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The people laughed at the grotesque appearance of some, and at the decrepit sottishness of others.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

How many groundless opinions and absurd institutions have not received a general sanction from the sottishness and intemperance of individuals?

From A Vindication of Natural Diet. by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

There was no sottishness about it, no solitary drinking, no drinking for drink's sake, no drunkenness.

From The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon by Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)

I would show you how—by the faith of Saint Paul!—it as well befits a fool to talk folly and sottishness as it becomes a wise man to speak wisely.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander