"Harebrained" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instant admission. With no small wonder he received his master's commands to admit the holy man immediately; and, having previously manned the entrance to guard against surprise, he obeyed, without further scruple, the commands which he had received. The harebrained self-conceit which had emboldened Wamba to undertake this dangerous office, was scarce sufficient to support him when he found himself in the presence of a man so dreadful, and so much dreaded, as Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... extremity of the existing mode. A quantity of lace and embroidery made their habits rather fine than tasteful. In a word, they were dressed in that caricature of the fashion, which sometimes denotes a harebrained man of quality who has a mind to be distinguished as a fop of the first order, but is much more frequently in the disguise of those who desire to be esteemed men of rank on account of their dress, having no other pretension ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... Morley. A couple of my harebrained kids have come up with an idea that makes sense and looks like it might salvage a lot of lost water. But we've got to move on it right now if ...
— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael
... who had now entirely recovered from his swoon, "you are too like in character to your friend Dunois, not to do him justice. It was indeed I that dragged him hither, most unwillingly, upon an enterprise of harebrained passion, suddenly and rashly undertaken.—Look on me all who will," he added, rising up and turning to the soldiery, "I am Louis of Orleans, willing to pay the penalty of my own folly. I trust the ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... River!" shouted the harebrained Doughby. "A fine country for wild-ducks and geese, and alligators too. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various
... it, for it's rather important," added Oaklands; "but I need not caution you, you are not one of the harebrained sort; if it had been my ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... it was not a disgrace but a removal to another spot. However, he had been scolded and was watched, as he said; and he was much ashamed of it, and very unhappy at being only able to give alms by stealth, much like some harebrained prodigal ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola |
