Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. From LearnThat.org. [Samuel Johnson]
"Who you calling a blockhead, buster?". From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
She simply called her a "blockhead," who believed, like all country-people, that a few days in bed means death. From Wordnik.com. [Germinie Lacerteux] Reference
"blockhead" has already worked a deal to testify and not be prosecuted. From Wordnik.com. [NewWest.Net All Headlines] Reference
The blockhead is a slow-worm. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
"I'm a blockhead, that's just what I am!" cried Hiram. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
"Your face, blockhead, when you come out of the room.". From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
"Dissemminating, you blockhead -- disseminating what?". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
'Thou art but a dolt and a blockhead in Art,' he said. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters] Reference
Well, then, shall I have no power to oust this blockhead?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
"You blamed blockhead, don't you know?" the boss answered. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
"Not a drunken blockhead," Forrester finished triumphantly. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
"Yer blockhead, don't yer know it's stone?" drawled another. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
"Am I responsible if the blockhead has got drunk some place?". From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
"You'll get nothing from that blockhead, sir!" cried Brockman. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
"What a blockhead I was!" he thought, quite angry with himself. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"Why for you call me blockhead when there's no blockhead to be?". From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
If you have met with a blockhead, he will be more angry than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
And only a blockhead takes a dispute between man and wife seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian Literature] Reference
Why did that confounded old blockhead forget to introduce her to you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Take your hands from your pockets, Roger; and from your head, you blockhead you!. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
I did not sometimes change my mind I should consider myself a blockhead or a fool. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
There's some diversion in a talking blockhead; and since a woman must wear chains. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICER Bob Geary is no dummy, but his partner is a blockhead. From Wordnik.com. [Keep Your Mouth Shut] Reference
The mourning dove is either the biggest blockhead in birddom or the most optimistic. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Birds In Winter] Reference
"Mum, you blockhead, mum!" said his host "There is a stir outside the door I tell you!". From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
On second thoughts, you are to stay just where you are till that blockhead brings the ladder. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
"I'm not a blockhead, that I should go to the labor of filling the skins with water," replied Stan. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
VanDeusen would simply be lifted to a position of higher authority, only to be replaced by another blockhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
Yet this man was no fool, he was not even a blockhead; but he was frightened out of all propriety nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
And here she puffs herself up like a frog and pukes in her own nest; she's a blockhead, all right, not a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio] Reference
If you get entangled in a dispute with some learned blockhead, you may silence him with a few extemporary quotations. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
The man who would claim such a silly thing ought to be discarded from scientific and literary circles as a blockhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference
With him Blake served out his seven years of apprenticeship, as faithful, painstaking, and industrious as any blockhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.