| 单词 | doddering |
| 例句 | She wanted to explain how right everything felt in a place where she was surrounded by mischievous children, overbearing cousins, and doddering elders who were all a part of her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I get up, sore all over, and start doddering barefoot for home. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Theon did not fear a doddering old man, but those watching archers and that line of knights were a different matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On May 17, it had taken him a doddering 1:49 to negotiate a mile, a time even slower than Seabiscuit’s. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Euclid, boys, mathematics would be a poor doddering thing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Out of my way, you doddering old fool,” he panted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The streets were deserted, except for an occasional old man or woman doddering about. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suicide....God Almighty, that doddering old fool of a coroner got the jury to say suicide. You and I know it wasn't suicide, don’t we?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Writing is something you can do well into your doddering years and possibly improve at with age and experience. 9 reasons not having kids is the best decision I ever made 2014-02-11T13:00:00Z He presents him as a vulnerable old fool but does not overplay his feebleness, doddering gait and sudden seizures of the heart. Don Pasquale; BBC Proms 6 & 8 – review 2013-07-20T23:05:54Z I’m not afraid to be alone.Let’s talk about those doddering years for a minute. 9 reasons not having kids is the best decision I ever made 2014-02-11T13:00:00Z Children watch your actions and see whether or not you’re a doddering fool. This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z That story was set in Spain, in the twilight of a doddering dictatorship. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z He was in no mood to ever fall behind, and he seemed to care not if the public saw him as a doddering artifact. Perspective | Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder. ‘Brian and Charles’ Review: I, Robot Wearing a Cardigan 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In smaller turns, Brown is diverting as various eccentric and doddering figures, and Kramer aces his portrait of a Holocaust survivor’sson. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In a taped monologue, he made himself out to be a doddering old man who couldn’t get his video camera to work. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Jack Hawkins's Tesman is not the doddering fusspot we used to get but a young, properly ambitious scholar. Hedda Gabler – review 2012-07-11T16:33:08Z Phil Hartman plays Ronald Reagan as a cunning and tireless taskmaster who pretends to be an affable, doddering old man when the press is present. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z I had no wish to be a doddering cliché. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In another contrast to the tight-wearing fairies of most productions, Puck and the others are outfit in pajamas, adding another layer of familiarity and doddering mortality to the proceedings. Aging Fairies Take the Stage in Shakespeare in the Park's A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “Senator, we run ads,” Zuckerberg replied, smiling cherubically, and video of this exchange instantly became a viral emblem for a doddering Congress. ‘There’s so many different things!’: How technology baffled an elderly Congress in 2018 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Give her credit for trying, but really, Sarandon as a doddering grandma? Review: McCarthy’s ‘Tammy’ misses the funny bone 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Richard Kiley remained throughout the entire run in the dual role of Don Quixote, a doddering gentleman knight with a grand imagination, and Quixote’s creator, the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Mitch Leigh, ‘Man of La Mancha’ Composer, Dies at 86 2014-03-16T15:38:15Z In other words, I modelled my characters on the two dominant cultural constructions of old age: the doddering, depressed pensioner and the ageless-in-spirit, quirky oddball. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The doddering symmetry of the plotline finds its visual equivalent in a couple of laboriously executed 360-degree pans — showy, difficult shots that represent one of Rollin’s rare attempts to be cinematic. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z Even at the age of 19 he played a doddering old man in JM Barrie's whimsical play Mary Rose for a weekly repertory company in Abergavenny. Dad's Army actor Clive Dunn dies 2012-11-07T16:39:49Z They don’t reduce their characters to what have become antediluvian caricatures: wholly sweet, or sharp-tongued, or doddering or dotty. Seasoned Actors Like Michael Caine and Lily Tomlin Dot Awards Field 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Later, Disney might have thrown in a dad or two for plot purposes, but they tended toward elderly and doddering, like Jasmine’s father in “Aladdin.” Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? An Investigation 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z His doddering is like power walking; he shunts his hips to pivot. Dance Review: Megan Fairchild and Tiler Peck Lead ‘Coppélia’ Casts 2014-02-17T23:17:19Z It is still, depending on your preferences, a doddering throwback or an oasis of old-school rationality and calm. ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Review: More of the Same (Good) Thing 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Unhappily, that market segment also stayed away in their doddering droves. Cruise and Diaz worked Knight And Day but for which audience 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Meryl Streep, a winner for her portrayal of a doddering Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” made her victory look like a shock. ?The Artist? Wins Best Film at the Academy Awards 2012-02-27T05:27:18Z Pycelle seemed harmless, but the doddering old fool he pretended to be was an act. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Like the women, Steve seems doddering, confused, and older than his age: forgetting his wallet, unable to find Miranda in a public place. The antiquated homophobia of "And Just Like That" 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z This is why nobody was expecting the opening scene of "Top Gun: Maverick" to show the title character, say, doddering around his ailing daylily farm. No, "Top Gun" isn't an anti-woke success story, but rather a tribute to aging Tom Cruise and balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z She allayed male terrors by pretending to be infantile: she conversed in baby talk, and addressed the doddering, dribbling J Howard Marshall as "Paw-paw". Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z Cameron cast her white-bearded husband, Charles, a retired jurist 20 years her senior, as the wizard Merlin and a doddering King Lear. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z Even at the age of 19 he played a doddering old man in J M Barrie's whimsical play Mary Rose for a weekly repertory company in Abergavenny. Clive Dunn, young old man of Dad's Army, dies aged 92 2012-11-07T18:52:29Z There's gallows humor in Hagedorn's vision of doddering seniors as cokeheads and in her skewering of the literary types who beg the barely functioning Eleanor to appear in their reading series. Jessica Hagedorn's 'Toxicology' is a druggie disappointment 2011-04-27T22:00:05Z On this issue I have been casually slandering him for years for reasons involving political bias and having the memory of a doddering centenarian. Gene Weingarten: The shtruggle is real 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In Hungary, sitting in his makeup chair in the set of “Picasso,” Mr. Banderas said, “It’s hard to look into the mirror and see a doddering old man.” Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Sharper, more self-aware and less doddering than Jessie Mae thinks, she defiantly embarks on that journey to Bountiful — alone, vulnerable, ailing, with just a small suitcase and an uncashed pension check. Review: 'The Trip to Bountiful' is a poignant journey 2010-05-14T20:54:00Z Trump’s flubs haven’t stopped him from making fun of Biden, though they risk undermining Trump’s strategy of painting the president as doddering. Voters are skeptical of Biden’s age. But Trump’s notable flubs risk drawing unwelcome attention, too 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The mainstream media may not want to come right out and identify Trump as a doddering, dangerous fool, but most younger people know one when they see one. Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z In his opening statement, he referred to Rothman as “a doddering old fool” who had “developed extremely poor judgment.” What Happens when People with Dementia Commit Crimes? 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z He portrays himself as a doddering old man who is both daunted by his own disorganization and too dimwitted to understand this whole "subpoena" business. Trump goes with the "too stupid to know better" defense 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Attention must be paid to the core audience that has stuck it out and been filling these doddering old venues with their seasoned laughter and empathy. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Without a Democratic majority in the House, some sort of deal was necessary and Biden, caricatured by Republicans as a doddering old fool, proved once again to be the savviest guy in the room. Grinning and growling toward a debt ceiling deal | Horsey cartoon 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In a later interview with the conservative podcast “Ruthless,” Mr. McCarthy, who is 58, poked fun at Mr. Biden, adding to the caricature that the oldest president ever to serve in office is doddering. Biden and McCarthy Are on a Collision Course in a Divided Government 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z But "daddy brain" isn't really a neologism in the same way, which attests to the way that "mommy brain" can sometimes evoke a sexist stereotype of the doddering, forgetful new mother. It's time to reframe the narrative behind "mommy brain," scientists say 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Republicans have caricatured the president as a doddering old man, unable to assemble a string of coherent sentences. Four takeaways from Biden’s speech in Philadelphia. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Right-wing media, elected officials and Trump have hammered a message that the White House has struggled to combat: Biden and his policies are responsible for record inflation, and he's old, doddering and confused. Analysis: As Biden kicks off U.S. tour, some Democratic candidates want to keep their distance 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Instead, he is portrayed as both a dangerous radical and a doddering old fool by Fox News commentators, while, on CNN and MSNBC, the president is nearly invisible. Biden is talking but no one is listening 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party. Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Sadly, this will end up folding very neatly into their pre-existing narrative that Biden is a doddering old fool who can barely tie his shoes. Biden must prepare: Republicans' plan to exploit Ukraine for political gain — again 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z But these worries also have spread to voters in his own party and especially to independents, who worry he is losing steam, even if they don’t buy Fox News’ portrayal of him as doddering. Analysis: Biden's State of the Union speech aims to prove he has the strength to lead in turbulent times 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z This is not stupid incompetence or doddering senility. Biden’s administrative state launches war on America 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z It's a comforting story: that Trump is a doddering fool who is lost in a pathetic fantasy. There's nothing "delusional" about Donald Trump's conspiracy theories. They are working 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Brady looks more like his younger self than like a doddering old quarterback. Through Genetics, Luck or ‘Prehab,’ Tom Brady Endures at 43 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z She credulously absorbed the Republican attacks on the Democratic ticket, in which Mr. Biden was portrayed as doddering and Ms. Harris as a left-wing extremist. Trump’s Legacy: Voters Who Reject Democracy and Any Politics but Their Own 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z It depicted Clinton as a doddering invalid who was so incapacitated she couldn't handle foreign policy and national security. "Donald J. Trump defeats COVID": The absurd Soviet-style propaganda campaign around his illness 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z His campaign has circulated manipulated videos that make the former vice president appear doddering and incoherent. Opinion | Trump has laid a trap for the debate — but he’ll be the one to step into it 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z That's why Trump uses this drug charge — yes, they are doddering invalids, which is why they need all those drugs! Can Joe Biden defang Donald Trump on the debate stage? And does it even matter? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z "And maybe no one will notice that he's a doddering fool who can't control the mob on the streets or the mob in his own party." Laura Ingraham: Biden 'a doddering fool who can't control the mob on the streets or the mob in his own party' 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Wayne was 63 when the interview was published, well shy of the doddering stage. Column: John Wayne's heroism was fake. Take his name off Orange County's airport 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Trump and Biden are repugnant figures, doddering into old age with cognitive lapses and no moral cores. The one-choice election 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z What’s saddest of all is the idea that merging these two doddering old hulks may be the only way to save them. HP and Xerox: Can two dinosaurs carry each other into the high-tech future? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The Mail on Sunday’s leader calls him “a doddering, ill-educated Marxist”. If Boris Johnson quits, MPs should back Jeremy Corbyn to avoid no deal | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z That said, the big question was whether Biden — still far ahead in the polls — could rebound from a disastrous performance in June, when he seemed tentative, confused, almost doddering. Opinion | The Democratic debate makes one thing clear: It’s time to narrow the field 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But there he was: in the bright lights on national television sputtering, bumbling and doddering about some report these people kept talking about. House Democrats should be rounded up, arrest for elder abuse 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Central to the strategy for Trump, 73, is to try to paint the 76-year-old Biden as old and doddering, while hammering away at vulnerabilities in Biden’s past — the same cudgel Trump used against Clinton. 2016 redux? Trump attacks on Biden recall Clinton fight 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z He wasn’t a doddering old senile fool, either. I was groped by a man called “Mary”: The world changes but not the Catholic Church 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The old-timers, people now in their doddering 40s, are laughing at us. Mississippi editorial roundup 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In theory, the idea of a towering actor such as Nick Nolte playing a doddering granddad lost in a fog of Alzheimer’s disease is an intriguing choice. Review: 'Head Full of Honey' is a sticky sweet mess of a family drama 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “It is true that bigness is a curse and leads a company to become doddering and bad,” says Wu. It’s time to break up Facebook 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Three years back, the Yankees were a mausoleum tour bus, each season devoted to the retirement of a once fine and now doddering ballplayer. Victories in the Bronx and Delusion in Queens 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Aides released a photo of him pacing the corridors in a bathrobe, a visual reminder of his doddering irrelevance. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, is the most influential man in Palestine 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This doddering old coot and Trump can't keep their stories straight. Trump Repaid Cohen for Stormy Daniels Hush Money, Giuliani Says 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps if we were more aware of their triumphs, we might not be so quick to dismiss them as doddering aunts who need our simple explanations. "Elderly Woman" Is Not a Synonym for "Clueless Person" 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z “If there’s anything we’ve learned over the last year, he’s not going to change. He will continue to be a doddering bigot with a Twitter account.” Trump to mark anniversary with Mar-a-Lago bash as thousands get set to protest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In all the frenzy, doddering old House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi clamored over to the bright lights to declare through her unglued dentures that Mr. Miller — a Jew — is somehow a “white supremacist.” CNN’s Jake Tapper uses Stephen Miller incident to create buzz 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In an article called “Enlightened Chinese democracy puts the West in the shade”, it said the Western kind was “doddering”. Xi and Trump look friendly, but anti-US feeling stirs in China 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Xinhua contrasted the vigour of Mr Xi’s ideas with the problems of “doddering democracies”. China’s Communist Party has blessed the power of its leader 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Much of Puerto Rico lost power after Hurricane Irma passed just north of it this month, exposing the island’s doddering infrastructure and the severe challenges it faces amid a worsening economic crisis. Hurricane Maria Strikes and Puerto Rico Goes Dark 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Under heavier scrutiny than most everyone else, he persevered into what is in track and field sprinting doddering old age, and yet prevailed. ‘For Once, No One Was Upset. Truth Works.’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z So there was President Donald Trump this week with evangelical leaders laying hands on him, and granting a rare non-Fox interview to the doddering founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network. Trump’s pious and dangerous enablers 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Or maybe they were both just 70 and doddering their way into cluelessness. Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z The “Daily Show” parodied him as a doddering old man, dubbing in a voice that said: “Has anybody seen my dog? Has anyone seen my little Mr. Puddles?” The task in the next debate’s town hall setting: Connecting with voters 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z These are not just the doddering remnants of the Klan, though there are elements of that. Trump's rise draws white supremacists into political mainstream: 'I am winning,' says David Duke 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Wilder demanded that the quizzical confectioner first be seen hobbling, with a cane, like some doddering recluse, as he walks to the gate to greet the five children he’d be admitting to his fantastical factory. From 'Willy Wonka' to 'Stir Crazy': Remembering Gene Wilder through his five greatest performances 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The defense sought to portray the gang as pill-popping, doddering old men, with ailments such as diabetes and bladder-control problems, who had engaged in a nonviolent folly. Six Men Are Sentenced in Record Jewelry Theft in London 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The image of a doddering President Washington was a myth, but it served to comfort anxious Jeffersonians. The Real Relationship Between Washington and Hamilton 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It suggested that Cosby — a man who last year completed a rigorous national comedy tour in the face of mounting scandal — is doddering and fragile and incapable of moving through the world unassisted. Did Bill Cosby’s grandpa sweater make you feel bad for him? Why this con didn’t work. 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z It took the doddering president 47 minutes and over 5,000 words to answer just six questions. CHARLES HURT: Obama loses gift of speech in Paris; time to invoke 25th Amendment 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, for one, relies on the support of all those doddering rice farmers. Paddy-whacked 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But even that was a self-serving choice in hopes of breathing the faintest life into his doddering campaign. CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump talks tough against John McCain; American voters listen 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z To detractors, it’s evidence he’s a doddering quack. Chuck Grassley's Gavel Year 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Raphael Nash Thompson is a kindly, doddering Leonato who nearly collapses when his daughter is denounced at the altar. A Review of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Madison 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “To see Robert Pirès, very slow and doddering, playing in Goa is a kind of surreal, wonderful thing.” New Indian Soccer League Tries Glamour Approach 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z I am not a doddering half-century season-ticket holder who fears change. Take 2: UW's greed and the selling of Husky football traditions 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Relevant to Emanuel’s concern about descending into a doddering old age, the Torah relates that, while Moses’s years were advanced, his eyes remained undimmed and his vigor unabated. Why set a deadline on life? In going from Sterling to Ballmer, the Clippers are going from doddering to dynamic, from entitled to empowered, from punch line to prideful. Steve Ballmer can't wait to get started with Clippers 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z That decision, and the occasional oddball question from the bench, earned the justices a reputation as doddering technophobes who need law clerks or grandchildren to work their televisions. On the Next Docket: Facebook, Rap Lyrics and Free Speech 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Until now, it was treated like a doddering loved one: At the age of 102, it could be forgiven a few foibles — the starchy waiters, that hopeless tangle of streets at its Sunset Boulevard entrance. Brunei Ownership Casts a Shadow on a Hollywood Hotel 2014-05-10T00:35:22Z So how to explain the deference of total strangers lately to what they apparently perceive to be my doddering old age? The New Old Age Blog: What, Me Old? 2014-04-04T22:13:29Z When we are children and doddering we mostly take and in between we are taken from/give. Obamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution 2014-01-29T17:29:55Z I hated to think it, but he seemed doddering, unfocused, in short, old. Memories of Mandela 2013-12-06T04:09:58Z It invites a re-examination of the rights and privileges of any paper-pushing bureaucrats, petty tyrants and doddering blockheads who happen to be occupying managerial positions. The Copernician Revolution In Management 2013-07-11T20:20:00Z His doddering, bumbling L/Cpl Jones was the very epitome of comic decrepitude. Clive Dunn and the art of playing older people 2012-11-08T14:34:20Z In a book she wrote after visiting the United States in 1998 and successfully representing a Chinese company in a civil trial, she ridiculed the American justice system as doddering and inept. Murder Trial of Chinese Official’s Wife Begins and Concludes 2012-08-10T13:50:20Z But when I compare him to other 88-year-olds, he is not doddering.” Another Side of Robert Mugabe 2012-05-23T08:45:00Z Sun on the moat of the town’s doddering fortress, on the plumed helmets of its entry guards. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Did you think of—" "They don't want doddering old men of forty-three, and there is no need. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z Many a younger and prettier face had caught Louis' doddering fancy, since her death. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z She introduced him to the white-haired man, her father, who first made a bow full of old-fashioned dignity and then gave Pavel’s cold hand a doddering grasp. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z “He is 88 years old, he is old and frail, but he is not doddering,” Coltart, who also serves as a senator in the government, told The Daily Beast in an interview. Another Side of Robert Mugabe 2012-05-23T08:45:00Z Let me through that window, you doddering fool! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z "Root," shrieked Emily, as she guided the stuff through the doddering jaws of the machine. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He is the slightly doddering teacher who’s been around forever, meanders through the hour and yet holds the class rapt. Politics Up Close and Almost Personal 2012-01-09T02:18:11Z He was certainly a doddering old figure as he stood there—shrunken in the face, bent in the body, his few white hairs tumbled in the wind. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Crofts protested in a doddering collapse, and vanished like a ghost at cockcrow. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Yet he is represented at the Bijou Theatre as a doddering weakling! Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z A murmur of delighted anticipation ran round the Exquisite Mob while Sir Jeremy Dummer who was verging on nonagenarian antiquity drew himself up very erect, quivering and doddering with senile pride. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The real reason is probably more like they’re a bunch of doddering old men whose ideas about women in sports are even more dated than they are. Column: Female boxers have come too far to wear skirts in Olympics 2011-11-20T23:48:46Z I know none now—no cup—but the uninspiring cocoa—which I carry with a more and more doddering hand. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The old man did nothing unbecoming to his caste, but he stood doddering and longed to die in place of that beautiful youth. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z You ask me as though I was a doddering old gentleman, crippled with rheumatism. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z You see that fence, which is in rather a doddering condition--it forms the boundary line between Exham Park and Oak Dene, a fact which I have a particular reason to remember. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z He hung on stubbornly, fighting off countless attempts to lead him gracefully into his retirement, even as he became more doddering mascot than football coach. Sports of The Times: Joe Paterno?s Grand Experiment Meets an Inglorious End 2011-11-09T01:59:50Z What do you care if your titles be disputed by a doddering committee on privileges in the House of Lords? The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Pexton, like most newspaper ombudsmen, is a doddering scold with a poor grasp of the complexities of the contemporary media landscape. There is just enough Ron Paul coverage, thank you 2011-08-29T18:45:00Z "What ails the doddering old fool now?" he growled irritably as he read Muller's appeal. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z Then, with despite, my cheeks wax white, My doddering brain gets weak and giddy, My eyes o'erflow with tears which show That passion melts my vitals, Liddy! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z She was immediately under the port galleries, within half a cable's length, doddering along under foresail and mainsail. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z If, on the other hand, he has gone beyond that age we see only a doddering literary future for him. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Because the man himself, with his blundering, doddering fears, brings it about. