Up the street marched the four new boys, still a little slowly, until Ford broke out into a sudden word of encouragement, "Look here, boys, we're a set of wooden-heads!

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.

" "But I tell you it ain't Baldy Barbee and the Anvil, you wooden-headed floop.

What injury (short of the theatres) did not Boydell's "Shakespeare Gallery" do me with Shakespeare?to have Opie's Shakespeare, Northcote's Shakespeare, light-headed Fuseli's Shakespeare, heavy-headed Romney's Shakespeare, wooden-headed West's Shakespeare (though he did the best in "Lear"), deaf-headed Reynolds's Shakespeare, instead of my, and everybody's Shakespeare.

Either the large wooden-headed doll came noisily down from the high-backed chair, where she had been placed as the Maid of Saragossa, or a suspicious smell of burning arose, when Joan of Arc really did take fire from the candle on her imaginary funeral-pile.

Blount says: "It would be simply wooden-headed to affirm that they ever expected to succeed in a war with us."

It may have been wooden-headed for the Filipinos to expect this, but expect it they certainly did.