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  • The only thing they had to grumble at was the shorter commons, and when we came to the Upper Crossing on the third day, the damfools were so drugged with their false sense of security that they made my reduction in rations an excuse for changing course.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • An awful lot of people are making damfools of themselves.

    Handy Rundown Of Conservative Reactions to Foley Scandal 2009

  • We do owe it to these damfools to give them a black President.

    Obama Supporters' Tires Slashed 2009

  • The only thing they had to grumble at was the shorter commons, and when we came to the Upper Crossing on the third day, the damfools were so drugged with their false sense of security that they made my reduction in rations an excuse for changing course.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • The only thing they had to grumble at was the shorter commons, and when we came to the Upper Crossing on the third day, the damfools were so drugged with their false sense of security that they made my reduction in rations an excuse for changing course.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • He shut up, realizing that. grim old Mother Nature, red of tooth and claw, invariably punished damfools who tried to ignore Her or to repeal Her ordinances; he need not interfere. \par

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

  • It had rained from first light, and by the time we had walked through the churned-up streets, and been splashed by wagons and by damfools who didn't look where they were going, we were in a sorry state.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • It had rained from first light, and by the time we had walked through the churned-up streets, and been splashed by wagons and by damfools who didn't look where they were going, we were in a sorry state.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • The dollars I get are surplus ones that are burning the pockets of damfools and greenhorns.

    The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886

  • Spiritualists, bone-rubbers, anti-vivisectionists, all sort of anti's in fact, those who have fads about education or fads against it, Perfectionists, Daughters of the Dove of Peace, Sons of the Roaring Torrent, itinerant peace-mongers ” all these may have a real genius among them once in forty years; but to look for an exception to the common run of yellow dogs and damfools among them is like opening oysters with the hope of finding pearls.

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

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