clodpates

Wellhung their little mill and little field to have wherewithal to make a figure at the next muster, having been told that his treasure was come to him by that only means, sold the only badge of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go lose them, as the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Wellhung their little mill and little field to have wherewithal to make a figure at the next muster, having been told that his treasure was come to him by that only means, sold the only badge of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go lose them, as the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

"He was so took aback," snickered Philemon, "that he up and says 't was the last he'd have ter do with 'em, an 'that they was a lot of clouts an' clodpates, an 'they' d got a captain ter match."

Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

Nay, the Aesopian apologue even saith, that certain petty country gents of the lower class who had sold the Woodman their little mill and little field to have wherewithal to make a figure at the next muster, having been told that his treasure was come to him by this only means, sold the only badge of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go lose them, as the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates.”

Two Poets 2007

The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates.”

Two Poets 2007

Nay, the Aesopian apologue even saith that certain petty country gents of the lower class, who had sold Wellhung their little mill and little field to have wherewithal to make a figure at the next muster, having been told that his treasure was come to him by that only means, sold the only badge of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go lose them, as the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates. "

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates. "

Two Poets Honor�� de Balzac 1824