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And letting on hoon var daft about the warbly sangs from over holmen: High hellskirt saw ladies hensmoker lily-hung pigger: and soay and soan and so firth and so forth in a tone sonora and Oom Bothar below like Bheri – Bheri in his sandy cloak, so umvolosy, as deaf as a yawn, the stult!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Multi enim faciunt quod facit sapiens, sed non sapienter, sed magis stult� de quorum numero timeo me esse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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One likes better in some ways Cato's stult old Roman attitude: who scorned Greek all his life for sheer foppery, while he knew of nothing better written in it than such trash as poetry and philosophy; but at eighty came on a Greek treatise on manure and straightway learned the language that he might read and enjoy something profitable and thoroughly Roman in spirit.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
madmouth commented on the word stult
"A derisive name for a tailor." (OED)
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August 24, 2010