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"I'm glad of it, boy, because I don't want what the Germans call a dummkopf to help me. I see; I must volunteer my information. To begin with then, that disc of glass is " "For the speculum," said Tom eagerly; "and you're going to polish it." "Wrong. That's only for the tool. The other is for the speculum, and we are going to grind it upon the tool."
Each one of the three proposed to have a favorite dish from his province. The little German grew more fussy. He condemned the restaurant manager and got at loggerheads with the waiter. He must at least have a Mecklenburg salad as he came from Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The waiter did not know what it was and the irascible Teuton informed him bluntly that he was a Dummkopf.
The close-fist of a Peter Hildesmuller! some day I shall with a big club pound that man's dummkopf all in and out the town. Perhaps in this letter Lena will say that she is yet feeling better. So, her mamma will be glad. /Auf wiedersehen/, Herr Ballinger your feets will take cold out in the night air." "So long, Fritzy," said old man Ballinger. "You got a nice cool night for your drive."
"Gott im Himmel!" he muttered hoarsely, as Dick finished. "Diebstahl und rauberei! . . . and through me! For I have been a fool, and I have been also to blame. Look you, Herr Sydney, now can I see but too clearly that I have neglected my work, and looked but little to the fields themselves but to the diamonds and the gravel they brought with them. Numskull! dummkopf!
"Pardon me for saying that is a lie! I use the word controversially." "It is a manifest truth!" cried the other. "Who ever doubted it but a Dummkopf? I use the word with reference to this argument only." So it went on for a long time. Mallard and Elgar knew no German, so could derive neither pleasure nor profit from the high debate. "Are you as glum here as in London?"
The close-fist of a Peter Hildesmuller! some day I shall with a big club pound that man's dummkopf all in and out the town. Perhaps in this letter Lena will say that she is yet feeling better. So, her mamma will be glad. Auf wiedersehen, Herr Ballinger your feets will take cold out in the night air." "So long, Fritzy," said old man Ballinger. "You got a nice cool night for your drive."
At Miss Martha. "Dummkopf!" he shouted with extreme loudness; and then "Tausendonfer!" or something like it in German. The young man tried to draw him away. "I vill not go," he said angrily, "else I shall told her." He made a bass drum of Miss Martha's counter. "You haf shpoilt me," he cried, his blue eyes blazing behind his spectacles. "I vill tell you. You vas von meddingsome old cat!"
And as Muellerus holds that these matters 'admit of almost mathematical precision, it would seem that Benfeius is but a Dummkopf, as the Alemanni say, in their own language, when they would be pleasant among themselves.
There passed through Gudrun's mind Blake's representation of the soul of a flea. She wanted to fit it to Loerke. Blake was a clown too. But it was necessary to answer Gerald. 'Don't you think the understanding of a flea is more interesting than the understanding of a fool? she asked. 'A fool! he repeated. 'A fool, a conceited fool a Dummkopf, she replied, adding the German word.
Brietmann, you schwein-hund! . . . never have I seen such a dummkopf! . . . Secure him, I say!" "Hold!" roared the professor, "touch him not till I hear what all this is about. Besides, the man will kill you! Never have I seen a better fighter or a better fight! And fair play he shall have. And explain I saw not the beginning of all this, what has the Herr Sydney done?"
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