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’ I said, my words sounding daft even as I utter them
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How daft is that?’
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‘Don’t be daft! What would be the point of that?’
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His immediate understanding of the situation and calm acceptance nearly breaks me, I swallow hard, ‘… it seems so daft now …
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Simon … he wants to marry me (darling daft man that he is!) and I want to be his wife … in fact I have said I will marry him … a statement of fact, incontrovertible and inarguable
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'Don't be daft, Dave
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‘Don’t be daft, Dave
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‘Not as daft as it sounds, Sergeant
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And don't be filling you head with daft ideas,’ he'd said in a kindly tone, from the lounge
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” Both I and Elijah nodded our heads in agreement because it did seem daft to keep on attacking without changing your plans when they didn’t work and when you had tried more than once
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“I know it sounds daft but that’s the only way to describe the look on his face of course the machine gun had caught him square on and stitched a row of holes across his chest
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She told me not to be so daft and that there was nothing I could do for Rosie at the moment and that if she found out it would upset her
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“Don’t talk daft Mabel didn’t like you at all it was all in your head man she couldn’t bear to be with you so keep quite
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I was being daft and insecure
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standing beside my wife and saying daft things that I am
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I’ll assume that you haven’t actually been so daft as to actually try this, so let’s get on with how you can become a better listener…
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“Yes mate,” replied Stu “Who in their right mind would hassle a man with a mullet like that, you should have give him that daft hat, and then he would have double protection
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They noticed the cave screen had been opened and saw on a CCTV cave monitor, a large man in a daft hat and a smaller man gazing into their abyss
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putting a stop to Beth’s daft ideas, she went along with her
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It wasn’t just another of my daft, ill-considered,
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That daft boy you have for a consort ill becomes you
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But he said they were only bits of kids acting daft after a couple of drinks, no harm in them
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“You two there, what are ye, daft? Hoist the mainsail!”
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'It's what? Don't be bloody daft girl' This was dad
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“Are you daft?” the mayor said, incredulous, as he looked at
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stress and suffering as he shot past, his mouth slack, daft
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he could see through their daft hippy mist
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Shoop could think was that the daft sod must’ve been mind buggerinlgy drunk by
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He may be a daft prick, but he’s
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of that daft facial hair away with it!’ Shoop gave an evil grin
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convinced that his need to see him dead would override any daft restriction that
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She must think him daft
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‘Of all the daft things we did, this was one of the stupidest
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They must have been daft
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“He’s gone daft,” said Padlimaird, and I looked at his shirt
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how anyone could stumble their way into such a daft situation
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The man is daft
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‘Nothing, you daft woman
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for the daft things you are always saying!
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‘We was daft fuckers back then,’ says Stripehead, recalling the incident from the tranquility of a hotel bar in Stockholm, where the band are working on their first new material for years
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“Are you daft? He just tried to kill you!” He hissed
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I know that sounds daft but it was
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know it sounds daft but when I had the
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know that sounds daft but I wish I could
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that sounds daft but it was something I hadn"t
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daft but when I had the accident when I was 3 I
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hours with him, I know that sounds daft but I
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Daft? Petra bit back a snort and fought the urge to spit out her SAT results
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In fact the daft animal was far more likely to run
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“I’m not daft,” snapped the wand
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were hunters, and the one daft bugger had fallen from his horse and
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"You what? Have you gone daft in the head?"
