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More than he himself thought the death of his once loved child stirred the human soul in him, and he was not able again to fall back into sottishness.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

"But what foolishness and craziness and sottishness for Ishmael to be in love with Miss Merlin!" exclaimed Hannah impatiently.

From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

It would be vexatious to have to resign a modicum of personal liberty, but the sacking of the castle by a watchful enemy, who knew of its master's sottishness, would be a worse evil.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

The mind thus enslaved, necessarily loses its interest in the processes of other minds; and its tendency is to sink down into absolute stolidity or sottishness.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan

But, besides, I know not what I should rather admire in him, his presumption or his sottishness.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony