" Characteristics of four disciples:Tsz-káu was simple-minded; Tsang Si, a dullard; Tsz-chang, full of airs; Tsz-lu, rough.

Fierce eyed and scant of breath, Beltane redoubled his blows, striving to beat his mocker to the earth, whereat he but laughed again, saying: "Look to thy long legs, dullard!"

"Art less of a dullard than I thought thee," said the stranger, taking back his cap, "though, mark me boy, 'tis another matter to ride against a man fully armed and equipped, lance to lance and shield to shield, than to charge a harmless, ancient leathern cap.

Still, art less of a dullard than I thought thee.

These glandular preponderances are at the basis of personality, creating genius and dullard, weakling and giant, Cavalier and Puritan.

Each dullard who would share my fame, each rival self-deceiver, Reminds me that at times the mat seems golden to its weaver.

To show the spirit and the metrical form of the play we give a fragment of the boy's description of the dullard Hodge trying to light a fire on the hearth from the cat's eyes, and another fragment of the old drinking song at the beginning of the second act.

An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.

Now, unfortunately, if we want to take a serious view of any question, we have first of all to consider whether it will not give offence in some way or other to the dullard, who generally shows alarm and resentment at the merest sign of intelligence; and it may easily happen that the head which contains the intelligent view has to be pitted against the noodle which is empty of everything but narrowness and stupidity.

[Footnote 55: Dullard.

Any goose sees 'glory' In their 'snowy scalps.' Leave such signs and wonders For the dullard brain, As aesthetic brandy, Opium and cayenne.

" "Ay, to dullards!"

The thought of him was like a touch of fire to Paul Colbert, so burning was the contempt which he felt for this conceited dullard whose blundering had nearly been his own death.

It would be discounting ordinary intelligence to say that I sought with unwearying assiduity to figure my way into the stern father's good-will; that never did dullard apply himself to mathematics more patiently than I; that never did faithfulness achieve such meagre reward.

By the adding of ard: as, drunk, drunkard; dull, dullard.

Dullard, not to have thought of it at once!

Well, I prove it in this manner: Mr. Dullard fell in love (I do n't tell where all this happened, Or the time, for of the Dullards Every age and time give samples)

As for you, Hugo Gottfried, you were in love with your success, your future, and, most of all, with your confident, insolently dullard self.

" "How long is it expected that an ordinary dullard would require to master Blackstone?" "Some students do it in four months.

They deal a few heavy blows, scatter things, pick up a few glittering pebbles, and" "Leave to dullards the riches of the mines they never would have found," broke in Bart.

The man who trusts to the inspiration of genius, or his capacity to get advantage by ingenious management in court, will find himself passed by a patient dullard.

More and more he sank into mere drifting, and he whose pride had been really to know, now trusted to luck like any dullard with a head unfit for studying.

not that attracteth the pilgrim Transalpine, Brings him a dullard and dunce hither to pry and to stare?

"O lady, you who are so good and pitiful, let my mother get back her true Peregrinea straight-limbed, comely dullard, such as would be welcome to her.

On the contrary, he dominated his fellows as absolutely as if he had been a dullard and a dunce.