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After studying the case, he concluded that the “Allison hunts” were not prompted by any hatred of the subject, but by the fact merely that he was big, clumsy, good-natured, slow-witted—easy to make game of—and especially by the fact that when aroused he showed a certain joyous rage in his own defense. But Irving saw no way of learning a lesson from Allison.
One circumstance only appeared strange, yet it was easily explained. Instead of standing on the pedestal, the Demeter was beside it, and even the slow-witted goldsmith inferred from this fact that the robbers had intended to steal it and placed it on the floor for that purpose, but were prevented from accomplishing their design by the interference of Hermon and the people from Tennis.
'But, said I, 'if you are indeed owner of this fair property, why should you descend to so menial an occupation? 'The Jews, the Jews, oh most astute and yet most slow-witted master! The ten tribes have been upon me, and I have been harried and wasted, bound, ravished, and despoiled.
He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer. He walked leisurely to the fire-place, and leant his elbow on the overmantel. "Your humour led you into saying some things for which I should be merciful if I had you whipped."
Our ministers should have something in their successive sermons for everybody. Something for the children, something for the slow-witted and the dull of understanding, and something specially suited for those who are of a quick apprehension; something at one time to make the people smile, at another time to make them blush, and at another time to make the water stand in their eyes.
"Now, my myrmillones," cried La Fosse in bloodthirsty jubilation, "to work before the host returns." "Po' Cap de Dieu!" growled Castelroux, "is this a time for jests, master joker?" "Jests?" I heard him retorting, as he assisted me to doff my doublet. "Do I jest? Diable! you Gascons are a slow-witted folk!
Straightforward and rather slow-witted Stanton rubbed his eyes and vowed between the first hearty laughs he had known for many a long day that he was practised upon, and that he intended to have Miss Burton indicted as a witch, and Ida as an accomplice.
In the hall that night the heroes and the Lemnian maidens who were with them were quiet. A story was told; Castor began it and Polydeuces ended it. And the story that Helen's brothers told was: The Golden Maid Epimetheus the Titan had a brother who was the wisest of all Beings Prometheus called the Foreseer. But Epimetheus himself was slow-witted and scatter-brained.
Smallbones purpled to the roots of his bristly hair. Jake irritated him to a degree, and the roar of laughter which greeted the slow-witted baker's sally set him completely on edge. "Guess I was on the other end of the rope," he retorted, trying to turn the laugh, but the baker, with grave deliberation, added to his score.
"It will fall out just as I say. They will give me very few names; they will admit me to none of their real secrets; but yet they will feign to do so." "But, what a' God's name " "Oh! man!" I cried, "you are surely slow-witted to-day. And then they will give me a false one altogether. They think that they will make me a tool to further their true plans by betraying false ones.
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