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Do you think me a doddering fool—a weak imbecile? The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Since then the fire has found all sorts of fuel, from the Arab street’s desire for democracy to its revulsion at doddering kleptocrats. Schumpeter: Uncorking enterprise 2011-02-24T10:45:13Z Many local residents credit Mubarak with their prosperity and tend to talk about the ex-president more like a doddering, isolated father than a heavy-handed dictator. Mubarak's retreat a far cry from the real Egypt 2011-02-15T16:46:34Z I clambered to my feet behind her, cursing mentally the harmless, hospitable, doddering old fellow approaching, and singing a p�an of rejoicing in my soul at the same time. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z "Men, men, what forgotten age have you stepped out of that you come to me with such driveling, doddering, blank idiocy?" The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Every sane and law-abiding Englishman, from the small clerk to the most doddering duke, has begun to organize and this mighty revolution of yours is already as dead as mutton.” The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z He became an emblem of doddering truancy, a living symbol of the soul which desires ever to flee responsibilities and to shirk the onus of labour inherited from Father Adam. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z After my biopsy, it appeared that I had a Stage 1 cancer, a doddering old nag that the authors would have designated for active surveillance. A Rush to Operating Rooms That Alters Men's Lives 2010-08-30T21:11:00Z Even when he is old or frail, irresponsible or doddering, his followers worship him and, when his corporeal form eventually passes away, they eagerly await the discovery of the Dalai's new incarnation. 2010-02-04T22:40:00Z Thompson uses the expression "doddering mast" in his description of a storm, while Dryden writes of a rotting "doddar'd oke" falling piecemeal to the ground. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources There must be other things besides money and social position in this doddering old world, after all!” The Valiants of Virginia A jerk of his doddering head indicated Billings' room. The Haunted Pajamas Von-der-Goltz with his spectacles an inch thick and nothing living within what he carries about on his two doddering old legs! The Moonlit Way No detail escaped him and every detail confirmed the growing belief that he, Captain Griffith, was a doddering imbecile. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus If there is any library that cannot answer these questions affirmatively, its librarians are doddering their lives away in useless activity, and receiving a salary without rendering any real service in return. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses I ought to wring the neck of that doddering old fool marshal. The Broken Gate A Novel The music had started again and one after another couples seemed to float past in unhesitating hesitation—dowager and d�butante, dandy and doddering octogenarian. The Social Gangster He told himself frankly what he thought of the old man's work—his "brush doddering," he nerved himself to call it. Ewing\\'s Lady The doddering old seneschal had already told her about the Utalian. Quest of the Golden Ape The old strong towers are crumbled and doddering now and sit like old men smiling in the sun. A Pushcart at the Curb Philosophers, in their slow and doddering way, may question the exact part played by heredity in the formation of human character. Little Aliens That she should have any affection for the doddering, gormandizing old man--he was nearly fifty--was hardly to be expected. Roman Women Franklin was no doddering Polonius, looking for advantage where others could have none. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 While the doddering old king was wrestling with his metres, the commander-in-chief, true to the compact made the previous night, was having an interview with Rahmut Khan. Barclay of the Guides "If you ask me, only a doddering fool would bring these things into a space ship." Feline Red "Crying!" said the man sharply, and without another word he strode after the doddering old woman, who had knowingly turned even as she spoke. The Song of the Wolf But after that it becomes merely a hopeless, doddering love affair ending by his returning to Earth with his fair one by his side. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 Lyon had equipped some 10,000 Missourians from the Arsenal and sent most of the rest of the arms across the river into Illinois, Frost seems to have suddenly become doddering. The Struggle for Missouri And that doddering old idiot daren't throw him out, but slinks off. Ditte: Girl Alive! Nor is she the woman to make me forget my manhood and pride, to tumble me down doddering at her feet and gibbering like an ape. The Kempton-Wace Letters To the careless passer, it was a gray, bald, doddering old structure that seemed trying to shrink into the ground, untenanted, unsightly, and forlorn. Old Plymouth Trails “Why not keep him with us here a prisoner?” suggested an old buck; only to be cried down loudly as a doddering dotard, whose blood had turned to water. The Wilderness Trail Hayden came in to me from the card-room adjoining, where he had been watching the admiral doddering over his eternal game. Seven Keys to Baldpate She went home to get supper ready for the doddering idiot. Ditte: Girl Alive! Ain’t it funny,” she chattered hysterically, “him doddering the way he does about her, and her freezing the life out of him?” In the Heart of a Fool A rather decrepit looking black fly was doddering about a cat-tail stalk at the edge of the pond. The Shepherd of the North My father's doddering Brooklynites seemed wonderful neighbors to his young wife. The Harbor “I think so; he’s a doddering nuisance they tell me.” The Gorgeous Girl In a second I would have exchanged my youth for the position of this doddering old nobleman who spat blood into a napkin. The O'Ruddy A Romance It was the doddering query of an old man. A Breath of Prairie and other stories He had a perfect four for the first hole, to Major Jennings's imperfect and doddering seven. It, and Other Stories An instant later, on the darkened porch without, he had the arm of the doddering old man in the grip of a vise. The Dominant Dollar I suppose; but we’ll be doddering idiots some day, 140 too. The Gorgeous Girl One man would say that Christianity was so harmful that extermination was the least that could be desired for it, and another would insist that it had reached a harmless and doddering old age. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study You're at Waroona Downs in bed, and Mrs. Burke and that old idiot of a doddering Irishman are looking after you. The Rider of Waroona “It is from some doddering old 64 woman,” he said. Ladies-In-Waiting Then he decided to make the great secret known to the people, and the doddering old man thought if he would do this in an unusual way, his subjects would have no doubts. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends “You doddering imbecile,” said I, “come on up to Sandy.” Penguin Persons & Peppermints "That I'm either as big a liar as he says you are or a fool—a doddering fool." Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated It was no longer a doddering 66 old man who faced the stranger, but a sturdy youth, muscular, brave and always eager for the fray. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters For the doddering old councilors of the late king I substituted men whom I selected from among those of the city's prominent business men who cared to serve. The Fire People All the rest of her life she would have to meet that doddering old Mr. Mosely, who was unavoidably bearing down on her now, and be held by him in long, meaningless talks. The Job An American Novel I hear from the Brigade that some doddering idiot has cut our wire. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Children like this girl are amusing, but only unsophisticated boys and doddering old men fall in love with them. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block There also, as at Terracina, ancient and doddering men acted as chambermaids. A Tramp's Notebook I must have a council, too—not doddering old men, but others that we shall select. The Fire People Maps, he declared, were made by doddering fools Who knew no better or defied the rules, While he, the great Progressive, traced the course Of waters mostly flowing to their source. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 If she could do that, I don't see why I couldn't write better advice to boys than a doddering old man who has only his recollections to draw on. Mary Ware's Promised Land "Don't blame it on me, you doddering old fossil!" flung back Given. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block "I got bitten with the notion of speeding you up a bit," he said, "because I felt plumb sure that there wasn't a live man in the place, nothing but a crowd of doddering hop-toads." General John Regan The doddering in the case was not confined to that individual. Pickwickian Studies Old Jasper, with his hot hands in his pockets and with a sick expression of countenance was doddering about the sitting room. Old Ebenezer A couple of oldsters, doddering and incompetent gargoyles, were fed and cared for by the younger beast-men. The Devil's Asteroid But in truth I think thee something more than fool to let thyself be thus caught doddering by the way. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain I'm going to get some one's ear at Washington, some day, if it's not till I'm a doddering old man. The Forbidden Trail On Smiggers’ right is a “doddering” old fellow of between seventy and eighty—clearly a “nullity”—on his left, another member nearly as old, but with a glimmer of intelligence. Pickwickian Studies The poor old church is in need of something young and lively; now and then it seems to me to be fairly doddering. The Brentons The poor doddering old fellow, sobered by this awful announcement, looked helplessly at the window. Prudence Says So The native pointed with pride to two doddering ancients hobbling painfully down the village street, and informed the stranger: "Them fellers is the Dusenbury twins—ninety-eight year old!" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers This time he had played it upon poor old doddering Brother Ibbetson. Brother Copas Of course, my dear critic, the ancient Aryans were just doddering—the old duffers: or babbling, the babes. Fantasia of the Unconscious I'm right old in years, ma'am, and I'm doddering, I expect, but I reckon I knows as much as that po' moon chile o' Hope's. A Son of the Hills If it is, by the same token it can grow old, can become a doddering, senile thing, and finally die and be buried with all the honors due its long, useful life. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques He was found doddering and constantly in tears. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Now beat it up that alley to the stage entrance, you doddering idiot!' he says. Blister Jones Since then the stucco and timber place had been closed, with no one but a doddering old caretaker and a gardener or two about the premises, until early that last hot August week. Then I'll Come Back to You He stigmatised Wordsworth as a doddering old man, not knowing that his return to nature was the greatest revolution in English literature. The Loom of Youth She became deeply enamoured of a splendid, earnest young chap named Braden Thorpe, grandson of the wealthy and doddering Templeton Thorpe, and recognised as his sole heir. From the Housetops "Oh, shut up, you doddering old fool!" he shouted. The Edge of the Knife If she loved a man, there would be no silly doddering; the voice of the petty laws that strove to hedge her in would be in her ears as a summer breeze. Parrot & Co. "Come here, you doddering idiot, and take my horse." The Miller Of Old Church The little jade would have warned him if she had known; but it is known only to the doddering old miser and me, and the girl is safe in her bed-room. