Jeffrey Tambor, as the alien-obsessed dastard who's lured Gonzo to his government compound, is an early-' 80s throwback and a logical substitute for Dabney Coleman's corporate henchmen.
12.
"W�ng b �skQ " originally got switched over from another " ?_ kQ w�ng b " ( one that referred to any very unvirtuous individual ) because of a man with the family name W�ng �s who picked up the nickname ʌ�skQ z�i W�ng b ( " the thieving Wang Eight " ) but for being a dastard, not for being a bastard.
13.
Twenty-five years later, Hazlitt looks back in astonishment that, in the interval, Godwin's reputation " has sunk below the horizon, and enjoys the serene twilight of a doubtful immortality . " " The Spirit of the Age ", he declares in the opening sentence, " was never more fully shown than in its treatment of this writer its love of paradox and change, its dastard submission to prejudice and to the fashion of the day ."
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A poem by an anonymous poet, written after the murder of Owain in France by an English agent, suggests that many Welshmen were expecting him and that steeds and arms had been prepared for his coming : " Watching the beaches in ( our ) youth, / / Buying swift steeds . . . / / And arms ready for battle . / But then coldness came upon us, / Though we looked for Rhodri's grandson . / We lamented when he came not : / He was slain, killed by a dastard ."
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Hooker's " blood boiled, I felt myself a dastard; now I saw my advantage I swore to myself I would smite that Amalekite Sam hip and thigh ", ( he was invited up to the platform and ) " there and then I smacked him amid rounds of applause . . . proceeded to demonstrate . . . that he could never have read your book . . . wound up with a very few observations on the . . . old and new hypotheses . . . Sam was shut up . . . and the meeting was dissolved forthwith leaving you [ Darwin ] master of the field after 4 hours battle ."
