10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THICK-WITTEDLY»
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thick-wittedly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern ...
"Oh yes, we often fly together." "That's his wife?" "His first wife. Dutch by birth. A
real white lady. Good-looking, isn't she?" I felt myself growing more insensible by
the minute. Thick-wittedly, I asked, "His first wife?" "Yes, the second's Sundanese.
David M. E. Roskies, 1997
2
Slaves of Sleep & the Masters of Sleep
The vanguard was halfway down the run before she realized it. Thick-wittedly she
came on. With a cool bravado her captain began to furl without haste. A gang of
human sailors was driven forward, swarmed around the kedge and struggled aft
...
I tell him this, thick-tongued and thick-wittedly. So I say I will discuss his
settlement proposal with Jeannie and get back to him. I know very well she will
settle at any price rather than compromise her brother's election campaign. Still,
the suit ...
And it may be all right, and Austin may still be worrying himself thick-wittedly ; but
it's necessary to be certain that above these plots and tricks, looking down on
them and knowing them for what they are, Austin and Channon stand side by
side, ...
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One Hundred Days of Summer
andIrecall my pieceinUnleashed two monthsago – thick-wittedly entitled 'WhyAre
Wein Afghanistan?' – inwhichI noted the Lockerbie Bomber, Abdelbaset al-
Megrahi, was safe homein Libya now,and Libya was where the high-
altitudeatrocity ...
"He's not lost," Peder said thick-wittedly. "If he's not lost, what's he doing on the
Hwa Met? Of course he's lost." "Hm," said Knut. "How would you get him to shore,
though? None of us can swim, and the Hwa Mei handles too badly to try to take ...
... favourable light than the one in which nature and circumstances would shortly
have revealed them, but saved them the excuses which they were painfully and
thick-wittedly concocting. Saunders had the gift of letting every man hang himself.
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Esquire: The Magazine for Men
But I, stupidly, thick-wittedly, more ambivalently than any philosopher should, still
look at my horoscope; I still consult the / Ching. I find it hard not to believe that a
spiritual system of some sort invests the world. Science surely cannot account for
...
William S. Burroughs, 1984
9
Le Robert & Collins super senior: grand dictionnaire ...
... costaud* thick-Skinned l^ syni adj orange à la peau épaisse ; (fig) person peu
sensible • he's very thick-skinned c'est un dur, rien ne le touche thick-skulled * (
sud), thlck-witted* adj bête, obtus, borné thick-wittedly* [witidlij adv bêtement thief
...
Alain Duval, Dominique Le Fur, Vivian Marr, 1995
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“Le” Robert & Collins super senior: grand dictionnaire ...
... thick-witted * adj -> thlckheaded r> thick-wittedly * adv bêtement thicken [t)ik,)n]
1^>a~I fj] vt [+ sauce] épaissir, lier [2] vl [branch, waist etc] s'épaissir ; [crowd]
grossir , [sauce etc] épaissir ; (fig) [mystery] s'épaissir ; -> plot thickener l'eik-mo'l
n ...
Alain Duval, Kathleen Micham, 2000