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"Don't talk daft! If I didn't want to be kissed you would have had a knee to the bollocks!" Tracey said without thinking
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Wayne said it was daft but I liked it
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‘Could Sayeed be daft enough to
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he be daft enough to think we’d ease off, and then he could use
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knew Bradshaw was a little bit daft
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have a daft smile on his face while he was stomping about and raving
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The boy’s not daft
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“Annie, fancy watching some of those daft blue
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‘We look daft in these
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“Are you daft man! That’s gonna…
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her money imagine his poor wife or mother or whoever she is such a face youd run miles away from I couldnt rest easy till I bolted all the doors and windows to make sure but its worse again being locked up like in a prison or a madhouse they ought to be all shot or the cat of nine tails a big brute like that that would attack a poor old woman to murder her in her bed Id cut them off him so I would not that hed be much use still better than nothing the night I was sure I heard burglars in the kitchen and he went down in his shirt with a candle and a poker as if he was looking for a mouse as white as a sheet frightened out of his wits making as much noise as he possibly could for the burglars benefit there isnt much to steal indeed the Lord knows still its the feeling especially now with Milly away such an idea for him to send the girl down there to learn to take photographs on account of his grandfather instead of sending her to Skerrys academy where shed have to learn not like me getting all IS at school only hed do a thing like that all the same on account of me and Boylan thats why he did it Im certain the way he plots and plans everything out I couldnt turn round with her in the place lately unless I bolted the door first gave me the fidgets coming in without knocking first when I put the chair against the door just as I was washing myself there below with the glove get on your nerves then doing the loglady all day put her in a glasscase with two at a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she left that I got that little Italian boy to mend so that you cant see the join for 2 shillings wouldnt even teem the potatoes for you of course shes right not to ruin her hands I noticed he was always talking to her lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to understand sly of course that comes from his side of the house he cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and helping her into her coat but if there was anything wrong with her its me shed tell not him I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on the shelf well Im not no nor anything like it well see well see now shes well on for flirting too with Tom Devans two sons imitating me whistling with those romps of Murray girls calling for her can Milly come out please shes in great demand to pick what they can out of her round in Nelson street riding Harry Devans bicycle at night its as well he sent her where she is she was just getting out of bounds wanting to go on the skatingrink and smoking their cigarettes through their nose I smelt it off her dress when I was biting off the thread of the button I sewed on to the bottom of her jacket she couldnt hide much from me I tell you only I oughtnt to have stitched it and it on her it brings a parting and the last plumpudding too split in 2 halves see it comes out no matter what they say her tongue is a bit too long for my taste your blouse is open too low she says to me the pan calling the kettle blackbottom and I had to tell her not to cock her legs up like that on show on the windowsill before all the people passing they all look at her like me when I was her age of course any old rag looks well on you then a great touchmenot too in her own way at the Only Way in the Theatre royal take your foot away out of that I hate people touching me afraid of her life Id crush her skirt with the pleats a lot of that touching must go on in theatres in the crush in the dark theyre always trying to wiggle up to you that fellow in the pit at the Gaiety for Beerbohm Tree in Trilby the last time Ill ever go there to be squashed like that for any Trilby or her barebum every two minutes tipping me there and looking away hes a bit daft I
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He speired whae had ta'en my place that day, and I let on I thocht him daft
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There was one Edwin Needham who seemed to be an expert on water purification, and another who was good at getting himself into society photographs and looking daft
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The producer emerged, apoplectic with rage, and attempted to give me a dressing-down for Pete having ruined the illusion of a live performance with his daft prank
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Don’t be daft
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“Then send for Madam Hackabout-Jones in care of Mother Coxtart,” say I, thinking myself daft to reveal my Whereabouts
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“So I’ve proposed,” said Horatio, “but he is daft to build this Eden of his, this Sacred ‘Deocracy’ he calls it, upon God’s Soil
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“Lancelot is so daft with Plans for his glorious Rebellion that he hardly remembers to eat a Bite of Food or sleep a Wink at Night,” Horatio declar’d
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Horatio lookt at me and smil’d a Smile which seem’d to say: Daft he is and yet we love him still
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Dear Goddess, thought I, spare me this rambling Tale, which bores me so it makes my Ears itch! Were Lancelot and Horatio both daft? Had they no Judgement at all? I began to nod and close my Eyes, pretending to listen, but only listening here and there to Anne’s Tale when it suited my Convenience
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He lookt at the Horse, then lookt at me as if I were daft; Littlehat did the same
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Were any of us—even the great captain, Karyl—any less daft than Longeau and that lot to think we stood any chance against them?
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"Don't be daft, boy
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"There go two daft ones now," muttered the old Manxman
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"One daft with strength, the other daft with weakness