There is a haggard flitting through the night, And stupid wings are writhing through the wind, And then, afar, a screeching of dark fright, Like cries of a frail conscience that has sinned.
There has been a controversy as to whether Gray's unproductiveness is partly to be ascribed to his confinement to a narrow and, it seems, to a specially stupid academical circle at Cambridge.
Brock gave an embarrassed laugh and mentioned something audibly about a "stupid ass.
Pon my soul, Brock, it was ratherstupid of me," he confessed sheepishly.
Don't play the generous prince and spoil the boys--mind you don't take any stupid notions into your head of being a sort of Providence to them.
Here I was feeling stupid and a little lonely; I looked at the Big Front Door, and presently it opened and you came out and straight over here, to make me cheerful again.
Uncle William, who was there at the time, said that probably the man was too stupid to enjoy his fortune after he made it, and he pretended to be willing to go over and inquire at the door, if Louise would go with him.
It is very stupid of Joanna," said Carl as he rolled up the rug and the clothes-pins and marched over to apologize to Mrs. Ford for their share of the mischief.
It is still further applicable to the long chain of outrageous wrongs which have been inflicted upon the innocent at the instigation of a stupid and savage fanaticism.
You are most certainly my prisoner, and cannot warn the police, and, could you, it would avail thosestupid police nothing.
Every bit of material had to be smuggled into the lodge hall, but we did it without the stupid police suspecting anything was wrong.
If we did we might find that the stupidpolice had sealed up the bottom and top of the shaft.
I presume you started out with the intention of handing me over to your stupid police.
Some stupid people played at whist; and at ten o'clock the carriages of those who returned home were announced.
It was a stupid thing that thou didst; how couldst thou, a shrewd man, do such a stupid thing!
And verily, a statue have I not become, not yet do I stand there stiff, stupid and stony, like a pillar; I love fast racing.
Verily, on soft soles doth it come to me, the dearest of thieves, and stealeth from me my thoughts: stupid do I then stand, like this academic chair.
Hath he not created the world in his own image, namely, as stupid as possible?
In my domain they become assured; all stupid shame fleeth away; they empty themselves.
Whether they be servile before Gods and divine spurnings, or before men and stupid human opinions: at ALL kinds of slaves doth it spit, this blessed selfishness!
I was stupid before--before Jack didn't come, and I thought I'd do it.
He had been just one of those stupid wanton obstacles, in themselves so unimportant, which serve to wreck fair schemes; he seemed to embody the perversity of things, and to make mean and sordid the fate that he typified.
All sorts of stupid people are quite happy," Ora reflected dolefully.
You had no balance; you kept on doing silly little things so as to hold the attention of a more stupid audience.
He has such struggles of mind about that stupid wife of his.
They had little dances, which Lillie thought ratherstupid and humdrum, because they were not en grande toilette; yet Lillie always made a great merit of putting up with her life at Springdale.
Dan'l was in the main cabin, alone; Noll in the after cabin, stupid with drink.
She hesitated and cried, "Why are we so stupid now--now when every second counts?
The mother would, a hundred times a day, Abuse the stupid maid, and to her say Go wretched lump and try some wit to gain.
But Harold and I, in our stupid masculine way, thought all her happiness sprang from possession of the long-coveted tea-service.
Really Edward's stupidinability to see the real point in anything was TOO annoying!
I am unable to think of a more silly or stupid thing in the world than a rug or a curtain, but I have lived in the house with them all my life, because, alas, the ladies cannot be happy otherwise.
This club will begin by correcting the most stupid of all our educational blunders, the assumption of the necessary immaturity of the young.
She had hold of a friend of mine ten years ago--a stupidyoung gander who might have been left to be plucked but whom I was obliged to take an interest in for family reasons.
Laura suspected her of choosing stupid ones on purpose to prove it better--to show that she could submit not only to the extraordinary but, what was much more difficult, to the usual.
It was not till afterwards that I thought this a little stupid of him.
Lyon doubted this: his genius would be too strong for him, and the only safety for the child would be in her being too stupid to analyse.
A man may be very stupid; but he has no right to be sostupid as that.
But Tom, who was listening to the clicking key, was unusually stupidthis evening.
I guess I’m kind of stupid about that wrist work,” said Tom apologetically.
She spoke defiantly; but some stupid something that she hated yet could not repress trembled her lips, robbed her tone of its banter.
These simple, stupid Marys just hand the tangle on and sleep comforted.
She took his kiss; but she held her stupid little ground.
Why then still hold to the stupid distinction between good and evil, when we must admit that evil is essential to the very existence of things, and it would be impossible for the world to be, except as it is.
I was present when the gayly dressed idolators from Cardinal Gibbons down to the stupid Shinto priest and the ill-favoured Baptist woman preacher sat together on the platform.
The world needs not critics, but teachers, and children are waiting everywhere to teach, but men, shutting the windows of their souls, try rather to mould these little ones to fit into the vacant spaces of their own stupid world.
If that stupid Trundle had taken the joke in good part, there wouldn't have been all this row.
