jolter-headed

“With such undeniable facts before him, he would be the most jolter-headed fool alive, did he allow himself to be seduced by any spirit of a maudlin sentimentality or pseudo-philanthropy, to destroy by a misdirected benevolence all the good results which it has taken nearly two centuries to accomplish.”

Social relations in our Southern States,

“We must have been jolter-headed geniuses not to have anticipated M. 's reply.”

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

“Behind Mr. Oldbuck's seat (which was an ancient leathern-covered easy-chair, worn smooth by constant use) was a huge oaken cabinet, decorated at each corner with Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them.”

The Antiquary — Complete

“Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them.”

The Antiquary

“a huge oaken cabinet, decorated at each corner with Dutch cherubs, having their little duck-wings displayed, and great jolter-headed visages placed between them.”

The Antiquary

“Prefer for an ancestor, to one whom scholar and sage never name but in homage, a worthless, obscure, jolter-headed booby in mail, whose only record to men is a brass plate in a church in a village! ”

The Caxtons — Volume 03