"Wooden-headed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I am rightly punished! What would I not give now to have homely little BRUNETTE, and dear old wooden-headed TIMBURINA back again! She wouldn't melt in the sun.... Where are they now? Great Heavens! that threat—that rash resolve ... I remember all! 'Twas in the direction of the Pond they vanished. (Peeping ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 • Various
... It may have been wooden-headed for the Filipinos to expect this, but expect it they certainly did. We have seen how they held their soldiers in check until after Spain had been ousted from the Philippines by the Treaty of Paris as they had originally planned to do. It now only remained to carry out the balance of their ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... unkind! but wooden-headed creatures. However, I can't complain of them. There are neighbours: there's a Mr. Kasatkin's daughter, a cultivated, kind, ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Volume II • Ivan Turgenev
... John, consternation-struck by this new development. It was evident that the same stupidity which had allowed Merrilac to make his escape in the first act, had led this singularly wooden-headed hero ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... guest, together with all the supplies prepared for their journey, was no longer where he had left him. A second glance disclosed the dinghy half way to the beach, while in her stern, sculling her swiftly along with practised hand, stood the wooden-headed young savage who didn't know how to manage ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe |
