"Oafish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her hand and her elbow on the table, turning thus to look long and intently at me. I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King. Many things I might have wished to say and do with that slender figure and lissome waist so near me. But I knew not how to begin. Yet ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... why did he let the young idiot get his goat that way? Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults? ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett
... money, so did an old uncle, I believe. She'd gossip and pray and preach with anybody. And now she'll weep and pine like that till she dies—and she isn't sure even about heaven any more—and instead of Jamie, she's got that oafish lad, that changeling, hung round her neck—to kick her and ill-treat her in another year or two. Well! and do you ever think that something like that has got to happen to all of us—something hideous—some torture—something that'll make us wish we'd never ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
