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And as that dull-pated Savoyard said, that if the seelie31 King of France could cunningly have managed his fortune, he might verie well have made himselfe chiefe Steward of his Lords household, whose imagination conceived no other greatnesse than his Masters; we are all insensible of this kind of errour: an errour of great consequence and prejudice.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

He had hobnobbed with dull-pated village constables.

Platform Monologues 1902

Homer in his life-time "dull-pated pennifathers," and says that "those grey-beard huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs were strooke with stinging remorse of their miserable euchonisme and sundgery."

History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

"You 'but' enough to butt down a wall, you dull-pated old Stead," said Emlyn, "you know where to get at more, and so do I."

Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

13 Perhaps their inability to understand the generality of Americanisms or to enter naturally into the spirit of the language helps to explain the common American notion that they are dull-pated and unable to appreciate a joke.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921

"Nay, she is as much deluded as the rest, and so is that honest, dull-pated sailor, Talbot.

Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"Never take it so heavily, my love!" exclaimed Butler, familiarly seizing her hand, whose trembling now betrayed her agitation, -- "it is the mere sport of the war to be upon a running service, where a light stratagem or so will baffle a set of dull-pated clodpoles!

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

And as that dull-pated Savoyard said, that if the seelie [Footnote

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