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Holla, you, sir!" and the unhappy gardener looked up from his flower-beds; "what ails you? I have a great mind to tell my father of you you grow stupider every day. I told you to put the tent under the lime-trees." "We could not manage it, sir; the boughs were in the way." "And why did you not cut the boughs, blockhead?" "I did not dare do so, sir, without master's orders," said the man doggedly.

I love your faults more than the virtues of other women. You are a thousand times better than I am. I am a great, coarse blockhead, compared to you. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings this noon; you know, Lillie, I'm hasty, and apt to be inconsiderate. I don't really know that I ought to let you go over next Sunday." "O John, you are so good!

It was but fair you should take the worth of your money; but you were too great a blockhead. You looked at the good things there, and came away empty-handed. William now raised his eyes, and as he looked straight into the face of Jem Taylor, the latter could not bear the bright and radiant holy expression lent them by the influence of truth, with which his soul was filled.

I think that must be the reason why there are more synonyms for blockhead in the German language than in any other we have the largest army. I said: "'Of course I can't see anything out of it because it's blind, you I was just on the point of adding 'fool' when I stopped myself in time. It was the military the august military. One must hold his peace before the magnificent military.

"I was so frightened," said another, "I would not have turned back for the whole world." "And you, Tarlton?" "I," said Tarlton; "had not I enough to do to take care of myself, you blockhead? Everyone for himself in this world!" "So I see," said Loveit, gravely. "Well, man! is there anything strange in that?" "Strange! why, yes; I thought you all loved me!"

"Read the placard it is all written and then you will know." "I would read it willingly, but it so happens that today I don't know how to read." "Bravo, blockhead! Then I will read it to you. "Has the play begun long?" "It is beginning now." "How much does it cost to go in?" "A dime."

The effect was to drive all he knew out of Philip's head, and he looked at the printed page vacantly. Mr. Gordon began to breathe heavily. "If you don't know why don't you say so? Do you know it or not? Did you hear all this construed last time or not? Why don't you speak? Speak, you blockhead, speak!"

As soon as the King heard this, he lifted the crown from his own head and set it upon the countryman's poll, who looked like a thief on the gallows. The news of this proclamation flew through the whole country, till at last it came to the ears of Cienzo, who said to himself, "Verily, I am a great blockhead! I had hold of Fortune by the forelock, and I let her escape out of my hand.

On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.

'Have been brought together, eh? said the dwarf as he walked the streets alone. 'My friend has stolen a march upon me. It led him to nothing, and therefore is no great matter, save in the intention. I'm glad he has lost his mistress. Ha ha! The blockhead mustn't leave the law at present.