~The Convert.~ I wrote lots of trash about Cupid, And the telling bewitchment of curls, And that men were excessively stupid To be madly devoted to girls.

She sent him off with sharpen'd dart, To steal for her a certain heart; But, oh, the mishap stupid!

Well you are stupid!

After this the breach between the Russian Government and the Polish people began to widen, partly owing to stupid and clumsy actions on the side of Russia, partly to the incurable lack of political common-sense on the side of the upper classes in Poland, partly to the fact that the country could never be anything but restless and unsatisfied while it remained divided.

The former policy was really as stupid, though less cruel, than the latter.

If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the trick may easily succeed.

This lower class of people, my beloved herself observed, were for ever aiming at the stupid wonderful, and for making even common incidents matter of surprise.

This hath been the devil's practice, and his infernal ministers in all ages; not as our Saviour by a few silly fishermen, to confound the wisdom of the world, to save publicans and sinners, but to make advantage of their ignorance, to convert them and their associates; and that they may better effect what they intend, they begin, as I say, with poor, stupid, illiterate persons.

What are most of our papists, but stupid, ignorant and blind bayards?

Nanahboozhoo was now so stupid with sleep that he only aroused himself a little, not enough to enable him to detect the lurking enemy.

take that, you great stupid watcher, for so disturbing me with your false reports!' "Then Nanahboozhoo fell asleep again.

"And this is all stupid personal stuffbut mine own!" There was an unconscious sigh of weariness as he took up the thumbed leather volumes.

"I must be getting old and stupid," she thought, when she had waited a time for them.

" "Please don't be stupid," said my wife.

How stupid of me not to have thought of it!" exclaimed Peggy.

" "Regina Mortlake!" "Phew!" whistled the boy, "a new conquest for the irresistible Fanning, eh?" "Don't be stupid," reproved Peggy, severely, "I've been thinking it over

" "And my poor brother," snapped out Peggy, indignantly, "if it hadn't been for your stupid idea of racing this wouldn't have happened.

I confess I'm stupid, but" "Oh, how dense you boys are," exclaimed Regina, with an impatient stamp of the foot, "don't you see that this bill will come pretty close to proving Roy Prescott a thief, if we want to use it that way?

Jimmy was one of those masterful stupid boys who excel at games and physical contests, and triumph over intellectual problems by sheer braggart ignorance.

Jimmy was strong and stupid, but not ill-natured, and, recalling George's illness, it occurred to him that it would be a decent thing to go and tell him he was right.

Why, how stupid I am!

"Oh, you stupid men!

" I parted from him affectionately, wondering if my path in life would ever cross the honest, stupid old fellow's again, and heartily hoping that his fortune would soon take him out of the rogue's nest in which he had been dwelling.

One may urge, too, that in opposition to a ratiocination of this sort, conjecture is no better than a divination, and that it would be a sign of a very stupid framer of laws not to be able to provide for everything which he wished to. LI.

What a lot of trouble I've had already with the other peasants on account of this stupid change in the mode of taxation!