I asked Mr. Baker, the chirurgeon in the household of my Lord Oxford, the other day, about that; and he said that such tales be but doltish dreams and old wives' fables.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
Boston was neither doltish enough nor wicked enough to generate and sustain slander of such quantity and quality as would force one of her ladies of wit and high connections to die ignominiously on the gallows-never, never.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
"Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said Don Quixote.
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra