He said that the state was so poor, A bankrupt it soon would be found, I told him to state it no more His noddle I feared was unsound.
Sometimes his noddle so dizzy is grown, That he cannot exact his path find; Yet Isaac is nettled whenever tis known, Slaves to old Bacchus go blind.
Yet though He ran as if the devil split him, This blackguard rascal's broomstick hit him: Upon his wooden noddle falling, It broke his skull, and laid him sprawling.
The thund'rer then his noddle shakes, And Greece, like city custard, quakes.
His wrath to see his blood run down Made him let fly a thumping stone, Which hit his pate, and off did pass As if his noddle had been brass.
They tell me I have spunk enough, But he can plot as well as cuff, Which makes the Trojans more afraid Of his queer noddle than his blade.
Ponocrates, after he had a while rubbed hisnoddle and shaken his ears, asked how one might avoid dog-sleep.
True, disputes with Tories sometimes led to blows, and mayhap some Albany watchman's Dutch noddle needed vinegar to soothe the flamms drummed upon it by a stout stick or ramrod resembling mine.
Pop into an inn, or hide your shame-faced noddle in some barn or shed.
This noddle must have some crack in it, Emmy, to let the thoughts fly out of it as fast as they fly in.
It is in some street, and the street has got a name; but what that name is has passed from my noddle these six hours, and the letters, as in duty bound, I put into the fire.
Oh, how this football noddle would please, If it were but well tossed on S.
In that noddle of yours is everything necessary for development, for the maintaining of dignity, for the achieving of happiness, and you are absolute lord over the noddle, will you but exercise the powers of lordship.
Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!
At the commencement of the combat the great Figg dealt a blow so tremendous at his opponent, that had it encountered the other's honest head, that comely noddle would have been shorn off as clean as the carving-knife chops the carrot.
Look up, man, and see us in the face as an honest man should, instead of beating thy noddle charged against us thus, like a battering-ram.
The worthy clothier drew back his head behind the arras, like a frightened tortoise retracting its noddle within the shelter of its shell; and Henry proceeded to explain to Wolsey, in French, what had passed between himself and Francis.
Now what can have got into that precious noddle of thine, my dear brother Toby?
He telled to I of a feller called Robinson, and seemed to have got it in his furrin noddle that 'twas the same name as Trevanion, or fust cousin to 't.
Twenty she is, and sixteen be I, but I've a deal more wisdom in my noddle than she, arter all.
