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  • Both times I was scared so witless that the guards had to carry me along by the arms.†   (source)
  • I am better knowninternationally than your witless state president.†   (source)
  • It's a witless form of flight with bodies packed in close and the gate-crashing becoming real.†   (source)
  • We were scared witless.†   (source)
  • Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave.†   (source)
  • He felt desperate: lost and witless.†   (source)
  • No one willing to lead in this gutless, witless age, either.†   (source)
  • At those times, I would feel a witless anger at their simple gamboling.†   (source)
  • When he'd taken that as a compliment, she had told him that only a moron, a hormone-crazed pubescent boy, or an ape in the zoo would be witless enough to take pride in it.†   (source)
  • "You witless fools," Jaime had snarled at Boros Blount and Osmund Kettleblack later, in a dungeon that stank of blood and death.†   (source)
  • If for even an instant he pretended to misery like mine … "You think me a witless fool," he whispered.†   (source)
  • A last few spiders crawled witlessly around the smoking bodies of their fellows, and she burned them one by one with the flashlight.†   (source)
  • Then I heard the strangest voices I had ever heard in my life: human voices I was sure, but they sounded more like the witless chorales of insects in the forest than anything readily attributable to the family of man.†   (source)
  • Linnie's witless face and her dropped jaw.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude.†   (source)
  • It was the firm opinion of every recruit that this was sheer meanness, calculated sadism, fiendish delight of witless morons in making other people suffer.†   (source)
  • They laughed, as if to urge her by their shock to go on, and the American girl witlessly murmured, "No, I have a letter to write."†   (source)
  • The weather was bad enough to scare me witless, that's all I know for sure."†   (source)
  • I was shocked and chilled and scared witless.†   (source)
  • There is no true vengeance on a witless brute as there might be on a man.†   (source)
  • Most stone men are feeble creatures, clumsy, lumbering, witless.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace, the poor child is shocked witless," murmured Ser Dontos.†   (source)
  • You see, he thinks I'm dumb and witless like his other horses.†   (source)
  • The robber, as if he had seen a ghost, jumped out of the grave and bolted away witless.†   (source)
  • Did your witless Balman bring my name into this?†   (source)
  • They gave Robert more respect than they give me, and Robert was a witless sot.†   (source)
  • He drinks a few handfuls of water from a stone birdbath, ornamented with witless-looking frogs and still mostly full from yesterday's downpour, and not too muddied with bird droppings.†   (source)
  • They usually traveled in packs, and once when he threw a stone at some of them, they chased, caught, and beat him witless.†   (source)
  • Days without names, witless afternoons, quick and profane and quickly over, and no longing in advance or after, and no words required, and nothing to pay.†   (source)
  • You know very well that the beasts in Narnia nowadays are different and are no more than the poor dumb, witless creatures you'd find in Calormen or Telmar.†   (source)
  • Up till now Tirian had taken it for granted that the horses which the Calormenes were driving were their own horses; dumb, witless animals like the horses of our own world.†   (source)
  • A witless worm have you become.†   (source)
  • Are you utterly witless?†   (source)
  • All these years I have been a slave to humans, hiding my true nature and pretending to be dumb and witless like their horses.†   (source)
  • Now you can save me; when this hour has passed, I shall be witless again — the toy and lap-dog, nay, more likely the pawn and tool, of the most devilish sorceress that ever planned the woe of men.†   (source)
  • And if it could be the same one, what's to prevent him having gone wild and witless like so many others?†   (source)
  • For every one of them had been taught — when it was only a chick or a puppy or a cub — how Aslan at the beginning of the world had turned the beasts of Narnia into Talking Beasts and warned them that if they weren't good they might one day be turned back again and be like the poor witless animals one meets in other countries.†   (source)
  • I felt laughter welling up inside me--at the dragon-charm, at Hrothgar's whispering and trembling by the meadhall door, at everything--the oblivious trees and sky, the witless moon.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, up in the shattered hall, the builders are hammering, replacing the door for (it must be) the fiftieth or sixtieth time, industrious and witless as worker ants--except that they make small, foolish changes, adding a few more iron pegs, more iron bands, with tireless dogmatism.†   (source)
  • You spoiled witless little boy, you've killed Clegane and gods know how many more, and yet you come through unscratched.†   (source)
  • Her grief has made her witless.†   (source)
  • I drink wine, you witless cretin.†   (source)
  • Witless fools.†   (source)
  • At this hour, to send it in the hands of a witless halfling into the land of the Enemy himself, as you have done, and this son of mine, that is madness.†   (source)
  • Why he should get a new lease on life from teasing, perplexing, confounding an old man who sat half-asleep, witless and innocent as an ancient bull with a ring through its nose--who could tell?†   (source)
  • Already men were breaking away, flying wild and witless here and there, flinging away their weapons, crying out in fear, falling to the ground.†   (source)
  • The head of Jamey, bent there below her, seemed witless, terrifying, wonderful, almost inaccessible to her, and yet in its explicit nearness meant surely for destruction, with its clustered hot woolly hair, its intricate, glistening ears, its small brown branching streams of sweat, the bowed head holding so obviously and so fatally its ridiculous dream.†   (source)
  • He was shaking all over, and Nuper was sitting cool as a cucumber, eating his lettuce with sugar on it, and Marguerite was pushing back her chair with a look of witless grief and rage, leaving for the kitchen.†   (source)
  • But on rare occasions, when the moment is exactly right and the audience is utterly responsive, my encyclopedic ability to run on and on about a subject has served me in good stead; at a time when the situation demands the blessed release of witless diversion, nothing can be more soothing than useless facts and empty statistics.†   (source)
