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"What are you quacking about?" and so on. The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers. "You dunderheaded little jay," she screamed, "Why don't you do as I tell you?" Peter felt that she was calling him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly: "So are you!" Then rather curiously they both snapped out the same remark: "Shut up!" "Shut up!"
Poor old fellow, he was too much crest-fallen thoroughly to enjoy even the gladness of his little children; and his wife made no secret of her previous conviction that he was too dunderheaded not to run into some coil, when she was not there to look after him. The alderman was more merciful.
What do you think of that?" Plank's phlegmatic features flushed. "I'm more obliged to you than I can say," he began, but Mortimer silenced him with a gesture: "Don't interrupt. I'm going to put you through The Patroons Club by April. That's thirty yards through the centre; d'ye see, you dunderheaded Dutchman? It's solid gain, and it's our ball.
Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. SIR THOMAS BROWNE: Pseudodoxia Epidemica. That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice. Mr.
Tibbets, seizing the hand and pressing it to the heart he had thus defended from the suspicion of being pumice, "yes, that I should have trusted that dunderheaded, rascally curmudgeon Peck; that I should have let him call it 'The Capitalist, despite all my convictions, when the Anti " "Pshaw!" interrupted my father, drawing away his hand.
'What are you quacking about? and so on. The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers. 'You dunderheaded little jay, she screamed, 'why don't you do as I tell you? Peter felt that she was calling him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly: 'So are you! Then rather curiously they both snapped out the same remark: 'Shut up! 'Shut up!
"Why, of course," he said to himself, with a candid and happy self-contempt, "that's his girl you dunderheaded fool what are you botherin' about?" He took a delight which he could not express in listening to the conversation of these friends and neighbors.
The dunderheaded Spanish commanders made their extermination much more easy for the highly trained British seamen of all grades, none of whom had any reason to hide their heads in shame for any part they individually took in the complete ruin of the Spanish Navy.
Yet I'll wager a bushel of number one Northern winter wheat to a doughnut ring that if Ibsen had written an epilogue for The Doll's House, Nora would have come crawling back to her home and her kiddies, in the end. Wednesday the Twenty-second Lady Allie is either dunderheaded or designing.
"So Bernstorff is called into consultation, the head of an embassy that has made the German secret service the laughing-stock of the world, an ambassador that has his private papers filched by a common sneak-thief in the underground railway and is fool enough to send home the most valuable documents by a jackass of a military attaché who lets the whole lot be taken from him by a dunderheaded British customs officer at Falmouth!
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