Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
So saying, she seated me on my sofa, and placing a table with the books before me, 'Look, continued she, 'I have made them for you myself, and covered them with these pretty red and green papers. Now read attentively, and do not let your thoughts wander; and be very careful not to dogs-ear the leaves: that always looks like a dunce.
Sometimes he felt so utterly sad and discouraged, that it seemed to him he never could try again; yet through it all he did try heartily. His arithmetic was the hardest. He was still in the dunce class, so the boys called it, because it was made up of the drones from several classes, and was constantly being put back to addition. It was a sharp winter's morning.
Taking example, however, from the Swede and the Prussian, Voorhees walked away, using no measures to obey. As for myself, thoroughly disgusted with this man, a vulgar rogue, I walked aft to the other lieutenant, who was only a gentleman-like dunce. Mr.
When the spelling class was up, Squeers says to Smike, the big, helpless dunce, 'Spell window," And Smike says, 'W-i-n-d-e-r, 'All right, Squeers says, 'now go out and wash 'em, Well, I hope I got the spelling a little nearer right, but I came home and began washing my windows. That's all. J.W. said "Huh!" and that stood for understanding, and approval, and confidence.
What do you suppose the people at home would think of us? Why, I didn't expect to hear any of their sermons when I came. I as good as promised Flossy that I would frolic about with her all the time, and now the absurd little dunce acts as if she were under a wager to be on the ground every time the bell rings! I've declared off. I can tell you to an item just what I am going to hear.
Nature never made a dunce. Imbecility of mind is as rare, as deformity of the animal frame.
But though he was in these ways noble, the dunce scholar of Northiam was to the end no genius. Upon all points that a man must understand to be a gentleman, to be upright, gallant, affectionate, and dead to self, Captain Jenkin was more knowing than one among a thousand; outside of that, his mind was very largely blank.
Eivé, the dunce of our housed hold, won a Terrestrial picture-book on which she had set her fancy by tracing on a forty-inch globe, the first time she saw it, every detail of my journey from Ecasfe as she had heard me relate it; and Eunané, who had never left her Nursery, could describe beforehand any route I wished to take between the northern and southern ice-belts.
But Freeman was not content with making mountains of mole-hills, with speaking of a great historian as if he were a pretentious dunce. He stooped to write the words, "Natural kindliness, if no other feeling, might have kept back the fiercest of partisans from ignoring the work of a long-forgotten brother, and from dealing stabs in the dark at a brother's almost forgotten fame."
"And I say he can, and he shall," replied Howard; "and he shall have time to learn: he's willing, and, I'll answer for it, able to learn; and he shall not be called a dunce; and he shall have time; and he shall have justice." "Shall! shall! shall!" retorted Holloway, vociferating with a passion of a different sort from Howard's.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking