'Thou jolter-head!' muttered the Anglian to himself; then with a jog to. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
“Hobgoblin,” answered the boy readily; “but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a brick-bat.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Genie is a misshapen dwarf, with a huge jolter-head like that of. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
We must have been jolter-headed geniuses not to have anticipated M. 's reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
The next scene - the jolter - was a close-up of an engineer doing his bit to bring the astronauts back. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
I should like to know whether her little conceited noddle, or her father's old crazy calculating jolter-pate, breeds most whimsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
I called them jolter heads, numsculls, dunderpates, dom cops, bottericks, domme jordans, and a thousand other equally indignant appellations. From Wordnik.com. [A History of New York] Reference
No doubt I rejoiced to fool these jolter-heads; and no doubt the sense of security that I drank from their dull, gasping faces encouraged me to proceed extremely far. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
"Hobgoblin," answered the boy readily; "but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a brick-bat.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Behind Mr. Oldbuck's seat (which was an ancient leathern-covered easy-chair, worn smooth by constant use) was a huge oaken cabinet, decorated at each corner with Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference
With such undeniable facts before him, he would be the most jolter-headed fool alive, did he allow himself to be seduced by any spirit of a maudlin sentimentality or pseudo-philanthropy, to destroy by a misdirected benevolence all the good results which it has taken nearly two centuries to accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
I should like to know whether her little conceited noddle, or her father’s old crazy calculating jolter-pate, breeds most whimsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
A huge oaken cabinet, decorated at each corner with Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
But it isn’t hanging yet for a man to keep a penn’orth of poison for his own purposes, and have it taken from him by two old crazy jolter – heads who go and act a play about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
We can go three in your jolter.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
And Byron’s style is “jolter-headed jargon;”. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
And then, what a comely sight, all kneeling down together in one pew, according to eldership as we have seen in effigy, a whole family upon some old monument, where the honest chevalier in armour is presented kneeling, with up-lifted hands, and half a dozen jolter-headed crop-eared boys behind him, ranged gradatim, or step-fashion according to age and size, all in the same posture -- facing his pious dame, with a ruff about her neck, and as many whey-faced girls all kneeling behind her: an altar between them, and an open book upon it: over their heads semiluminary rays darting from gilded clouds, surrounding an achievement - motto, IN COELO SALUS -- or QUIES -- perhaps, if they have happened to live the usual married life of brawl and contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6] Reference
And then, what a comely sight, all kneeling down together in one pew, according to eldership as we have seen in effigy, a whole family upon some old monument, where the honest chevalier in armour is presented kneeling, with up-lifted hands, and half a dozen jolter-headed crop-eared boys behind him, ranged gradatim, or step-fashion according to age and size, all in the same posture — facing his pious dame, with a ruff about her neck, and as many whey-faced girls all kneeling behind her: an altar between them, and an open book upon it: over their heads semiluminary rays darting from gilded clouds, surrounding an achievement-motto, IN COELO SALUS — or QUIES — perhaps, if they have happened to live the usual married life of brawl and contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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