  • As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled wailing back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope.†   (source)
  • From a vague sense of his own image, not clear to him yet, but there, final, however unrealized inside his head: a shadowy higher ground toward which, instinctively, he must go on witlessly fleeing.†   (source)
  • He was witless and wandering, and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key.†   (source)
  • "Witless block!" he ground out, "Lucky for you I found you.†   (source)
  • It serves you right and I'm glad, damn your witless soul!†   (source)
  • He lay sprawled, scattered and witless with passion, unable to collect and focus his heat.†   (source)
  • White-faced, scared witless, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barton got into a closed car.†   (source)
  • Now you've done it!" said Luke, with witless guffaw.†   (source)
  • McGuire belched into the silence loudly and was witlessly adrift for a moment.†   (source)
  • McGuire, drunkenly lost in revery, stared witlessly down at his bean plate and sighed.†   (source)
  • He sees things as they are; that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice-hideous, witless justice.†   (source)
  • Luke parroted all of his father's sermons, but earnestly and witlessly, without Gant's humor, without his chicanery, only with his sentimentality.†   (source)
  • As she lurched (for she rolled like a ship at sea) and leered (for her eyes fell on nothing directly, but with a sidelong glance that deprecated the scorn and anger of the world—she was witless, she knew it), as she clutched the banisters and hauled herself upstairs and rolled from room to room, she sang.†   (source)
  • And some witless servant could be heard laughing at the top of the house as she whirred the wheel of the sewing-machine round and round.†   (source)
  • Then, as Steve sprawled dazed and witless on the floor, Luke sprang upon him with stammering curse, and, past reason, began to drag him up and down.†   (source)
  • Dressed all in white, and clutching firmly in their small hands the tiny stems of American flags, the pigmies, monstrous as only children can be when they become the witless mouths of slogans and crusades, charged hungrily, uttering their shrill cries, upon their Gulliver.†   (source)
  • They picked him foul and witless from the cobbles, and brought him home—the banker, the policeman, and a burly devoted Swiss named Jannadeau, a grimy jeweller who rented a small fenced space among Gant's tombstones.†   (source)
  • He had a high sonorous countrified voice which often trailed off in a comical drawl; he got lost very easily in revery, would pause in the middle of a sentence, gaze absently off with his mouth half-open and an expression of stupefaction on his face, and return presently to the business before him, his mind still loose, with witless distracted laugh.†   (source)
  • "But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.†   (source)
  • For that witless face That my hand soon will come to cuff—is all As empty….†   (source)
  • A well-curled pate, and witless tongue, perchance!†   (source)
  • Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.†   (source)
  • Uncle Charles had grown so witless that he could no longer be sent out on errands and the disorder in settling in the new house left Stephen freer than he had been in Blackrock.†   (source)
  • Joan had no idea to advance, but with the lessening of her fear and the gradual clearing of her mind she felt that she would not much longer be witless.†   (source)
  • Chapter XVI A WITLESS ALADDIN—THE GATE TO THE WORLD In the course of his present stay in Chicago, Drouet paid some slight attention to the secret order to which he belonged.†   (source)
  • And there is, I fear, even on the most designing artist's part, always witless enough good faith, always anxious enough desire, to fail to guard him against their deceits.†   (source)
  • "A fool by right of descent," answered the Jester; "I am Wamba, the son of Witless, who was the son of Weatherbrain, who was the son of an Alderman."†   (source)
  • The mob vanished in an instant; and after them plunged the horsemen, laying about them with their whips and pitilessly riding down such as were witless enough to keep the road instead of taking to the bush.†   (source)
  • "I had no idea," said Isabel presently; and looked up at her in a manner that doubtless matched the apparent witlessness of this confession.†   (source)
  • A WHISPER TO THE READER "There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.†   (source)
  • He had thin silver bracelets upon his arms, and on his neck a collar of the same metal bearing the inscription, "Wamba, the son of Witless, is the thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood."†   (source)
  • Good right there is, that the son of Witless should suffer to save the son of Hereward; but little wisdom there were in his dying for the benefit of one whose fathers were strangers to his.†   (source)
  • "E'en let them do as they are permitted," said Wamba; "I trust—no disparagement to your birth—that the son of Witless may hang in a chain with as much gravity as the chain hung upon his ancestor the alderman."†   (source)
  • The Templar accordingly read it as follows:—"I, Wamba, the son of Witless, Jester to a noble and free-born man, Cedric of Rotherwood, called the Saxon,—And I, Gurth, the son of Beowulph, the swineherd—"†   (source)
  • So he petitioned, witless as a child that what he begged for was his own death, hard death and doom.†   (source)
  • How witless, to imagine Akhilleus could be swayed!†   (source)
  • While Enkidu lay alone in his sickness he cursed the gate as though it was living flesh, 'You there, wood of the gate, dull and insensible, witless, I searched for you over twenty leagues until I saw the towering cedar.†   (source)
  • Witless shellfish swam in the gross lenses to and fro, seeking outlet.†   (source)
  • TEIRESIAS Aye, for ye all are witless, but my voice Will ne'er reveal my miseries—or thine.†   (source)
  • A witty mother! witless else her son.†   (source)
  • My holy sir, none better knows than you How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd, And held in idle price to haunt assemblies Where youth, and cost, a witless bravery keeps.†   (source)
  • This thou art witless seeking to possess Without a following or friends the crown, A prize that followers and wealth must win.†   (source)
  • 2) King, I say it once again, Witless were I proved, insane, If I lightly put away Thee my country's prop and stay, Pilot who, in danger sought, To a quiet haven brought Our distracted State; and now Who can guide us right but thou?†   (source)
  • Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise?†   (source)
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