So absurdly wise some, and so sottishly foolish others; and both sometime in the same person. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Ireland deserved what she suffered -- that she has been always sottishly discontented and basely ungrateful. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
He called for champagne -- drank greedily -- finished the bottle -- returned to the gaming-room flushed and feverish -- looked at the players savagely, but sottishly, for a few moments, and then left the house altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The measures which they had already tried to smother the discontents of the people, and to repress those violent and illegal consequences of it, had not only proved ineffectual, but had aggravated, to a most alarming height, the mischiefs which they were sottishly expected to remedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
Thus sottishly they live till they have no money left. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main] Reference
Page 241 father; but this he appeared not to notice; for he was too sottishly drunk even to heed them. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
With him Alexander was the veritable demigod whom he sottishly decreed that his subjects should see in him. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
(made so by unavoidable accidents and casualties) from the wilfully, or perversely, or sottishly such, by greater marks of my favour. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Dead: some by their own hands; down and out many, drivelling sottishly of by-gone days; poor prospectors a few, dreaming of a new gold strike. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
For what pleasure did David find in his crown and sceptre, and all his royal greatness, when his dear (though sottishly beloved) Absalom was torn from him?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.] Reference
That I, a preacher! whom the Prince did set up to teach to Mansoul his law, should myself live senseless and sottishly here, and be one of the first found in transgression!. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul] Reference
Where, upon the result of all, it is perhaps a disputable case, whether of the two is a worse thing, to flatter or to be flattered; to be so sordid, and withal mischievous, as to practise the one, or so blind and sottishly easy as to suffer the other. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
Their princes and great men, who are fat and bulky, shall fall by the sword, not as men of war in the field of battle, which we call a bed of honour, but as beasts by the butcher's hand (v. 27): Slay all her bullocks, all her mighty men; let them go down sottishly and insensibly, as an ox to the slaughter. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Under sentence he behaved himself indolently and sottishly, doing nothing but eat his victuals and doze in his bed; thinking it at the same time a very great indignity that he should be obliged to take up with those thieves and robbers who were in the same state of condemnation with himself, always behaving himself towards then very distantly, and as if it would have been a great debasement to him if he had joined with them in devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Now, the seventh hour of night hath passed, and all await us at the house of Læca; and this foul sluggard sottishly snores at home! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
"No, no! Of a dark night, a tavern, a cloaked woman, a sordid fellow dreaming sottishly by the fire, a prayer, a love-tale and a promise. From Wordnik.com. [If I Were King] Reference
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