Sentence Examples

1. For another thing I would have your graces understand that Sancho Panza is one of the drollest squires that ever served knight-errant sometimes there is a simplicity about him so acute that it is an amusement to try and make out whether he is simple or sharp he has mischievous tricks that stamp him rogue, and blundering ways that prove him a booby he doubts everything and believes everything when I fancy he is on the point of coming down headlong from sheer stupidity, he comes out with something shrewd that sends him up to the skies.
2. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
3. It took hours of cautious movement to traverse those levels, searching for booby traps lain long ago by the retreating Elves and scouting silently for any stray monsters.
4. It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable.
5. Pious, well-meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved.