| 单词 | oaf |
| 例句 | In truth, Jaime's armor was gilded steel, but this oaf would never know the difference. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "This is too good for that oaf, and you tell him I said so," he said as he gave her the blade. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The lady did not ask your views, dwarf," snapped Kurleket, a great fat oaf with short-cropped hair and a pig's face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There the big oaf was, snoring like a fox cub in his earth on a winter’s night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "You doubt the word and honor of your prince? Insolent oafs! Curs! I'll have you horsewhipped." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "You always used to like calling me a dunderhead. And an oaf." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z If the gods had given her the strength they gave Jaime and that swaggering oaf Robert, she could have made her own escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tyrion had rather liked Robert Baratheon, great blustering oaf that he was . . . doubtless in part because his sister loathed him so. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wanted to hug the big oaf except he was standing in the middle of killer sheep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the word racist, to them, conjures, if not a tobacco-spitting oaf, then something just as fantastic—an ore, troll, or gorgon. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They got to the stables, mounted the horses, and were away before the two oafs had untangled themselves. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He remained where he was as the does hopped away, Nelthilta raising her voice to remark, “What a great oaf!” and half looking round in the evident hope that he would take her up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once an oaf chased me away from the Great Mosque. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like a sweet memory, but Grandmother told it in a bitter tone, as if she knew, even then, that Frank would turn into a big lumbering oaf. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Tyrion let the oaf tremble for a moment before he answered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Prydain belonged to us before the race of men came. You drove us underground. You plundered our mines, you blundering clodpoles! You stole our treasures, and you keep on stealing them, you clumsy oafs...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not your decision is it, ye great big oaf!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Whether the young actress hurt her Oscar chances by appearing more oaf than ingenue remains to be seen, but Portman clearly dispelled any notion that she is an elegant heir apparent to Audrey Hepburn. Oscars: Hollywood's death march of manners 2011-02-25T01:04:33Z For them, Borkman would have been less a reactionary oaf than a man genuinely caught out by society's shifting values. Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? 2010-10-25T09:57:00Z The movies would have you believe that middle school kids are either brutish oafs or tender snowflakes, eternally on the receiving end of wedgies, noogies and taunts. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z These jowly, slobbering oafs make the job of empathizing with them very difficult through the course of the 10 soul-crushing episodes. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead, in this adaptation of Pete Collins’ stranger-than-fiction report for the Miami New Times on the 1994-95 Sun Gym case, two people die, and two oafs wind up on Death Row. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z The snack vendor played by Song in “The Host,” who enlists his father and his siblings in a valiant crusade to save his daughter from the monster, is a bit of an oaf. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “If fiction has a role to play in this, and I’m not such a fatuous oaf that I think it really does, I think we have to start saying what being a hero constitutes.” The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z For all the production's knockabout panto spirit, it means this Arnolphe is more complex than the regulation commedia dell'arte oaf. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z When they – the oafs – go home they try to be a bit like the Three Chumps, talk like them. Top Gear; Michael Bublé's Day Off – TV review 2013-07-01T06:00:14Z The daughter is married to a bumbling oaf, whom she bullies with real glee. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Willard’s turn as a smug, clueless oaf peppering a dwarf with inadvertently offensive questions about his size is priceless. Review: ‘Mascots’ Suffers From Mockumentary Fatigue Syndrome 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In front of anyone else they would surely die, but a hangar full of car oafs humour and encourage them. Top Gear; Michael Bublé's Day Off – TV review 2013-07-01T06:00:14Z Their music is molten and tender, tainted only by the fact Sieglinde is already married to an oaf, and Siegmund's on the run from a marauding clan. Ring cycle day two: I am hooked 2013-07-24T12:04:26Z Like Siobhan, she is a sexual creature, full of lustful yearning, but she dreams of handsome bulls, not of Jimmy — or as she disdainfully calls him, “ze oaf.” Review: In ‘Charolais,’ Competing With His Mother and His Cow 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z As Billboard reports, “penguin” is French slang for an oaf. North American Premiere: Carla Bruni’s New Song “Le Pingouin” 2013-04-08T07:00:18Z Whether this is in contrast to the sofa oaf, or Samsung's sense of humour, is not made clear. The new Samsung TV advert 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z My own pet opinion is that the guys who make creepy comments on the street or grab you or constantly seek to reassert sexual possibilities in ways that make you uncomfortable aren’t just oafs. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z At first he doesn't accept her apology but, being the immature oaf that he is, Chris gets back at her by using her as human torpedo to destroy their gooey, disgusting alien target. In the end, "Peacemaker" is the villain-turned-hero worth crossing the TV galaxy for 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z With the help of Jake, and a convenient space ship, Reggie lands in 1621 in the Plymouth Colony, where the governor is a fat oaf and Myles Standish a blackguard with guillotine cheekbones. Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done 2013-10-31T23:00:09Z The venture left Stanford one of the world’s wealthiest men, though not, Harris suggests, by his own merit, especially “given the amount of financial chicanery going on” and his reputation as a “big oaf.” Review | A new history unveils the exploitative origins of the tech giants 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z I just have the sense that life is just this clumsy oaf. The Medea Hypothesis: Does life on Earth sow the seeds of its own extinction? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “I’ve never tried to avoid that. I’m not some remorseless oaf.” Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood dies at 75 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z He added: “I’ve never tried to avoid that. I’m not some remorseless oaf.” Joseph Hazelwood, Captain of the Exxon Valdez, Is Dead at 75 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z There is this caricature where the average militia member is this potbellied oaf who runs around and spouts all sorts of nonsense. Investigative reporter David Neiwert: Rittenhouse verdict a "green light for right-wing extremists" 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The famously provocative diplomat, who likened China to an “ugly oaf,” later apologized and deleted the post. Philippine 'Angels of the Sea' use their voices to repel Chinese ships 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “You’re like an ugly oaf forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend; not to father a Chinese province,” Mr. Locsin wrote. Palau invites U.S. military to build on remote islands 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Locsin also compared China to “an ugly oaf” which was “forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend.” Philippine diplomat apologizes for profanity toward China 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z “You. Not us. We’re trying. You. You’re like an ugly oaf forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend.” Top Philippine Diplomat Unleashes Expletive-Laced Tirade Against China 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z “You’re like an ugly oaf forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend,.” Philippines protests `blocking’ of its patrol ships by China 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z "Gracefully diving into this next year... #oaf," she captioned the clip. Courteney Cox stuns in little black bikini while 'diving' into her 56th year of life 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But Blake is also thoughtful, and highly critical oaf himself. For Native American athletes, basketball is more than a game 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z And when a prominent MP in the party you work for denounces you as “an unelected foul-mouthed oaf”, it may seem that the game is up. Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z But Trump is the central figure here, presented as Dumpty, a lumbering, slow-witted oaf who trudges through the book, intermittently stopping to wreak further unthinking damage on a world that deserved better. 'I don't think he'd get the jokes': why is John Lithgow writing poetry about Donald Trump? 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The Wildcats went 10 of 20 from 3-point range but were a dismal 3 oaf 13 from the foul line. Johnson helps Pitt had K-State first loss, 63-59 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z He is a faux tough guy who lets other people do the fighting for him, a needy brat who never accepts responsibility for his actions, an oaf with no trace of courage, class or chivalry. Opinion | Requiem for White Men 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z By the late 1800s, blackface minstrelsy had become almost entirely a vehicle of anti-black propaganda, broadcasting blacks as buffoonish, untrustworthy oafs to white Americans who, in many cases, had no other exposure to black people. 