" "What difference?" "I should have been your husband, instead of that thick-headed giant.

"Professor Challis, the director, is exceedingly short, thick-headed (in appearance), and, like many of the English, thick-tongued.

I will swear, my lord, that the nobleman who could thus have been betrayed, must have been a thick-headed fellow, and fit for no one public office, not even for that of turnspit of his majesty's kitchen![A]

Thick-headed's the word.

Either that, or else I am most extraordinarily thick-headed, for I own that I am still as complete a greenhorn now as I was at the beginning.

It is all very well for sentimental Germans to have a thick-headed belief in themselves; deep down in an eloquent and sensitive creature like Clerambault, the vision of the Gaulalways alert in his thick woodsobserves, lets nothing escape, and is ready for a laugh at everything.

"What d'you mean?" "Look here, friend, these other boys are too thick-headed to understand Kate Cumberland, but I know her kind.

"We'll get to the house right after dawn," he was saying, "because that's the time when most men are so thick-headed with sleep that" "Not Whistling Dan Barry," said one of the men, shaking his head.

And now let us light our pipes and finish our yarns as though agitated clients and thick-headed solicitors had no existence.

Indeed, with the single exception of my thick-headed compatriot, the British dragoon, I have never met anyone who was less competent to carry out such a mission.'

" "Well," Nettings concluded with resignation, "I'm afraid one of us is rather thick-headed.

If they should be a little grain thick-headed and sort o' blind at first, as old King Belshazzar was, it may be that the sovereign State will have to give 'em an object-lessonlawfully, always lawfully, you understand.

"And as for the capable young woman: do I or do I not recollect a dark night on the German frontier when she was glad enough to call on a sleepy fellow pilgrim to help her wrestle with a particularly thick-headed customs officer?"

As midnight approached, came the thought of Hillson's taking his place, drowsy and thick-headed as he knew he must be at that hour.

He did not scruple to declare aloud that old Humphrey Babington was a thick-headed fool; nor did Humphrey Babington, who, with his ten or twelve thousand a-year, was considerably involved, scruple to say that he hated such cheese-paring ways.

What was to be expected from an ordinary jury such as Cambridgeshire would supply but prejudice, thick-headed stupidity, or at the best a strict obedience to the dictum of a judge.

But the Babingtons, one and all, knew this, and had no objection to be accounted thick-headed as long as they were acknowledged to be prosperous, happy, and comfortable.

But now if she was going to find Hilary as light-headed and cloying as Adolphe was thick-headed and sour, or if she must see Hilary go soft on the slim Mobile girlwhom Adolphe was already so torpidly enamored of"H-m-m-m!" Two young men who had tied their horses behind the hotel crossed the white court toward the garden.

" "Am I so thick-headed?"

The porter was a pretty thick-headed darky, but he was lion-hearted; and his idea was to lay hold of a burglar wherever he could find him.

Where, for instance, is there a man under suspicion of some kind or other, were it even the most thick-headed moujik, who does not know that the magistrate will commence by putting all sorts of out-of-the-way questions to take him off the scent (if I may be allowed to use your happy simile), and that then he suddenly gives him one between the eyes?

But, if you remember, when you had finished telling me about it, you added that I was not to take the story in earnest, for that you were not really in love with a country girl, but were only jesting; and I was dull and thick-headed enough to believe you.

" "Or thick-headed," added the exasperated Mr. Turnbull.

Then you must be very thick-headed.

So I'm going to pretend I'm an Englishmanof the worthy, thick-headed, bulldog breed.