Monsieur Pelletan and his assistants were busy attending to the wants of their distinguished guest; down in the kitchen, the chef was cursing the stupidity of the unfortunate menials under him and striving madly to prove himself worthy the occasionthe greatest of his life!

SEE Jonas, E. B. How to conquer stupidity.

To confess the stupidity and obstinacy of my ignorance is small reparation, and would be little worth while, except for the hope that my account of the comfort and economy in living on the English lodging-house system may be a seed dropped in due season, which shall spring up sooner or later in the introduction of a similar system in America.

It would have been a noble sight, had not their eyes the while expressed such entire stupidity.

However, remark the stupidity of this fellow,I should rather say, of this brute beast.

I felt at once the stupidity of any appeal, and the instant necessity for every kind of appeal.

He denounced our stupidity till his tongue was too dry to utter the charges his half-crazed brain made against us.

Ask the ticket agent in the Lowell deepot; he's an old hand and he'll know!" Gilbert's pride was terribly wounded, but his spirits rose a little later when he found that he would only have to wait twenty minutes in the Lowell station before a slow train for Greentown would pick him up, and that he should still reach his destination before bedtime, and need never disclose his stupidity.

"I mean the teacher himself; who, stunned with the hum, and suffocated with the closeness of his school-room, has spent the whole day in controlling petulance, exciting indifference to action, striving to enlighten stupidity, and labouring to soften obstinacy."Sir

I wish there were brigands in Germanyit needs something of that sort to enliven its stupidity.

At these answers the angels were amazed, and exclaimed, Oh, the gross stupidity of the age!

And when it was noised abroad that King Helmas had the Zhar-Ptitza's feather, the Peohtes came gladly to be judged, and the neighboring kings began to submit to him their more difficult cases, and all his judgings were received with reverence, because everybody knew that King Helmas' wisdom was now infallible, and that to criticize his verdict as to anything was merely to expose your own stupidity.

They feign stupidity simply because they know very well that the conscience of the civilized world is beginning to be moved.

" "You have not forgotten my stupidity, then.

Well, hang your stupidity, don't you know we're looking at Shaw's house this very instant?

On the lips of the old I hear either stupidity or malice.

And even so one cannot help puzzling and grieving and wondering over all the dreadful waste of time and energy, all the stupidities and misunderstandings, all the unnecessary business and tiresome pleasure, all the spitefulness and malignity, all the sham rules and artificial regulations, all the hard judgments and dismal fears and ugly cruelties of the world, beginning so early and ending so late.

As a source of deepest excitement, it generated the most revolting ceremonies, bizarre customs, astounding cruelties and incomprehensible stupidities of the race.

My manner indicated his stupidity, and he resented it.

The first was a Plow-man of a very promising Aspect; his Features were steady, and his Muscles composed in so inflexible a Stupidity, that upon his first Appearance every one gave the Guinea for lost.

As I walked toward them I could not justify my stupidity in mistaking a grown woman for a school-girl of fifteen or sixteen; but it was the tam-o’-shanter, the short skirt, the youthful joy in the outdoor world that had disguised her as effectually as Rosalind to the eyes of Orlando in the forest of Arden.

If this was the reason, he met afterwards with the treatment which all deserve who patronise stupidity; for the writer, instead of acknowledging his favours, complains of injustice, robbery, and mutilation; but complains in a style so barbarous and indecent, as sufficiently confutes his own calumnies.

In the mean time (as the song says), 'Their tattles all run, as swift as the sun, Of who had won, and who was undone By their gaming and sitting up late,' When it was observed I entered into none of these topics, I was addressed by an obliging lady, who pitied my stupidity.

She preferred stupidity to common sense, when the former was allied with good form, and the latter only with plain kindliness.

" At first I pretended stupidity, and inquired, "what pantry?"