'Reasserting white power': behind the psychosis that gave rise to blackface 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z I was nearly a head taller and often felt like an oaf next to her. How a love child found her sister – and forged a secret friendship 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It wasn’t all body slams and body shots for Allen and Bills Mafia believers, though, with a couple of narcs also questioning their blessed big oaf’s big debut: How'd Your Team Do Twitter Edition: The Josh Allen era begins in Buffalo - Golf Digest 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z They’re confirmed oafs who, like their father, love saying the quiet part out loud, and who make themselves into fools jockeying for his attention. Toward a taxonomy of men online 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Trump may be an oaf, but the vicious strain of rightwing populism he introduced is not going away. Can liberals please work out how to win back the working class? | Thomas Frank 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In fact, what I’m upset about is that he publicly apologized to the oaf for having him removed. Hey PGA Tour pros, here's where Justin Thomas needs to know you have his back - Golf Digest 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The author should be commended for not embarrassing either herself or the drunken oaf. What Makes Someone a ‘Predator’? 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z I'm shaking with rage at this repulsive oaf as President. Analysis | The Daily 202: Ex-CIA officers running for Congress as Democrats 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z So tired of the "thoughts and prayers" from our elected oafs. Opinion | Preventing Future Mass Shootings Like Las Vegas 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z But, regardless of which party wins on Thursday, criticizing the oaf in the White House will continue to be an applause line. Theresa May’s Donald Trump Problem 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But humor is the best way to deal with these office oafs, she said. How to deal with ‘manterruptions’ and ‘menstruhaters’ in the workplace 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Back then, he quickly realized he would have to take measures to ensure that his drawings didn’t disappear, smeared on the shoulder of some oaf in an overcoat. George Condo goes from Kanye West's dark fantasy to painting his own demons 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z We need growth from the White House, not an oaf in it. Nothing Presidential About It 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Sure, your husband’s best friend may be a loudmouthed oaf who spills beer on your couch every time he visits. Friend Fail: When Your Partner Dislikes Your Pals 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z These selfish oafs should not be driving in areas of high population densities. Your Letters: Cancer’s Luck, Earth-Like Planets and Protecting Pedestrians 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Honestly, I love sports, but they just look silly and appear to be loud boorish self indulgent oafs who drink too much in first class and are out touch with reality. Universities Sell 'Experiences' That Allow Fans to Connect Directly With Teams 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z I considered him someone between a brute and an oaf, my own experience falling somewhere between assault and just a bad night. Getting to ‘No’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Wait for the inquiry before making your odious accusations and sounding like a foul-mouthed, despicable, pith-headed and uncouth, loutish oaf,” he said. Pravda lashes Tony Abbott as 'disturbed' over threat to shirtfront Vladimir Putin 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But it’s Mr. Affleck, as the sullen oaf of a husband, who holds the movie together throughout much of its running time. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z I’ve also seen how one generation’s frat oafs can grow up to be responsible parents, spouses and managers. To Fix Snapchat's CEO Crisis, Invite Jill Abramson On Board 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Well, one possible lesson would be that some Australian young men are uncultured oafs but then that would be a tautology. Links 09 Sept. Perhaps Everyone Should Grow Up About The Titstare Rumpus 2013-09-09T15:20:00Z When it comes to the Prince Regent he was presented as a dandified oaf - usually drunk and stupid. Blackadder and history 2013-06-15T03:52:03Z The gesturing to Brad was certainly not 'Hurry up, you oaf'. Chris Froome ready for "100% certain" role as Sky's Tour de France leader 2013-01-25T13:11:09Z I got up from my workbench and demanded that they leave: the tattlers, the oafs, the bores, the faithful. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Your friend over there--he is a niggardly oaf--has sent for the hundredman and the constable, and you are the quarry. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A changeling or elf child, Ð that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z You want to make a fool of yourself with that beggarly, grinning, broad-shouldered oaf of an Irishman, that's always at your skirts! Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z And be dragged at your chariot wheels, you oaf! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z However, there was no mistaking his cordiality, and I should have been an oaf and a churl not to have met him fairly by the hand he offered. