harebrain

Example Sentences

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In the back of my mind was ever that harebrain resolve, half-formed as yet but none the less firmly rooted in my head.

From The Man with the Clubfoot by Williams, Valentine

Henceforth they kept their thoughts to themselves, although some muttered, under their breath such epithets as "fool" and "harebrain."

From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman

So, at last, it was determined, and we set out on that wonderful harebrain excursion of which the very memory gives me a thrill.

From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

I suppose they also handed on to me a harebrain humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

“I’ve no place to go but Greenwood, and now they threat to take my lass to New York over this harebrain scrape she’s got us all into.”

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester