| 单词 | slow-witted |
| 例句 | At suppertime my mother came in to ask if I were ill, and being too slow-witted to invent an ailment, I got up and went down to the meal. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Haven’t I just been and finished telling you? Are you slow-witted? I’m so sorry for you. It’s terrible to be dull and stupid. What’s your name?” she went on. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, he said, Copernicus was acknowledged by all astronomers except those who “were a bit slow-witted or under the superstitions imposed by merely human authority.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His misery made him slow-witted and careless and he was ashamed of the part he had played at the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few men, slow-witted and pale, played faro at the gamingtables. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This one may not be as slow-witted as he seems. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Atzerodt, the slow-witted German, did not know it, but he had just sealed his fate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that she must be related to Old Cudjo, who was so slow-witted he never laughed at a funny story until a half hour after it was told. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Because only a slow-witted person would have the same dream all the time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never felt like this—slow-witted and languorous, dreamy, absentminded, forgetful, focused only on each moment as it comes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Matt figured they allowed Ton-Ton inside because they thought he was too slow-witted to understand what he saw. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the past seventeen days, everyone on the team—except for slow-witted Heinck—had suffered from seasickness. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I glanced at Sander and knew from the stunned look on his face that, like me, he had guessed the truth that Nick was either too slow-witted or too unobservant to see. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He was lost the moment his slow-witted daemon hopped onto the monkey’s hand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Timing is everything, and Liza is a time bomb,” the Penguin later tells the slow-witted Gabriel. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Plays a Rigged Game 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z None more than Bob, who seems passive and slow-witted until his skilled disposal of a severed arm provides a clue to his true nature. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Much of his story focuses on the media scrum that envelops a small New England town after a double murder, and he has plenty of criticisms to deliver about the media’s “slow-witted sound and fury.” Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z How slow-witted you must be to fall for these scams. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, a potent symbol of the Allied struggle against the Nazis, “seems to have been written for the slow-witted, the not very musical and the distracted.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He plays Figaro as a hearty, decent if somewhat slow-witted guy, at the moment aflutter over his beloved Susanna, the countess’s maid. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I’m constantly fighting strangers’ criticisms that I am lazy and slow-witted, or that I am an overly emotional slob. Pictures of people who mock me 2013-04-23T23:30:00Z But the picture states its social points so bluntly that it becomes slow-witted and condescending; it treats the audience as pets. The Times Critics' Guide to 'Planet of the Apes' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet the Wodehouse, for all its airy wit, is not about nothing: It too is a story of deception, only in this case the kind that delivers delicious comeuppance to the puffed-up and slow-witted. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z You are still allowed to be fat on TV, indeed, you are positively welcomed, should a romantic lead or a policeman need a slow-witted sidekick. Poor, capable and funny: the return of Roseanne, the sitcom that broke all the rules 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z But the one that resonates most strongly with her is “Read a lot, forget most of what you read and be slow-witted.” Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All Bloggers 2010-12-18T00:33:20Z When he got out, there was a role as a slow-witted character waiting in the 1963 ensemble film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Groundbreaking Improv Comic Jonathan Winters Dies 2013-04-12T12:02:30Z Pollock’s slow-witted Brick might be best described as the dullest can opener in the drawer. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Although on the surface Sam seems to be a bit of a slow-witted, boyish man with a weird sense of humor, Maher creates a comical, multi-dimensional and realistic persona for him. Review: Annie Baker's 'The Flick' slow but funny 2013-03-13T00:10:10Z When he got out, there was a role as a slow-witted character waiting in the 1963 ensemble film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies 2013-04-12T17:08:10Z His laconic Australian drawl saw him often cast as a slow-witted simpleton who could serve as the butt of his co-stars' jokes. Australian actor Bill Kerr dies 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z He does a nice job portraying a slow-witted man who thinks he can charm or fool Eric, until the seeping of hope from his face testifies to his desperation. