I read the papers with the accounts of singing soldiers and other rubbish; they depict us as though we were a lot of hair-brained idiots instead of men fully realising our danger, who plod on because it's our duty.
They're not the hair-brained idiots that some war-correspondents depict from day to day.
But I have to confess that seeing you three space-brained idiots clinging to that raft, ready to eat a raw fish--well, that was just about the happiest moment of my life.
By the rings of Saturn, I should log you three space-brained idiots for everything in the book!
But Valentin heard a whisper that Brayne, like so many scatter-brained sceptics, was drifting to us; and that was quite a different thing.
As he glanced at the brained corpse upon the ground the iron eyes of the motionless blacksmith followed them and rested there also.
For the last four minutes Flambeau had looked down on it; had seen the brained and bleeding figure of that beautiful woman who denied the existence of tragedy.
Skipping thus lightly over a matter of such consequence, the thoughts of the hare-brained boy went a wool-gathering after more agreeable topics.
And then this lively crack-brained Scotch lawyer appears like a pantomime at the end of a tragedy.
Mannering, who had stood at first uncertain whether to advance or retreat, now resolved to enter for the moment into the whim of the scene, though internally fretting at Mac-Morlan for sending him to consult with a crack-brained humorist.
Why, wha but a crack-brained greenhorn wad hae let them keep up the siller that ye left at the Gordon Arms?
The idea of my letting myself get rattled by a crack-brained demagogue," muttered the colonel.
I believe he'd havebrained some one with it if we really had been surrounded.
Had it not been for that hare-brained antic, I might at least have travelled with him on the coach as far as Tod's Corner, and so enjoyed his companionship a few hours longer.
He had armed himself with a big stone, and sitting directly opposite Woodley and myself, would certainly have brained one or the other of us if we had made the faintest attempt to give an alarm.
It must have been some powerful cause that could have made the gallant—dauntless—almost hair-brained Tom Rain manifest so much emotion.
And Tom Rain—the gallant, dashing, almost hair-brained Tom Rain—burst into tears.
By the way, what has become of that hair-brained young dare-devil who helped us to grab them?
So these five hair-brained youngsters started off; shoving their august prisoners along at a pace which sorely tried the dignity of the latter.
In the same connection he attacks Gallic philosophy and the equality of man, the latter of which he styles an "execrable delusion of hair-brained philosophy.
She cooks better'n any space-brained woman and she never opens her mouth to give me any sass!
There's bound to be mischief where that hair-brained four-flusher gets a crowd to listen to him.
He who called my boy a coward, an ignoble coward, because he would not join some crack-brained plan against the valley which sheltered his beloved one!
But the magistrates of the neighbourhood would have nothing to say to her, declaring that she was a crack-brained woman, and a wicked, and even a foreign one.
True hebrained that officer with a coil of barbed wire on the end of a pick helve, even as the bullet entered his heart; but he was a great loss to us.
The machine-gunner who had enfiladed them passed in his checks, fighting to the end, brained with the butt of a rifle.
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of Atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
Temper your strength with mercy; do not use the sword of justice like one of vengeance, for the day may come when it shall be broken in your hands, and you yourselves brained by the hilt of the weapon you have so wickedly wielded.
His theory was that the Winnebagos were not disposed to attack any party of whites in mere wantonness, the act of the Wolf being the whim of a single gnarly-brained warrior.
I rather think that Lamar was the biggest brainedof all the men I have met in Washington.
As for that meddling Englishman, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and his crack-brained followers, they must be effectually swept out of the way first of all.
A woman cannot have a handsomer cloud than a hair-brained husband: I will be your coz, he shall be my cuckold.
She did so pout and spit, that my hot-brained gallant could not forbear but ask the cause.
Some of the children fell and clasped the feet of Tarra, begging him to save them, but the young savage brained them without mercy.
He who escaped was hidden behind some bushes, and he saw his comrades brained one after another; then he saw the fierce savages cut their bodies in pieces, and carry them away in baskets to be eaten.
Rauparaha called out to spare them; but Rangihaeata, mad at the loss of a wife he loved, brained them with his tomahawk one after another, while the young men hunted the labourers through the trees and slew such as they overtook.
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