezebel's Daughter Here the third victim was waiting to join them, poor, old, half-witted Bridget, clad in a kind of sheet, for her habit had been stripped off. The Lady of Blossholme Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Six months afterwards she came forth with him to marry him, half-witted as he was. Beatrice Neither will harm a poor half-witted girl, Judith. The Deerslayer She had only stopped at our house on her way to the hotel; being unwilling to trespass on the hospitality of her partners, while she was accompanied by such a half-witted fellow as Jack. Jezebel's Daughter The people there hate the upstart race that rules them, and the king, who alone is left now that Amathel is dead, is old and half-witted, for all that family drink too much. Morning Star He was, indeed, half-witted, as he now proved. The Lion's Skin Jack hitherto had passed in the world for a poor, simple, well-meaning, half-witted, crack-brained fellow. History of John Bull However, she recollected that it would have seemed as impossible that the half-witted youth should marry as that he should be on the Continent. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife From all I can learn, he was only what is called "half-witted," when they received him at the asylum in London. Jezebel's Daughter This comforting dream and hope were given her by God's folk—the half-witted and other pilgrims who visited her without the prince's knowledge. War and Peace Of the history of his acquaintance with him Palford knew nothing, and that he should choose to burden himself with a half-witted invalid —in these terms the solicitor described him— was simply in-explainable. T. Tembarom Mahailey was one of eighteen children; most of them grew up lawless or half-witted, and two of her brothers, like her husband, ended their lives in jail. One of Ours Her husband was very feeble and infirm, and of a large family, the youngest, this half-witted son, was the only survivor. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Probably you are thinking, 'The man with whom I have to deal is old and half-witted.' Through Russia Sake, when heated, mounts readily to the head, and a single small cup excites the half-witted man-servant to some very foolish musical performances. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Lucy had seen to that, and, in fact, Slone was anxious to meet this half-witted fellow who had so grievously offended and threatened Lucy. Wildfire Both were more American than the old, half-witted soldiers who denounced the wasting, on a mere grave, of money which should have been given for drink. The Education of Henry Adams She calls her "poor Muchit," and considers her a half-witted creature. Men's Wives That was the stuff of which the King's faction was made, half-witted rakes who were arrogant without pride and volcanic without courage.... The Path of the King "Some people thought young Stanley little more than half-witted; but I have always maintained that he was not wanting in sense." Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 No one I know, except a half-witted boy, ever rode down among these monuments. Wildfire The President of the Court played this pleader a trick by appointing him to defend at the Assizes a half-witted peasant accused of forgery. Albert Savarus He is half-witted and has lost his memory. A Millionaire of Yesterday One of them says it was mounted by a half-witted man, seated with his face towards the tail of the beast, and having several hats piled on his head. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Then the world itself went half-witted and she screamed. The Man Who Knew Too Much The Northmen came about our land A Christless chivalry: Who knew not of the arch or pen, Great, beautiful half-witted men From the sunrise and the sea. The Ballad of the White Horse He made no resistance, but was still laughing in a groggy and half-witted style. Manalive Before we left that house, ten minutes afterwards, one half-witted touch was added which rolled all our minds in cloud. The Club of Queer Trades Are you a half-witted man playing the conspirator, or are you a clever man playing the fool? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Small as the percentage of the imbecile and half-witted may seem in comparison with the normal members of the community, it should always be remembered that feeble-mindedness is not an unrelated expression of modern civilization. The Pivot of Civilization But Mr. Jansenius soon made them understand that the position of a lady in the hands of a half-witted laborer was one of danger. An Unsocial Socialist You have suspected your father of some infamy that you dare not openly charge him with, on no other testimony than the rambling nonsense of a half-witted, dying old man. After Dark And now I began to perceive something else, which added the last half-witted touch to my mystification. The Club of Queer Trades No one liveth there," said Gascoyne, "saving only some of the stable villains, and that half-witted goose-herd who flung stones at us yesterday when we mocked him down in the paddock. Men of Iron Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to imbrangle. Tom Brown's School Days "I'm forgetting my ready-made relations—my half-witted aunt, and my uncle the rogue." No Name The deformed, the crippled and the half-witted abound. London's Underworld The poor half-witted fellow was so badly frightened that he could only groan. The Spirit of the Border The ghastly, callous fiendishness that lured an old, half-witted man to his death had Jimmie Dale in that grip of cold, merciless anger again, and there was a dull flush now upon his cheeks. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale And the crowds would go from tank to tank, looking in at us through the glass—with their mouths open, like half-witted flounders. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle This peon was a half-witted Indian who lived in a shack and did odd jobs for the Mexicans. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border
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