This thou art witless seeking to possess Without a following or friends the crown, A prize that followers and wealth must win.
The hungry wailings of her witless child towards evening at length aroused her from the stupor of despair into which she had fallen.
Accordingly, breakfast being over, the canoes were launched and the coasting of Itasca begun.
He also repeated what he had told me before launching the canoes at Leech Lake that the region about Lake Itasca was his hunting-ground, and that he was thoroughly acquainted with all the rivers, lakes and ponds within a hundred miles.
Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning.
Defn: One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.
He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air.
Come back to your own dwelling-place: witless and prodigal as you have been, there is not a hind in the parish but would lament over the desolate house of your fathers.
I would go myself, but the witless youth, as I see by his letter, is feared for me, and you can maybe travel with less delay.
Ye discern not, witless creatures that ye are, how much of evil this little shew of bravery serves to hide.
Who but thou, that hast suffered jealousy to blind thee, would have been sowitless as not to read such a riddle?
These witless things have wisdom enough not to remain behind and perish in The Desert.
But the dervish did it in reality, and so effectually, that after two or three strokes, they jumped up, for he laid it on under all the force of his witless revenge.
Ever has it seemed to me a witless thing to prove the multiplication table by turning a staff into a serpent, or even into two serpents.
But why like witless children stand we here Babbling our parents' fame and our own deeds?
Still It is the man who knoweth that excels The witless man alike in toils and counsels.
Tis quite enough that for thy sake so many face to face Aver that I, a witless Moor, a witless lover chase.
This worthy man conducted his business as he dressed himself, sloppily; a dear kind soul, quite witless and quite h-less.
We might then shut up our Marlowes and our Beaumonts and resume our reading of the bard, and these witless beings would confer happiness on many, and crown themselves with truly immortal bays.
Witless Hoenir was quite helpless without his aid, and did not know what to do or say.
He soon lost his wits, of which he had but few; and a witless giant is a most dreadful creature.
Witless are you mortals and dull to foresee your lot, whether of good or evil, that comes upon you.
Buttery and kitchen books were adding up their sums total; bursars were preparing for battels;* witlessmen were cramming for * Battels are the accounts of the expenses of each student.
But worst of all, it was impossible for the poor witless fellow to understand the gathering wrath of the Green Knight, and so, now and again throughout the day, he made attempts at friendly conversation.
The table, fronting you with icy stare, Strove to look witless that its legs were bare, While the black sofa with its horse-hair pall Gloomed like a bier for Comfort's funeral.
Alone return he by his witless way; If well he know it, let him prove.
To the dawn Our poop we turned, and for the witlessflight Made our oars wings, still gaining on the left.
His latest thought was this: 'Though witless things we are, my kine and I, Yet God it was who made us.
With lightning speed Their swords leaped forth; contemptuous next they cried, 'For once we spare to sweep a witless head From worthless shoulders.
As may be supposed, old Martin Goul and his poor witless wife were in a sad taking when they found that their son had been carried off by a pressgang.
Some said she had cast herself into the sea and was drowned; but others, I mind, declared they had seen her after that as wild and witless as ever.
