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Word: idiot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think. I don't want to. I am not an instructor paid to do the thinking for every idiot who can't do it for himself. So I answer, "I don't know," and he straightway wants to know why I don't know. Now what fellow can be expected to know why he don't know whether it will rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very hot and the road is dusty. (I anathematize Jenkins for advising me to come to Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...worse than brule; that bestial, idiot leer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALLEY OF THE VISP. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...followed him closer, and noticed that his eyes bent an idiot's stare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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