Besides this patriot, there were a few horse-thieves and hog duffers on the prairies, but these, when identified, were either stretched under a tree or sent to Texas.
And even the old duffers among us seem to don an infectious vitality as we greet our grey-haired friends by rope and doorway.
I know moneyed men, and I daresay you know others, who are duffers outside their special lines.
A couple ofduffers hired me to come here, an' then skipped without payin'.
There was a couple of duffers hangin' round the other depot waitin' for the train, an' I wouldn't wonder if they was the ones.
If we are not quick-witted, it does not follow we have no wits, and if we only use them carefully, we shall be no greater duffers than some of our sharp fellows.
The Cambridge duffers caught me about half-way up, trying to look as if they weren't fagged.
The duffers in the buffet didn't even know what a dough-nut was!
Those duffers will never be able to get up all that Greek in the time," I said to myself, "and not one of them knows an atom of mechanics.
The only possible flaw in it is that there might be some gentleman present who's dealt with cattle-duffers in the past.
The idea had been adopted and developed by the Australian cattle-duffers to meet the exigencies of the country they worked in.
Here they brought him more "duffers and dope," with the addition of a bowl of soup.
An army crammer named Captain Vigours wanted someone energetic for his mathematical duffers and to teach geometrical drawing and what he was pleased to call "Sandhurst Science.
Next day he wrote a note, and two mornings later he started for his mathematical duffers an hour before it was absolutely necessary, and instead of going directly to Vigours', went over the bridge to Battersea Park.
The mayor does the act, and after it's over we poor duffers who haven't particularly distinguished ourselves will give a parade and drill.
I didn't try; but when I started in without bein' mixed up with a crowd of duffers like you, I soon put the thing through.
You Eastern duffers know as much about writing love letters as a Kansas grasshopper does about tugboats.
Now break the twelve all tied together:' devil a bit could the duffers break it then.
Albert, there are plenty of dunderheads and duffers like me in the country who are good for nothing better than cannonfodder.
But the duffers are in a great grim majority; and the mischief that French causes among us is mainly manifest, not (I would say) by weaker brethren hating the stronger, but by weak ones hating the less weak.
I do but say it is characteristic of all who are duffers at speaking a foreign tongue.
We shall get rid of these canting duffers of the party and begin afresh.
It is much easier to persuade the public that the Government are duffers than that we are conjurers.
They had to come back and own that they were beat, which put Goring in a rage and made the inspector, Sir Ferdinand Morringer, blow them all up for a lot of duffers and old women.
Blessed if I ever saw such a lot of duffers in my life as there are on this side.
I shall collar this place, not because I'm an Englishman and Haffigan and Co are Irishmen, but because they're duffers and I know my way about.
Aberdeen; Why did e'er we buy a set If we must be duffers yet!
Are the bounds eternal set To retain us duffers yet?
Has it ever struck you how inept theduffers are who taboo the weather as a subject of conversation?
Yet duffers taboo it as a subject of conversation.
For that matter it's always the duffers who try the hardest.
I admit they pull it off, but then things are arranged so that the duffers can pull them off--have to be, I suppose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