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Now I found you out at once, you simple oaf, so you deserve to be delivered to Clovis. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The squireen's familiar manner of mentioning Doreen had stung her cousin, and filled him with a desire to warn her of the oaf's presumption. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z She merely thought the young men a set of oafs, and was displeased, in that they should have arrived too early. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z She did not fear their influence--poor country oafs! My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z With his regular features and indolent movements, he appeared to me like some overgrown village oaf, too stupid to work, too lazy to try. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z "Sodden oaf and fool, give me the chalice," he added, fiercely. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Here he found that some "illiterate oaf," as he characterized the person responsible, had put in upside down upon the shelves the standard works he had hastily amassed. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Miss Wolfe gladly echoed her aunt's suggestion, for she was burning to talk to Theobald, yet dared not in this public place, under the eyes of awestricken oafs. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z I'm a tactless oaf, I know, and me manners are atrocious to be for trying to break through the barriers ye've put up round yourself. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z It seems more strange now, after Kipling's fierce denunciation of the "padded fools at the wickets and the muddied oafs at the goal." My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z It was all owing to that oaf of a scullion, who had laid the large square copper-plate on the confectionery table, without remembering that it had been unused for a week. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z He then sought "oaf," whose definition was fairly clear. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z That oaf Tom might want to thrust his blundering foot into what was no concern of his. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z What a man of cleaner life and thought would simply have praised as sweet and chaste about her fired in this corrupt oaf his one gross substitute for sentiment. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And art thou such an oaf to be vexed at this? as the adventure may be managed, it may make the most pleasant one in all the carnival. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z He remembered that he, poor oaf, had been disappointed in her. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Merely to sustain an oaf from the public schools in a death grapple with an idyll of Theocritus. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z The Reformation can be beaten and endure, do you hear, oaf? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Little fool! why did she go and marry that great oaf?” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Given his obdurate public persona and his delight in flaying medical critics as “hypocritic oafs,” Dr. Kevorkian invited and reveled in the public’s attention, regardless of its sting. Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide 2011-06-03T14:18:19Z You d——d Christian cheats, you're an opprobrium to commerce and civilisation; you're the greatest oafs on earth, with all your police and spies. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z I know the oaf, one Nichet, who at home had not the wit to make a living. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Now, my lazy oafs," he went on to three boys who had long since finished supper, "what are you waiting for to take you to bed? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Curse you all for a set of cowardly oafs.... Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The astronomer Vera Rubin gets to pay a visit to the legendary physicist George Gamow to talk about the nature of the universe, only to discover he's an oaf who yells at his wife. Richard Panek's study of the cosmos,"The 4 Percent Universe" 2011-01-28T17:19:02Z There will be more, if Platini can persuade the big European clubs of the profitability of abandoning winter to muddied oafs. Michel Platini's talk of cultural change may give sports the summertime blues 2011-01-22T22:00:01Z It’s been my experience that these oafs who are lugging bags the size of a refrigerator actually are a small minority. On the Road: Carry-Ons and Courtesy Need to Co-Exist 2010-08-23T23:10:00Z It's much too large a subject to be left to what Kipling called "the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goal". Let's give theatre a sporting chance 2010-04-22T10:56:00Z "Unless that oaf Carrier is a bigger fool than I imagine him to be I think I have you this time, my elusive Scarlet Pimpernel." Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z He said some "oafs use them to prove the strength of their personalities with bone-crushers". 2010-01-28T18:18:00Z Thy father and half the village call me a lazy oaf, that I stray i' the woods some days instead of helping my father. