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But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it!" "But supposing I make you?" said St. George, rather nettled. "You can't," said the dragon, triumphantly. "I should only go into my cave and retire for a time down the hole I came up.
He was a mixture of cunning and thick-headedness, insolent or groveling as circumstances demanded. He scorned everybody else, and exploited writers who were starving. He was no fool. In spite of his reputation and the authority he had acquired, he knew in his heart of hearts that he knew nothing about music: and he recognized that Christophe knew a great deal about it.
Now why do you say such things to me, especially when when you are aspiring! Properly, I ought to punish you. But why did you say those sharp things at your trial? They probably told against you." "I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick-headedness.
Eesa not a need to pay us to vote a Republican. You save that a money, Meesa Peaslay." "You don't understand," groaned Pixley, with an inclination to weep over the foreigner's thick-headedness. "There's a chance fer a big deal here for all the boys in the precinck. Gil. Maxim's backers'll pay big fer votes enough to swing it. The best of 'em don't know where they're at, I tell you.
The national disposition is for hard-hitting, with a moral purpose to sanction it; or for a rosy, sometimes a larmoyant, geniality, not unmanly in its verging upon tenderness, and with a singular attraction for thick-headedness, to decorate it with asses' ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes. But the Comic is a different spirit.
Your thick-headedness exasperates me to the last degree." "But how can such rascalities take place in Paris, in our very midst, without " "Parbleu!" interrupted the fat man, "you are young, my friend! Are you innocent enough to suppose that crimes, forty times worse than this, don't occur every day? You think the horrors of the police-court are the only ones. Pooh!
But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it!" "But supposing I make you?" said St. George, rather nettled. "You can't," said the dragon, triumphantly. "I should only go into my cave and retire for a time down the hole I came up.
I said to the proprietors, 'You are too advanced, you go ahead too fast: you ought to get a few results; the provinces like results. However, I have made a hundred 'Globes, and I must say, considering the thick-headedness of these clodhoppers, it is a miracle.
It is as if he were to put the Coercion Act in force against anyone found shedding tears over the sufferings of any mother except his mother. In fact it is the sort of domineering thick-headedness that never fails to produce disloyalty. The national idea, then, is the foundation of the "case for Home Rule."
Caldigate had crushed the clergyman by the violence of his language, having been excited to anger chiefly by the thick-headedness of the man in not having understood the rebuke intended to be conveyed by his earlier and gentler words, even when leaving the man, with a full conviction that the man was crushed, the old Squire was aware that he, the stone, was being gradually hollowed.
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