"There would be men in England who would give it me," she raved, whispering. "That would there, I swear! But there would be dullards and dastards who would not. He would give it--he! Ay, mock as thou wilt! But between his high honour and love and me thy carrion SHALL not come!"英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"I will take lessons from her; she had managed to make a peer of France of that eminently ordinary person her husband, and a dullard into a power in the land. But, pray tell me this, did Lord Grenville die for her sake, do you think, as some women say?"英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Any dullard can be waited on and served, but to serve requires judgment, skill, tact, patience and industry.英文原著 · 《John Jacob Astor》
Gervase had set the river for their meeting As farthest from the farms where Everard Spent all his days. How should he know such cheating Was quite expected, at least no dullard Was Everard Frampton. Hours by hours he hid Among the willows watching. Dusk had come, And from the Manor he had long been gone. Eunice her burdensome Task set about. Hooded and cloaked, she slid Over the slippery paths, and soon amid The sallows saw a boat tied to a stone.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
Or it may be (pleasing thought!) that the critic is a dullard, and does not understand what he is writing about. Everybody who has been to an exhibition has heard visitors discoursing about the pictures before their faces. One says, "This is very well;" another says, "This is stuff and rubbish;" another cries, "Bravo! this is a masterpiece:" and each has a right to his opinion. For example, one of the pictures I admired most at the Royal Academy is by a gentleman on whom I never, to my knowledge, set eyes. This picture is No. 346, "Moses," by Mr. Solomon.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
If you'd whined this much as a baby, I'd've slipped more whisky in your bottle and risked the chance that you'd be a dullard.美剧 · 《Billions》
How can two brainless dullards like us ever hope to entertain Mr Blake?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
How can brainless dullards like us ever hope to entertain Mr Blake?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》