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Similarly capable of getting through to even the most slow-witted of audience members is Brighton's Zoe Lyons. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z So does the slow-witted bride-to-be whose fiance wants her to wear "a long hat" at their wedding to obscure her face, and the B&B-owning swingers obliged to care for a comatose family member. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z With no fiery breath of its own, and only metaphorical claws and wings, the virtual dragon proves a little slow-witted. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z He then gave her a role as Bea Arthur's repressed and somewhat slow-witted best friend in the All in the Family spin-off Maude. Rue McClanahan obituary 2010-06-04T17:24:00Z Think of him as the slow-witted accomplice to Pacino’s bank robber in “Dog Day Afternoon.” Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In the 80s his routine was infamous for his depictions of the character Chalky – a slow-witted and stereotypical black character with a weed habit and Jamaican accent. Jim Davidson: 'I'd say sorry if I could' 2011-03-06T22:26:00Z Even the cows get some gorgeous lines: “In the fields the cattle, made slow-witted by the rain, lifted their rapt and empty faces, heavy loops of spittle hanging, as though they ate watery light.” Once Upon a Time in Ireland 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z As the Cowboy, one of Harold’s birthday presents, Charlie Carver imbues the slow-witted hustler with an affectionate sweetness that only throws into relief Michael’s gratuitous cruelty. Review: The 'Boys' are back: Parsons, Quinto and Bomer bring the 'Band' party to Netflix 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z With his guileless, slow-witted charm, unerring decency and knack for being at the center history-making events, Forrest Gump became something of an accidental cinematic hero in an era of deepening cynicism. Winston Groom, author whose ‘Forrest Gump’ became a cultural touchstone, dies at 77 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Both the novel and the film tell the story of the title character, a slow-witted man from Alabama who accidentally becomes entangled with major historical events. 'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom dead at 77 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Irish rebels track down a slow-witted countryman who turned a friend in for reward money during the Irish Rebellion. Movies on TV this week: 'The Seventh Seal' on TCM 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z 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 Only the most slow-witted dullards, or delusional contrarians, continue to embrace the theory of moon-landing fakery. Yes, we landed on the moon. If you don’t believe it, try telling an astronaut. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z "I'm more tired, I get slow-witted," he says. How does six days on hunger strike feel? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z This might be an effective plan if Democratic congressional leaders were slow-witted children with no underlying interest in the substance of governing, and whose sole focus was on word choice and branding. Trump seems to think he can get a wall if he calls it something else 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “SpongeBob is a complete innocent — not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is,” Hillenburg said of his “absorbent and yellow and porous” creation and his slow-witted best friend. Perspective | ‘SpongeBob’ creator Stephen Hillenburg raised our spirits — and ocean awareness 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Socialism favors vigorous government interventions in the allocation of capital, directing it to uses that far-sighted government knows, and the slow-witted market does not realize, constitute the wave of the future. Opinion | What might a socialist American government do? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “I am not spoiled or lazy,” he wrote, “for murder is not weak or slow-witted, murder is gutsy and daring.” Can Security Measures Really Stop School Shootings? 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z But Neanderthals weren’t the slow-witted louts we’ve imagined them to be — not just a bunch of Neanderthals. Neanderthals Were People, Too 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The most unfortunate aspect of Ali’s legacy is that he never made lasting peace with Joe Frazier, the proud and courageous rival whom he often mocked as slow-witted and subservient to whites. The Dodgers' spending on Carl Crawford hasn't been wasted, and here's why 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z To succeed, Pearson needed not only to be very good at identifying undervalued assets and maximizing their value; he needed everyone else to be too slow-witted to adapt to his tactics. Valeant: Why Moneyball Failed in the Pharmaceutical Industry 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The expression "half asleep" might be an accurate description of what is going on in the brain when you are feeling slow-witted. Why do we sleep? - BBC News 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The defense said the 25-year-old Williams is slow-witted and easily manipulated. Man found guilty of murdering University of Tampa student 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “The U.S. appears slow-witted on this, and the Qataris appear quick and nimble.” Qatar, Egypt’s New Sugar Daddy 2013-04-11T08:45:00Z Berezovsky spoke to and of Russia’s top ministers and generals in patronizing tones, like a star coach brought in to dredge some talent from the members of a slow-witted third-division football team. The Oligarch in Exile 2013-03-24T17:19:00Z The tone is intentionally simplistic, funny, completely averse to the maudlin, despite the grim shadow cast over the book: the impending death of the slow-witted Mammoths' catcher Bruce Pearson from Hodgkin's disease. City Room: Big City Book Club Tonight Discusses 'Bang the Drum Slowly' 2012-06-27T17:46:25Z Jimmy was no fool even if he was slow-witted. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z The mate, however slow-witted, was smart enough in all his movements once he had made up his mind. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z "For my part, friend Pinedo, it seems to me that a man too should have a good figure," said slow-witted Se�ora de Calder�n. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Possibly; but such feats of imposture were beyond the powers of a slow-witted, inherently honest philogynist of fourteen. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z But why should I feel as if baited by these stupid, slow-witted Arabs, and their warnings and croakings? Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z He was a slow-witted, heavy man, full-blooded, unobservant; a fact had to hurt him through his comfort, through his pleasure, before he noticed it. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Before the slow-witted host, whose brains had not been rendered more active by his libations, had awoke to the meaning of his daughter's proposition, she had borne the guest with her from the room. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z A Knack of the Slow-Witted.—The slow-witted thinker generally allies himself with loquacity and ceremoniousness. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z He dropped his head back, stared at the cornice, and said with the soft malignity of a clever person dealing with the slow-witted. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Near the wall, not very far from the Duchess, who was frankly borrowing a large, masculine handkerchief, were sitting a thin, fair woman, and a big, stupid, slow-witted man. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z The farmer, knowing that the man was very slow-witted, gave him the most careful instructions as to everything that he was to do. The Orange Fairy Book 2011-06-29T02:00:31.520Z He seemed slow-witted, for he stood there several seconds, with one free hand pulling at his rough moustache of reddish-brown. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z That's not surprising, the researchers said, since people who talk fast tend to be seen as not trustworthy, while those who speak too slowly are usually perceived as slow-witted or overly pedantic. Want to Be Heard? Try Changing the Way You Talk 2011-05-20T14:10:00Z He was a man, with all the honesty and sincerity and chivalry of a race of gentlemen in his head, slow-witted as he was. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z I was much too slow-witted to give the right answer, and blundered something about being preoccupied with the pleasure of seeing her. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z She was a slow-witted, but very sensible woman, and she feared that, should she take such a course, Gaunt might fear that things were more serious than they actually were. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z But, slow-witted as he was, he was aware that women unsusceptible to temptation are apt to be equally unsusceptible to the disgrace of a fall. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z It would be an eye-opener to Cousin Andrew Brew, he crowed, to see him helping to finance the European War within a year after that slow-witted nut had had the hardihood to refuse him! The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z She is a great, slow-witted, homely, slab-sided drudge, almost twice his size. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z I have proved very slow-witted, but I am not a pachyderm, and my intelligence can be reached, you see, by sharp, stinging pain. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z His name is hovering in the sky over Wrigley Field in giant block letters, so even the slow-witted suits in the Cubs’ front office with little foresight can see it. Trash Talk: Haynesworth has won war with 'Skins 2010-08-23T21:13:00Z This made life too hard for the heavy, slow-witted creatures, and they failed to survive the change. Unexplored! But he's a Gentile and slow-witted, and he doesn't twig, and this time he asks angrily, "Then, whatever is it you want?!" Yiddish Tales The Walloon might be slow-witted, but Dalroy’s words seemed to have pierced his skin. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 A slow-witted man might have found himself in a fix. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse One of the three men, a slight, small-boned man whose round, full-fleshed face habitually wore an expression of slow-witted amiability, moved a little closer to the fire. The Return of Tharn If he fails to foresee our concentration at this point, he is thick-headed and slow-witted indeed. Aces Up Not merely for a person wanting in intelligence, or slow-witted, but for a downright fool. The Benefactress Jake irritated him to a degree, and the roar of laughter which greeted the slow-witted baker’s sally set him completely on edge. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country And do you never think, you dear, slow-witted thing, that it will be rather lovely for me to be with you? Jan and Her Job Them bloodthirsty outlaws just melted away before him, and them that was slow-witted was picked up and tossed to one side before they knowed what hit 'em. Kid Scanlan I, for one, do not consider him slow-witted. Aces Up He was ominously quiet; even the dullest of them, the slow-witted Curly, saw and wondered at the unusual calm that showed on his face and in his accents. The Heart of Thunder Mountain "Yes, miss," he returned with the obstinacy of a slow-witted man. Nobody He made the mistake of underestimating Mormon, thinking him slow-witted. Rimrock Trail The giants were almost invariably worsted in their encounters with the gods, for they were heavy and slow-witted, and had nothing but stone weapons to oppose to the Æsir’s bronze. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas The young man hesitated; but he was slow-witted and new to his duty, and the young lady had a peremptory way with her, so he touched his hat, and went back to the house. Not Like Other Girls The old Lady Rochford, who was always thinking of what had been said two speeches ago, because she was so slow-witted, raised her gouty hands in the air and opened her mouth. The Fifth Queen Crowned “I know I’m slow-witted,” said Pitt meekly, for he was in a mood to endure anything, “but I’ve asked you to have me on every day there is except the one I’m afraid to name.” Ladies-In-Waiting "I think as how you and I must carry them here in lots," drawled slow-witted Jones. The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks He was a slow-witted lout, but the veriest dullard must have perceived that the disappearance of the weapon which presumably killed his father was a serious matter for its owner. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The clumsy, slow-witted youth nodded his head and sobbed noisily, with strange animal-like grunts and gulps. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty But for the most part these slow-witted men without a quiver saw death creeping on the raft. The Return of Blue Pete The Jat is a typical son of the soil, strong and sturdy, hardworking and brave, a fine soldier and an excellent farmer, but slow-witted and grasping. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir When she saw the bafflement in my eyes, she reiterated slowly, as if aiming to get through to a slow-witted, yet cherished, interlocutor: The Capgras Shift There had been stolid, slow-witted girls among the operatives in Laconia in the grammar school, but they really desired to learn. The Girls at Mount Morris He just looked up as Tito entered, but continued his play, simply from that disposition to persistence in some irrelevant action, by which slow-witted sensual people seem to be continually counteracting their own purposes. Romola But Camp was a typical conservative, slow-witted, stubborn against the ingress of a new idea. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "I feel that way already," was Landy's quick reply; "only I'm that clumsy and slow-witted I just don't see how I'm ever going to keep up with the procession." Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot The slow-witted demon immediately flies home to find out whether he is really dead. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Yet ignorant and slow-witted as they are, inborn ability and resolution are not wanting. Impressions of South Africa With some changes, he tells about his heartless persecution, under friendly guise, of a slow-witted, unsuspecting, rich Englishman, a former associate in large business enterprises. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 They are also regarded as stupid because they seldom get any education, retain their rustic and half-aboriginal dialect, and on account of their solitary life are dull and slow-witted in company. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Perhaps now, some of the fellows who loved to tease him, and say that he was too fat and slow-witted to ever be a shining success in the Hickory Hill troop, would change their tune. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot He gave way to an unreasonable burst of passion when I did but claim justice and assert our rights; and the man must be slow-witted indeed who could believe that subdued passion is changed opinion. Erling the Bold Yet, I had need to be slow-witted indeed, not to read a long, wonderful story in what I saw then. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess One device after another has been added for the extermination of the slow-witted. By the Christmas Fire Before Timothy Turtle—who was somewhat slow-witted—before he realized what their plan was, Johnnie Green and his friend Red had slipped one noose around his head and another around his body. The Tale of Timothy Turtle That path has transformed the children of a rustic village in a slow-witted county into Utopians. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular His eyes followed the boy as he went out to stand by Jack's elbow and ply this slow-witted gentleman with quick, eager questions. