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Oh, sit where you were, Griggs, don't drag in that asinine clownishness of yours. Or, better still, come up with me and see the business end of the thing the tank and all that." "The stuff isn't inflammable, is it? We're smoking, you know." "An inflammable fire-extinguishing liquid!" cried Hawkins. "Why, can't you understand that bah!" He laid a course to the upper regions and I followed.
Harker to me, instantly turning them back again, "What an asinine question!" "I don't see that at all, Mr. Renfield," said Mrs. Harker, at once championing me. He replied to her with as much courtesy and respect as he had shown contempt to me, "You will, of course, understand, Mrs.
Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance, to kick with hoofs; it runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit; it runs to a bodiless pretension, to unnatural refining and elevation, which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.
The handsomest are clipped with ingenious coquetry so as to make around the legs patterns which make them look as if they were wearing open-worked stockings. When they are white, the end of the tail and the mane are dyed with henna. Of course this is only in the case of thorough-bred animals, of the aristocracy of the asinine race, and is not indulged in with the common herd.
The discriminating child seemed a little monster in my eyes, who ought to have been sent out of the way at once of all companions capable of abandon and enjoyment; and, as to the "father" she quoted from, I could imagine him as the embodiment of asinine wisdom, so to speak the quintessence of the practical, which so often, I observe, inclines its devotees to idiocy!
I've neither the mood nor the patience to teach you manners." His hand went out to take another cigarette from a silver box at his side. "No smoking," repeated Hipps in a level voice. "Don't be asinine, my good fool." His extended hand trembled, yearning to knot itself into a fist.
Why, you idiot, can't you see what you've done? If you don't take that asinine grin off your ugly face, I'll knock it off!" he burst out, his hard-held patience momentarily fraying. Then, taking new hold on his self-control, Kirby began again to talk. As if addressing a defective child, which, as a matter of fact, he was doing, he expounded the hideous situation.
After all, there are so many mistakes made by other people that affect nobody but themselves that Don Quixote might tire of tilting at them. The more asinine the speaker the louder is his bray, and the more surely do we encounter him in social and domestic haunts. To dispute with him is to strengthen the stakes, and twist harder the cords of his belief in himself.
For, moreover, of the works on secret sciences, in which the secrets and marvels of Nature are explored, they have little except fragments here and there, which scarcely suffice to excite the very wisest to study and experiment and to inquire by themselves after those things which are lacking to the dignity of wisdom; while the crowd of students are not moved to any worthy undertaking, and grow so languid and asinine over these ill translations, that they lose utterly their time and study and expense.
"It's rather fine of you," remarked Miss Thornhill. "It's asinine, if it's true," the professor voiced the other side of it. "You have said yourself or at least you claim to have said " Mr. Magee reminded him, "one girl like that is worth a million suffragettes." "And can make just as much trouble," complained Professor Bolton.
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