dolt

Is it necessary that he should be a dolt in order to be fitted for his vocation?

I wonder so talented a father should own a dolt like Rufus for a son.

Why did not you go and talk to that brute of a boy, and that dolt of a woman?

While he had stood there a dolt and sluggard, she had satisfied her curiosity and stolen away.

But that dolt had not a worde to say for him self, but was as doume as a bitle in that mater.

Why did you not go and talk to that brute of a boy and that dolt of a woman?

Let any one take her, only not such a wooden head, such a bear, such a dolt.

Valencia was a conspirator, a drunkard, a dolt and a volcano.

Have I been a dolt—a fool—in not recognising feelings for which I did not dare to hope?

His heart gave a jump partly of self-derision, the dolt he had been!