My ghostship heard of the young men's project, and encouraged them, never thinking there was one among them so stupid as to carry a gun to fight a ghost with; for how can you shoot a ghost, when it has neither flesh nor blood?

On the other hand, it is true to say that history shows no precedent for the attainment of world-wide power by a people so politically stupid as the German people are to-day.

"I'm stupid as an owl about such things.

You don't want us to think you so stupid as to be wasting your time, do you?" His imperturbable effrontery was so amusing that Lanyard laughed outright.

Lepailleur, in particular, distinguished himself by the violent raillery he levelled at this Parisian, a gentleman born, with a good berth, who was so stupid as to make himself a peasant, and fling what money he had to that rascally earth, which would assuredly swallow him and his children and his money all together, without yielding even enough wheat to keep them in bread.

There isn't any thing else so stupid as a crab.

In whatever scale of intellect he is placed, he is as lively or as stupid as the rest can be for their lives.

I have never heard that any man was so stupid as to mistake such a bill for a general act of grace, or that the confession of any crimes was procured by it, except of those which it was intended to detect; I have never been informed, that any murderer was blessed with the acuteness of the noble lord, or thought of flying to such an act as to a common shelter for villany.

I see it in your face; so tell it at once, for we are stupid as owls here to-day," cried one of the sisterhood, as a bright-eyed girl entered with some precipitation.

Is he then stupid as an owl?'

No, there is no monotony like that,no life so stupid as that of the savage, with his low wants and his narrow hopes and fears.

So I let the brown cob do what he would, determined to see how far a tropic horse's legs could keep him up; and, to my great amusement, he quietly leapt the whole, descending five or six feet into a pool of mud, which shot out over him and me, half blinding us for the moment; then slid away on his haunches downward; picked himself up; and went on as usual, solemn, patient, and seemingly stupid as any donkey.

The verdict, brutal and stupid as it is, shows the weakness and falsity of the state's charge more eloquently than anything the defense has ever said about it.

Billy, I think you're almost as stupid as I am.

Then he gets up the worst specimen of private theatricals that even a royal drawing-room ever witnessed,a performance so hopelessly stupid as to actually make the KING and his consort seriously ill.

You are not afraid?" I could only tell him, "Not yet," but I could not help adding, "Of course I am not so stupid as to suppose for a moment that you English have retreated here to amuse yourselves, or that you have dragged your artillery up the hill behind me just to exercise your horses or to give your gunners a pretty promenade.

I hope you will be able to tell me something about this sudden sickness, for Mike is as stupid as a stone post, and knows nothing at all.

" "They are willing enough to listen, and will sit looking as stupid as a school of white whales, caught in a stake trap," replied Katherine.

It reminded Rudolf of the puzzle pictures he and Ann were so fond of studying where you have to look and look before you can find the hidden people, but when once you have found them you wonder how you could have been so stupid as not to have spied them long before.

I am nearly as stupid as this simpleton.

Would I be so stupid as not to be glad of it?

You surely do not think me so stupid as to believe that! SALOME.

"They have the most wonderful brains in some ways, but in little things they are as stupid as owls.

Hence, dissimulation is innate in woman and almost as characteristic of the very stupid as of the clever.

The colonists are also awakening to the truth that mere Vandalism is as stupid as it is brutal.