Sixty seconds later, the fatuous Rattlesnake still silently staring, Miss Barndollar broke a bread-plate on his head and went her way.
That night, too, Vona Harnden kept vigil, her door locked against her mother, whose fatuous commonplaces of commiseration were like files against the raw surface of the girl's agony.
Oho, rich wine that I filched from a fatuous friar jig-jogging within the green!
As a matter of actuality, in spite of his dominating force, the capacity for leadership which radiated from him, there was a very naive, fatuous quality to this strange ruler.
But, we were speedily to learn that he was not as fatuous as he at first seemed.
But I recall that it occurred to me also that I might be displaying many of the fatuous qualities I was crediting to Tako, by thinking such thoughts!
The weak-minded chattel and fatuous mother should be promptly chloroformed without benefit of clergy.
If his economic views were fatuous while he was among us they are folly forevermore.
The generals engaged in planning the campaigns and fighting the battles of the war, and their commander-in-chief the President, could hardly fail to find their task an uphill one when ideas so naïve and fatuousas these prevailed.
With a fatuous complacency, thoroughly typical, he told himself that she feared and respected him--was actually falling in love with him all over again.
But with a lover's fatuous absorption in his own affairs Pierce resumed: "I've been thinking lately how I came to this country looking for Life, the big adventure.
The epithet in itself meant nothing--it was in fact a fatuous and feeble term of abuse as compared to the opprobrious titles which he and Jerry were in the habit of exchanging--it was that abominable adjective which hurt.
If jackals were able to reason, doubtless they would justify their existence and prove their superiority to the common herd by some suchfatuous argument.
The mere touch of your hand is a delight to me, Althea," he murmured, like the fatuous idiot he was making of himself.
I leaned against the lintel of the door and met his angry look with a fatuous smile.
False values and fatuous words: these are the worst monsters for mortals--long slumbereth and waiteth the fate that is in them.
He whom they call Saviour put them in fetters:-- In fetters of false values and fatuous words!
And at last she drifted into it so naturally that it seemed impossible that fatuous man could have the most primitive suspicion of her premeditation.
Of what importance was an indiscretion of an old gentleman whose fatuous vanity and consequent blunders everybody was familiar with?
He had never objected to Mabel's admirers hitherto, had, indeed, been rather proud of their existence in a fatuous way and derived from their numbers a showman's satisfaction.
One after another of them blinked at her in the autumnal sunshine with a fatuous complacency that made her long to ring all the bells in the street.
He was shabbily dressed, his own features were wizened, almost simian, and by his friendly and fatuous smile Janet recognized one of the harmless obsessed in which Hampton abounded.
When the popular proprietor of the tin shop came sauntering along the sidewalk with nose uptilted, waving genial greetings to the various groups on the steps, Chris Auermann's expression would suddenly change to one of fatuous playfulness.
But like many weak men, the Honourable Adam had a stubborn streak, and a fatuous idea that opposition and indignation were signs of strength.
Like Tarquin, however, he had been deposed--one of those fatuous acts which the wisest will commit.
He had surpassed himself in futility, in fatuous lack of enterprise.
The excuses invented by the conspiring women for quitting and entering the dining-room, their fatuousair of innocent simplicity, disgusted Edwin.
He wanted, by the simple force of desire, to seclude and shelter the old man, to protect the old man not only from the insults of stupid and crass bullies, but from the old man himself, from his own fatuous senility.
Every impatient reassurance offered by Darius for years past suddenly seemed fatuous and perverse.
She was one of the small ones of the earth; she had not been born to honours; she knew the world too well to nourish fatuous illusions on the article of her own place in it.
Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have been a better man if he had spent less of his life there.
But, so long as you were leading that fatuous life and dreaming those foolish dreams, I knew we could never be happy.
She saw that his rage was not dangerous, that she was forcing him into a position where fear of her revenging herself by disgracing him would overcome anger at the collapse of his fatuous dreams of wealth.
Nor does the discovery that the mind is simply the brain, is simply a part of the body, subject to the body's laws, seem materially to have lessened this fatuous delusion.
The house, the surroundings, where she had lived luxuriously, dreaming her foolish and fatuous dreams, was not the place for such a struggle as was now upon her.
His mixture of self-respect, mysterious self-importance, and fatuous youthfulness fascinated him.
It was only after two long hours of fatuousgossip and long-winded lamentations about the wickedness of man, the lack of honesty among the people entrusted with the administration of the public funds, the dangers of his poor France, etc.
He will go about everywhere exaggerating my lack of courage: what a triumph for the Valenod, and for all the fatuous hypocrites who rule in Verrieres!
Inflamed by wine, she now begins to sing The songs of Wu to please the fatuous king; And in the dance of Tsu she subtly blends All rhythmic movements to her sensuous ends.
For the Emperor, still unheeding Starving homes and lands untilled, On his fatuous course proceeding, Swears his camps shall be refilled.
Unless Hiram had been warned, he was still lulled in his fatuousdream of civilization.
I left San Sebastian without it; and will it be credited that when it was forwarded to me a week later at Madrid it proved the most fatuous missive imaginable, wholly concerning the writer's own affairs and none of mine?
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