I read that serial each month and feel like shaking that little simpleton!she is just the kind of a sentimental hair-splitting little idiot that I used to be!

You'll turn her into a senseless idiot if you persist!

The Chinese say, that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blind: (though [403]Scaliger accounts them brutes too, merum pecus,) so thou and thy sectaries are only wise, others indifferent, the rest beside themselves, mere idiots and asses.

But being so misled all their lives in superstition, and carried hoodwinked like hawks, how can they prove otherwise than blind idiots, and superstitious asses?

In two hours' time you are staggering homeward a gibbering idiot.

None, however, who are not absolute idiots are without some share of the one or the other.

he said, stepping back and regarding 'Enery with shining eyes, "Mon brave, mon beau Anglais, mon" But 'Enery's own captain arrived here and interrupted the flow of admiration, cursing the grinning and sheepish private for a this, that, and the other crazy, play-acting idiot, and winding up abruptly by shaking hands with him and saying gruffly, "Good work, though.

That disgusting pigmy of humanity, that silly idiot and false swearer shall not harm you.

We should parade before our mind's eye the inmates of the lunatic, idiot, and pauper asylums, the prisoners, the patients in hospitals, the sufferers at home, the crippled, and the congenitally blind, and that large class of more or less wealthy persons who flee to the sunnier coasts of England, or expatriate themselves for the chance of life.

Nor can any one be so blind as not to perceive thisany so stolid as not to understand itany so perverse as not to acknowledge how sacred Theology has been contaminated by those notorious idiots, and the celestial Muse treated with profanity.

He was only a dumb idiot, and half the words that were falling thick and fast from philanthropic lips about him might as well have been hailstones, for all the benefit he was deriving from them.

Don't you attempt to thank me, or I shall break down altogether; for I've been the stupidest and most wooden-headed idiot that ever disgraced a noble profession.

"I don't want to hear about it," said Oldfield, hurriedly, himself much embarrassed, and inwardly fuming over himself as a colossal idiot for entering upon such a conversation.

We find in the conversation of old people frequent mention of a class of beings well known in country parishes, now either become commonplace, like the rest of the world, or removed altogether, and shut up in poorhouses or madhousesI mean the individuals frequently called parochial idiots; but who were rather of the order of naturals.

And Marty said, "One good I can see in this particular endowment is that anybody but a selfish idiot would be glad to match four years of his life against all the money and work that Christian people have put into Cartwright College.

Karl Shapiro (A); 6Aug68; R441418. Mongolian idiot.

Nothing is more pitiable than his miserable end, deserted by all his friends, a helpless idiot in a lunatic asylum, having exhausted all his means.

"Very well," I said, lying back in my seat, "you have played your game with your usual cleverness, and I suppose I deserve what I have got for having been such a consummate idiot as to give you the opportunity you wanted.

Since the tale of the opening of life to them, once considered hopeless idiots, is scarce a generation old, we have no data, as yet, as to the character of their children or grandchildren, their adventures and vicissitudes, in short, their life history.

The magnificent idiot.

I read that serial each month and feel like shaking that little simpleton!she is just the kind of a sentimental hair-splitting little idiot that I used to be!

Zanchius reduceth such infidels to four chief sects; but I will insist and follow mine own intended method: all which with many other curious persons, monks, hermits, &c., may be ranged in this extreme, and fight under this superstitious banner, with those rude idiots, and infinite swarms of people that are seduced by them.

The enraged idiot struck out right and left, without hurting anybodythe objects of his vengeance contriving to elude him in the dark.

Now I've always believed that it isn't any fairer to judge European nobility by those specimens than it is to judge us Americans by the expatriated idiots one finds here in Europeit's like judging a bin of apples by the rotten ones.

He is half-fiend and half-idiot, and no good comes of his mouthing and muttering.