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught She was not of the slow-witted, stupid-looking type of negro women. The Winning Clue The aim of his logic is represented as having been the devising of rules for the discovery of syllogistic middle terms; this system for aiding slow-witted persons became known as the pons asinorum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" I was only a slow-witted, incredulous spectator looking on with a stupid animal wonder. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army Charles Bovary, a simple and slow-witted young country doctor, makes a prudent marriage, and has the fortune to lose his tiresome and elderly wife after no long time. The Craft of Fiction Death, like Life, had been a quite incomprehensible puzzle to that slow-witted one who had no name. Then I'll Come Back to You The majority were so greyish pale, their hair such unlovely stubble, their temples so shrunken that the Subaltern pitied them in their morose dejection and slow-witted taciturnity. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" A slow-witted young animal, not suggesting any great love of work, and rather loutish in his manners. Pieces of Eight The decent, slow-witted, gently devious type of rustic could not live under her. Romance She looked as if she had been dozing, or else was naturally slow-witted. By the Light of the Soul A Novel His character Wally is a foil to the lovable, slow-witted Alvin. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s "Yes, do read to us," I echoed, for the position was a new one to me, and at best I am awkward and slow-witted where women are concerned. The Soldier of the Valley Wilson says of him, "Bibulous, slow-witted and loose of life and morals, Van Twiller proved wholly unequal to the task in hand." Greenwich Village But we reached the village safely, so I said to myself that the Huron had grown slow-witted. Montlivet One of these persons, Billy Stitts by name, was fairly unobjectionable as a human being, since he was a quaint, slow-witted, bird-like little creature, fully sixty years of age and clearly harmless. The Furnace of Gold It would not have entered his slow-witted head to protest against the accusations of his wife. The Voice of the People But I was in time to beat down his point and then—for he was slow-witted and three-parts drunk—with a trick of wrist that luckily required little strength, I disarmed him. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Like all slow-witted men, he was following up an irrelevant train of thought from his own last sentence but one. Come Rack! Come Rope! Here, you'll go back and get as slow-witted as other ploughboys. The Spinners Her slow-witted guardian had no objection to offer; and there were not wanting go-betweens to urge on Rossiter with stories of her wealth and the expanding value of her financial interests. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement There was a convincing air of good-fellowship about him, which won the honest heart of slow-witted Tom Bassett, and a half-veiled regard for his own youthful pleasures, which aroused the wrath of Eugenia. The Voice of the People In fact, the slow-witted young man went to Vienna on a false rumour—but it boots not recount his wanderings. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay But the heat made one stupid and slow-witted. The Devil's Garden He was far from being a stupid or slow-witted man. The Promise of American Life The yellow old couple were slow-witted Minorcans, part pagan, part Catholic, and wholly ignorant: their minds rarely rose above the level of their orange trees and their fish-nets. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 He grew thin and pale, silent and slow-witted. Invisible Links But the nation she despised as slow-witted and effete has met her again and again on her own boasted ground, and, brain for brain, has won. Fields of Victory Farmer Hosking was slow-witted, but as honest a man as ever stood up against hard times; and a more open and hospitable race than the people on that coast I never wish to meet. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Whether with reason or not, he had the reputation for being slow-witted, in spite of the fact that he was a brilliant chess-player. The Lamp in the Desert I am an uneducated slow-witted man, while the Lord has vouchsafed you judgment and wisdom. The Bishop and Other Stories She was, in addition, shy and slow-witted to the verge of stupidity. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe The idea of allocating some of our incurable golfers to this purpose does not appear to have suggested itself to our slow-witted authorities. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917. The girl had played her part, and a second time he had accepted the role of a slow-witted fool. The Alaskan The officer was a general, old and kindly looking, and, by the grace of Heaven, as slow-witted as he was kind. With the Allies "We're certainly the slow-witted sex," she answered, piling the finished bags one on top of the other on the table. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace He was a stolid, slow-witted fellow, but, as we say, with a heart of gold. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man He came out of a thicket and found himself face to face with the slow-witted bird. White Fang I am a slow-witted man," said John, "and, in sooth, when I try to think about such matters it casts a gloom upon me. The White Company I was afraid that when my general abandoned me the others might not prove so slow-witted or so kind. With the Allies Strange things were going through the mind of the slow-witted Jim. Polly of the Circus He asked questions as rapidly as the slow-witted anthropoid could answer them. Return of Tarzan This mobility is of unique value: it is taking advantage of a somewhat slow-witted enemy with interest. