Word: duller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sallied forth thus alone. To which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown ale; and asking of the carle who kept the inn, he learned that the place was hight Vanity Fair, and in it was Harvard...
...pleasure of college life; moving within a charmed circle, the limit to which he has himself described, and inside of which he invites no one to come. Like the famed chameleon, basking in the light of his own brilliancy, but losing these bright tints and assuming one of a duller sort when any one approaches, so our recluse draws about him his mantle of chilling reserve if any one ventures to break in upon his privacy, and with some well-worded excuse is gone, leaving one to wonder how he can ever break through this coldness, which, like a coat...
High o'er thy busy brethren's duller clang...