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors In 1544 Catherine married Christopher Meyer, an only son, but an illiterate, dissipated, lazy and drunken oaf, who spent all his substance, and ruined a servant girl while my sister was in childbed. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster You idle young blackguards, you pestilent oafs, you fools of the first water, write them out. Sinister Street, vol. 1 "I think you should rid yourself of that obstinate oaf," was young Lalou�t's cynical comment, when Fleury had finally left the audience chamber; "he is too argumentative for my taste." Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z So by and by he again beheld that huge herdsman oaf who sat upon the mound as aforetold of, guarding his cattle. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions But after all, that great maundering oaf would never have spoilt my plans but for your cursed interference. The Firebrand She could not at all understand that a young man, who seemed to her to be an oaf, should really be in love,—honestly in love with her. Ayala's Angel And still Jeff stood there, lost, speechless, helpless, unready, a clumsy oaf, an object of pity. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Or you, you great, thick-skulled oaf of Geneva, or the Sorbonnist with the bald head and the eyes that look and see nothing? The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion He had the air of a prelate in whose presence an oaf has trampled on a crucifix. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes There is, however, an emollient in courtesy which has softened greater oafs than he, and that emollient Tristrem possessed. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel It was such a comfort that that oaf Tom had been left behind. Ayala's Angel But what the scaleless oaf didn't know was that this applied to Antarians only. Insidekick President.—You must either be a confounded oaf, or you wish to impose upon the court. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment She worries the basso,—poor, heavy, drowsy fellow,—because he's such a slow coach—and such an oaf. Physiology of The Opera It is only the big uncomplicated oafs that don't mind being managed by their women. Ancestors A Novel He was not in orders then, but was a soft-headed great oaf of a young man of nineteen, and that you should have understood. Francezka Who, questioned, mumbled in his bushy beard, "To buy a wife withal"; whereat they laughed As oafs when wisdom stumbles. Days and Dreams Poems It will not turn out so bad as that," muttered Vila chagrined: "Why should the oaf run off thus, as if----Aye! The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. "There may have been a secret expedition previously and perhaps they left a—a base or something, which would explain why—" "If you two oafs would stop speculating, you might help me out of here!" Collector's Item Why had he saved this oaf who meant nothing to him? The Ethical Engineer He could not speak when she first addressed him, his brain had gone into a whirl; and so he had sat there, like a great oaf of a miner, and refused to give her anything. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp I do not think I ever appreciated the meaning of two words until I knew Irvine—the verb, loaf, and the noun, oaf; between them, they complete his portrait. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Besides, the big, drunken oaf is a disgrace to me. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Where in reverence heads were bowed Surges now a careless crowd; “Muddied oafs” and “flanneled fools” Jostle “Yanks” with camping stools;— Gone the things that meaning gave “With the old world to the grave.” A line-o'-verse or two Swan Carlson, standing there like a great oaf, opened his immense mouth and laughed. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Emboldened by her passivity, the oaf advanced by inches, visibly. The Spanish Jade Said he: “I’m an oaf and have drunk too hard, To words of mine pay no regard.” Child Maidelvold and other ballads What was she sent down here for but to catch you, you oaf, you fool, you! Phoebe, Junior It is only when the men are oafs and louts that they are driven off. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Although she did not show it, she must have thought him a bumpkin, an oaf, an underbred cur. 'Me--Smith' She admired him a little for his conduct during their father's funeral; he was not such an oaf as she had thought—but she would bide her time. The Wooden Horse Believe me, not against you, but against that oaf Cumberland,” he said. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 He had taken the oaf's measure with a nice exactitude. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The oaf and sundry other persons went away. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite “The little oafs!” exclaimed Mrs. Stoddard, “and what else did they say?” A Little Maid of Province Town Darkness as black as——": then he shouted with a yet more forcible volley of oaths: "Jean! you oaf! get hold of the off mare, can't you? The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days If he knew how to play his cards—but there, the oaf will put his grate foot in it. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Said he: “I’m an oaf, and have drunk too hard, To words of mine pay no regard.” A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Heavens and earth! what an oaf was that young Thoresby as the two stood together near the door! Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite You are my little girl now, and those Cary oafs will not dare open their mouths to plague you.” A Little Maid of Province Town Books will have no savor for him; men of high attainments, unless their coffers brim with lucre, affect him no more than the company of the most unlettered oaf. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 To fell that huddled oaf with a blow would be a poor return for all he had endured because of him. The House with the Green Shutters Yes, yes," she nodded, "'the flanneled fool at the wicket, muddied oaf at the goal' type, you know. The Silver Butterfly This young squire from Lincolnshire was evidently an oaf. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Trust me to set this lazy oaf to work. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Joe Mauser could have polished off the oaf in a matter of seconds, had he been allotted seconds to devote. Mercenary Was he simply a powerful oaf, who relied on pure strength and savagery? Alarm Clock He remembered that she went about with the oaf. Jewel Weed “What has making cider to do with tinder, you great oaf!” cried Fred, angrily, so as to hide his emotion. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story “Send word to thy Lord, thou lither oaf!” cried the irate trumpeter, “and see whether it liketh him to keep the Lady awaiting hither on an even in January, while thou pratest in chopped English!” The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time For a double second he had the oaf alone on his hands and that was sufficient. Mercenary The oaf shambled along, his arm no longer around Gerda's waist. Pagan Passions She’s pretty in her malaise, pink, and pecking like a little wren at her oaf. Jewel Weed Yet the idea of letting her suppose him such an oaf as not to understand her, or not to appreciate the honor a lady's preference did him, was intolerable. A Love Story Reversed 1898 His brothers were mere oafs in learning, none of whom ever looked at printed paper save to make a fly-book of it. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North He and Joe were well matched and with the oaf as an ally really he had all the best of it. Mercenary Viewed objectively, there was nothing wrong with what the oaf was doing. Pagan Passions Mercy was carrying the pail, brimful; and that oaf sauntered by her side, with his hands in his pockets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 "Ah well-a-day, I am indeed an oaf, as thou sayest, to be so wrought upon by a coy maid's smiles or frowns, but have thy will mistress, have thy will." Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims If you don’t know that you have a gentleman on board, please to learn it now, and have the goodness to be off and take that clumsy oaf with you. Fitz the Filibuster I’m not going to bed before my time for laughing at that great oaf! The Armourer's Prentices With Bill Forrester dead, then, had she turned to the oaf for comfort? Pagan Passions I started up and screamed out, 'Oh, you clumsy thing! go curry-comb my horse, and send that oaf your head is running on to handle my hair.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 I felt the same way about the oaf as you did. Ten From Infinity I began to feel conscious, as I often did in her presence, that I was but a clumsy oaf; and, furthermore, suspected that Lucille was watching me over the book she pretended to read. Dross Josephine must have heard me say fifty times if she has heard me one that the man who fouls his tongue with an oath is a senseless oaf. The Opinions of a Philosopher I never heard old master make a oaf in his life, but when they brought the paper freein’ the slaves, he said, ‘Dad burn it.’ Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 At Fontan—when he had vouched for us—we dismissed our oaf, with a light heart and a heavy pocket. My Friend the Chauffeur And yet you think that she will be ready to accept this oaf as her husband to-morrow! Phineas Redux I was a clumsy oaf and did not know that those things made such a difference. Dross That afternoon I was upstairs, looking at the reflection of myself in the tall glass, wondering miserably why I seemed to be such an oaf. Romance One might as well walk ten miles out of one's way because some deaf oaf or other chose to sit upon a necessary stile. Certain Personal Matters "You great oaf!" cried Jeremy Stickles: "you are rather more likely to know, I should think, than any one else in all the kingdoms." Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor I had grown fatuous, for I had taken it without question that the oaf had followed from his loyalty to me. Montlivet But I want curses for those mighty shoals Of scribbling Chloris's, and Phyllis' fools: Those oafs should be restrained, during their lives, From pen and ink, as madmen are from knives. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 You go and herd with knaves and yokels, do you? and bring shame upon me, and set the countryside a-chattering of Richard Burke and his idle young oaf of a brother! In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India I know I might have done well in cricket, but Freedham used to say that excelling in games was good enough for Kipling's 'flannelled fools' and 'muddied oafs.' Tell England A Study in a Generation "Ah," I cried, for I could not help it; "you begin to understand at last, that we are not quite such a set of oafs, as you at first believed us." Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor The oafs saw nothing amiss, though to me the very air was shouting the secret. Montlivet You oaf you, do you not perceive it is the Italian seignior, who is come to sell me essences? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 I ant seed him; but he sade ad shute Tom soon is look at 'im, an' denide it, wi' mouthful o' curses and oaf. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Even now perhaps he was on his way to her, whereas I, poor oaf that I was, was moiling here over some trucky work. Twelve Men He thought how he himself had been like one of those oafs, living in a cottage not so many miles from this spot. The Devil's Garden He turned with composure, and fronted me with so much dignity that I stood like a blundering oaf trapped by my own emotion. Montlivet He felt as if he were an oaf, a lout. Flames And all he could do was to stand like an oaf and ask her to explain. The Mating of Lydia And when Maurice, taken all aback, made a stammering attempt to excuse himself, he continued: "Address me as major, do you hear, you great oaf!" The Downfall Upon occasion, who likes not a lively loon, one of your giggling, gamesome oafs, whose mouth is a grin? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I "If that—oaf—stays to supper, I go without!" The Tidal Wave and Other Stories It was unjust that anyone, knowing himself to be brilliantly clever, should yet be made an oaf by an incident so trivial. The Dark House It would be sheer sacrilege for you to dance with a young oaf who didn't know how. Greatheart Her husband too, that clumsy, heavy-witted oaf, how cunningly and how successfully withal she schemed for his advancement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 I adored you, you stupid oaf, until I found that you were a mere animal. Back to Methuselah Columbine had declared that the man was an oaf, and he felt inclined to agree with her. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories They had still the power to put him in the wrong and to make him an oaf and an outsider. The Dark House My lord, smiling, and gazing at me from head to foot; Lord Jackey grinning and laughing, like an oaf, as I then, in my spite, thought. Pamela, Volume II But man crouches and blushes, Absconds and conceals; He creepeth and peepeth, He palters and steals; Infirm, melancholy, Jealous glancing around, An oaf, an accomplice, He poisons the ground. Poems Household Edition “No. I was born on a Sunday, and if to see goblins and oafs—” “Nay, I read it, ‘Sunday’s child is full of grace.’” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago "Because I'm too big an oaf—to make you understand," he said. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories Rot him for an idiot, and an oaf! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 The oaf grinned his awful, writhed smile and wriggled his great body after the manner of a puppy desirous of the milk-platter. Red Axe Few of them will be found for public use, Except you charge an oaf upon each house, Like the train bands, and every man engage For a sufficient fool, to serve the stage. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 I understand now what a set of oafs we were to despise the poor fellow you wot of, because he was not such a lubber as ourselves. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Meanwhile I let him talk—he was a boastful, egotistical oaf, as might have been expected—and I flattered and admired him until he fairly purred with self-satisfaction. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta But the necklace, you great oaf, the necklace is worth all your farm put together, and your Uncle Ben's fortune to the back of it; ay, and all the town of Dulverton.' Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor It was only the poverty of taste shown in being seen in the open High Street of Thorn along with such an oaf as Michael Texel. Red Axe You booby dense— You oaf immense, With no pretence To common sense! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan And you, you great ill-fashioned oaf, with scarce sense enough to keep your mouth shut: were you, too, joined against me? She Stoops to Conquer I’m not going to bed before my time for laughing at that great oaf! The Armourer's Prentices And I make you a bet the oaf of a husband does not appreciate her! A Chair on the Boulevard By this time the great oaf had come back to the door of the house, and now stood alternately rubbing his elbow and rear, with an expression ludicrously penitent, at once puzzled and kindly. Red Axe I never saw such a lot of oafs. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories "And who expected to see any thing," said Bletson, "excepting those terrified oafs, who take fright at every puff of wind that whistles through the passages of this old dungeon?" Woodstock; or, the Cavalier He would rally Geoffrey on his flaccidity; accuse him of being an oaf; and, describing all the while in an inflammatory manner the charms of Alison, hint that Geoffrey's tutor had ambitions after them. The Highwayman "You great oaf!" cried Mrs. Cohen, and could have killed him. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 And there, our Michael, great oaf, sits at home desolated that he does not hear her foot on the stairs. Red Axe What an old oaf I am for asking, to be sure! The Channings Everybody says they are very pleasant, and I can see that they are to people who are not sticks and oafs. How to Do It If you don't make her warm enough for wiving, you're an oaf, which is not in my blood—nor your mother's, to be honest. The Highwayman David despised him for an oaf who could neither read nor write, and hated him for a bully. The History of David Grieve I'm a selfish oaf, and can only talk about myself. Jean-Christophe Journey's End The fellow was a huge stupid oaf, low down in the middle fourth, but the best bowler that the school had; yes, he hated him. Fortitude It is for boys and girls like Stephen, who think they are "sticks and oafs," and that they cannot go into society, that this paper is written. How to Do It It would be quite entertaining; the oaf would be forced to admit that he valued poetry according to weight. Shallow Soil There was little to be done in diplomacy with an oaf like that. The Fighting Chance Lizzie, when she had read this, had declared to herself that of all the female oafs she had ever seen, Augusta Fawn was the greatest oaf. The Eustace Diamonds We had time for some amiable exclamations, ‘The oaf!’ Chantry House "You lie, you oaf—no—why—Doctor—How many hounds are there here?" Two Years Ago, Volume II. Ah, it was delicious to have the great oaf sitting sulking under my fingers, longing to knock my head off, and I plastering away, with words of deepest astonishment and condolence. Two Years Ago, Volume I He had learnt a lesson, and no dull-witted oaf of a Gorilla was going to have him like that twice. Snake and Sword A Novel I felt as if I looked like an oaf, but how I appeared God knows. Inns and Taverns of Old London He quickly barred the guards' access to little Si'Wren with an outstretched arm, while the guards, stupid oafs, laid off and left her alone, to go for her three terrified accusers instead. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs I got cross—oh, so cross! and presently I passed the janitor's son, lounging along homeward, and he grinned, being an oaf, and said, 'Better let me help ye, hadn't ye?' Hildegarde's Neighbors An oaf, so little alive to his prize that he doesn't even see he has rivals; doesn't see that his brother loves her. It Is Never Too Late to Mend And each year since then the emperor of Rome had paid tribute to a nation of mongrel oafs. Imperial Purple And Dad, the great oaf, with Joe at his heels, followed her into the young lady's bedroom. On Our Selection For all of his great size, the stupid oaf wasn't half the man that Habrunt was—or at least, had been. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs This ducal oaf shall find me very ready for him. Love-at-Arms The oaf haled at the halter, but the rascal stirred not; so he turned and seeing the halter on a man's neck, said to him, "What art thou?" The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest Not to much effect, however, for the housemaid called him an oaf; and Robin would decidedly have had the worst of it had not the gardener come in and taken his part. Framley Parsonage What can an old man do?" said he with perfect sincerity to Carrington; "If I were forty years younger, that great oaf should not have his own way. Democracy, an American novel In quite a far corner,—but so that he could command the Kicklebury party, I thought,—he was eating his breakfast, the great healthy oaf, and consuming one broiled egg after another. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh "You good-for-nothing rogue! are you turned up again like a bad tester, staring into the kitchen like a great oaf, as you be?" The Pigeon Pie The man was a stupid looking oaf, and seemed too dazed to speak. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines And the oaf stood before him undisturbedly opening up the subject himself. T. Tembarom I noticed the stone-deaf man, the twisted oaf whose face I have described as being that of an ill-treated and feeble-minded faun. The Mutiny of the Elsinore “The flannelled fool,” “The muddied oaf,” is the pet of the people; their hero, their ideal. The Angel and the Author, and others My goodness!" said he to Torpenhow, "and this gray oaf dares to be a thief! The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition Yet it must have been the Devil himself that blew this young oaf with the bloated jowl on to the scene. Through Russia "For a fellow like that to lose a girl as he lost Lady Joan was pretty tough," the oaf said. T. Tembarom He was a twisted oaf of a man. The Mutiny of the Elsinore There was I telling tarradiddles by the yard to that old oaf, Sir Orlando Drought, when a confidential word from Plantagenet would have had ten times more effect. The Prime Minister In a trice there was a chicken, a bottle, a set of knives and forks, a white cloth, and a hungry oaf that did eat and swear! Old Friends, Epistolary Parody Do you suppose I am afraid of that pack of oafs sent by M. Lesdiguieres? Scaramouche There are no "flannelled fools" among them, but quickly there are plenty of "muddied oafs." London's Underworld With Nature's oafs 'tis quite a diff'rent case, For Fortune favours all her idiot race. The Way of the World |
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