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To plainly tell the truth, we do not rue   The sober, godly course that we pursue;   But 'tis not we who live the dronish lives,   But those who have their husbands or their wives!

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles

Were these Monthly Reviews and Magazines frothy, pert, or absurd, they might find some pardon, but to be dull and dronish is an encroachment on the prerogative of a folio.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

Drones are but the robbers of the hive; ladies educated to no purpose are but surfeited to a dronish condition on the sweets of literature.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

We call things stupid, dronish, monotonous, because our faculties are not sufficiently exercised to see any other qualities in them.

From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H

Superficial, new, petulant acquisition, and interrupted, dronish, broken, ill recollection, is to be the destined character of all your future governors.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund