Example Sentences

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What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical?

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

The central inquisitor was trying to extract from him information about à Becket, almost prompting him with the very words, but without penetrating through the duncical denseness.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

I have no patience with the foolish duncical dog —upon my soul, I have not!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

The central inquisitor was trying to extract from him information about Becket, almost prompting him with the very words, but without penetrating through the duncical denseness.

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship by Zangwill, Israel