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Example sentences for "numbskull"

  • Jenks is a offensive numbskull who's wormed his way into soci'ty by lickin' all the boys 'round his side of Gingham Mountain.

  • Do you-all reckon a gradyooate of sech a sem'nary ever walks out on a cold collar, him not wise, an' performs in the numbskull fashions as this yere Mike?

  • I can't go off in peace with that devilish thing of Numbskull Nob a winking at me.

  • And they made the old captain pull down the light that he had been burning steady and true, and the Government sot up that thar newfangled thing a flashing by clockwork on Numbskull Nob.

  • By then, some numbskull appeared from the wings to make an announcement that there would be a slight delay, and ask the audience to please wait a few moments.

  • Mr. Rossi practically pranced away--off to see the numbskull and make another announcement: the soloist was unharmed; the show would go on.

  • Mister Numbskull lives here and most of the time he sleeps.

  • And thus it was that Mister Numbskull spent his days, dodging his neighbors, sidestepping the highways and obscuring himself from the very individual he wanted so much to behold--Opportunity.

  • Has it never come intil your thick numbskull that the poor fule lassie is sick wi' love for ye, ye dour-faced loon?


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