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War He had waited as a matter of routine duty until the wages were paid, but he was a taciturn, slow-witted man, and he had not foreseen this sudden call upon his oratorical powers. The Captain of the Polestar He was not rich himself, nor distinguished, nor clever; at school he had passed for a dull, slow-witted boy, sleepy, and greedy, and had borne the nickname 'driveller.' The Torrents of Spring It was only Mrs. Butters, the housekeeper, or, to be precise, the head and shoulders of that estimable but slow-witted female, heavily swathed in a couple of grey shawls. Till the Clock Stops It was seldom that the slow-witted Thomas was blessed with one of these flights of fancy. The Old Gray Homestead Davie Paine, sometimes so slow-witted, seemed now to grasp the situation with extraordinary quickness. The Mutineers He was a great bluff man, with wheat-colored hair, and was somewhat slow-witted. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages His age was somewhere between twenty and thirty; but his face was still the face of an overgrown and rather slow-witted child. Helen of the Old House "Well, admitting it, I then say what on earth should she and Master be up here for, at such a time?" asked the slow-witted butler. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story It is by no accident that the British—whom foreigners delight to call stodgy and slow-witted,—have produced more high-class poetry than any other nation in the history of the world. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Perhaps he would offer them to that slow-witted lawyer, but just then the door of the manager's office opened and the deputy-director entered the room with a loud laugh. The Trial Mary, knowing now that the Scotchman was not the slow-witted blunderer he had appeared on board ship, looked at him with sudden suspicion. The Nest Builder "Yea, I be not so dull as some Normans, though I be counted but a slow-witted Saxon," returned Bernulf, with complacency. A Boy's Ride You kept early hours with your 'uncle Sam,' as you call Colonel Gundry, a slow-witted man, but most amusing when he likes, as slow-witted men very often are. Erema — My Father's Sin In particular the plight of one poor boy, older than the rest, called Smike, a drudge whom starvation and ill-treatment had rendered dull and slow-witted, aroused all Nicholas's pity. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction "What do you suspect?" asked the Governor, who was a slow-witted man, broken down with fevers and port wine. The Green Flag But why should I feel as if baited by these stupid, slow-witted Arabs and their warnings and croakings? How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Looking back on the problem, I accuse myself of being rather slow-witted. The Gates of Chance He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer. Love-at-Arms For by neither threatening nor wheedling could Rosenblatt extract from her what was entrusted to her care, as he could from the slow-witted Paulina. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Some believed him lazy; others believed him shiftless; others thought him an Indian in mind and habits; and there were many who called him slow-witted. The Man of the Forest The farmer, knowing that the man was very slow-witted, gave him most careful instructions as to everything that he was to do. The Orange Fairy Book The Philadelphian, who was a slow-spoken, slow-witted, though shrewd, man, was perplexed at first "I see," he said, coloring, and looking confusedly at me. The Rise of David Levinsky And she was, secretly, proud that the slow-witted young giant should have displayed his interest in her welfare so plainly. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret How the slow-witted Paulina had managed so clever a transaction no one quite understood, but every one knew that in the deal Rosenblatt, financial agent to the foreign colony, had lent his shrewd assistance. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Pete Wilson, the slow-witted and very taciturn, and Billy Williams, the wavering pessimist, were of ordinary height and appearance. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up He was as slow-witted and stupid as in his peasant days in the south of France. When God Laughs: and other stories Or, what would have been almost worse, a slow-witted idiot who would have stopped to ask questions before doing anything. A Damsel in Distress He was ready enough to sacrifice his wife if by so doing money might be gained, but he felt somehow hurt in his vanity at the idea of this ugly, slow-witted Northerner usurping his place. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Call that to mind the next time you are tempted to cry out that you have no patience with your slow-witted servant. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) But speech is a grave matter for women, naturally slow-witted and feeble-minded as they are. The ninth vibration and other stories Being forced to say something, and being by nature slow-witted and sluggish of invention, Sir Rowland was compelled, to his unspeakable chagrin, to fall back upon the truth. Mistress Wilding As a nation, you might sometimes give us the impression of being phlegmatic and slow-witted. Penelope's Irish Experiences |
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