Of course, notwithstanding my most solemn warnings, the clodpate schooled his nerves until he fell asleep.

You're a shortsighted clodpate, Kilian!

He may succumb in the end, but he is almost always able to postpone the disaster a good deal longer than the average poor clodpate, or normal man.

Timothy Turnstone addresses flippant jibes to Justice Nicholas Clodpate in the first extant number of the Courant Tom Pen-Shallow quickly follows, with his mischievous little postscript: "Pray inform me whether in your Province Criminals have the Privilege of a Jury."