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady While Braden was experimenting in London, this doddering, senile old gentleman of Washington Square began to experiment a little on his own account. From the Housetops Flamboyant youth, calculating middle age, doddering senility, all these were there, all treading on one another's heels, to reap and be reaped. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 I admit that he exercises over me a certain indefinable fascination; but when he is out of sight it amounts to the sum of all this doddering and doubting. Parrot & Co. These doddering fools should serve him, thinking the while that they served themselves. The Adventures of Kathlyn They were—Johnson and Alexander Armstrong—and the old chaplain who had been Michael's father's tutor and was now an almost doddering old nonentity also stood waiting in his white surplice at the altar rails. The Man and the Moment You do not for an instant suspect that I love this doddering old man, do you? From the Housetops You mean to say," said Gilbert, "that you took seriously what my doddering old uncle said? The Bad Man I wonder what the lout comes doddering about here for. The Romance of the Coast It gave him the whip hand over the doddering council. The Adventures of Kathlyn I tied that cord I had to one of the doddering old cornices to start with. The Palace of Darkened Windows The fact that he was the man who had bumped into Thomas that night at the theater may have had something to do with her doddering. The Voice in the Fog "Alack-a-day! that a doddering old woman like me should be so afraid to die," she thought, half ashamed of her weakness. Jerusalem LL.D. habit, and has become, so far as Literature is concerned, a mere colossal, kindly, doddering Old Age Pension from a few gentlemen in Stockholm. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy "Does that doddering old dancing-master of yours behave himself?" The Firing Line The priest was a doddering old fellow, almost deaf, for the turnkey shouted at his ear, and dim of sight, for he stooped close to look at the dying man, who was beyond confession. Lazarre Yes, for my nerve is diseased and I am a coward, an infamous, doddering old coward, sir. The Colossus A Novel "Never mind," said Mark, "we'll take our final vows together when Brother Lawrence is still a doddering old novice." The Altar Steps Carmichael was right; he was a doddering fool. The Goose Girl She profoundly disapproved of Emmy's marriage to Septimus, whom she characterized as a doddering idiot. Septimus So I saw nothing sensible was to be had out of him, and I left him there, doddering. Somewhere in Red Gap The old, curious, doddering gossip of 405the Roman street is not less alive than the Cardinal, and the clever pushing Curato; and around them are heard the buzz of talk, the movement of the crowd. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Others, again, seemed afflicted with what old Matthew Branthwaite called "doddering" and a fit of the "gapes." The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance "Any old dug-out," said the man with the thin face, "any old doddering Colonel Newcome, is preferred to you in that matter...." Mr. Britling Sees It Through As for the University—if it could turn out a doddering idiot like Septimus, it was criminal to send any young man to such a seat of unlearning. Septimus Nobody listened to the doddering old wretch, but I caught brother winking at him behind mother's back. Somewhere in Red Gap He was doddering along, his hands behind his back, and his nose in the air, followed by a small but increasing crowd of the natives, who crept stealthily behind at a considerable distance. In the Wrong Paradise Then with despite my cheeks wax white, My doddering brain gets weak and giddy, My eyes o'erflow with tears which show That passion melts my vitals, Liddy! Echoes from the Sabine Farm When you come to doddering, Jacob, it's better to dodder in the paths you know. Lady Rose's Daughter All the churches and all the vicars and all the archbishops couldn't have made that man anything else than a doddering idiot! Septimus What harm do you imagine a doddering old fool like this could do to any one? The Lamp in the Desert Old Alresford, too, was fast doddering off the stage, and then where would she be—without Alresford House, or Busbridge, or those various other pedestals which had hitherto held her aloft? Marcella But sometimes a Man is not all in, simply because he looks to be wrinkled and doddering. People You Know His white tie and hat of sober silk are in respectable contrast with his air of fatuousness—the Marquis of Steyne en route; the doddering hero of Mansfield in A Parisian Romance, or Baron Hulot. Promenades of an Impressionist And Carden, looking straight into his face, did not know the old man, who turned to Dr. Hollis again with many mysterious nods of his doddering head. The Tracer of Lost Persons Every moment you were getting older and stiffer; every moment was bringing nearer the moment when young men would reply curtly to their doddering elders: "Jos Myatt—who was 'e?" The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories I merely want to warn you that if you persist in this pose of tender solicitude for your doddering old mother, I'll—I'll present you with a stepfather a year younger than you. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock I'm a fool," he growled; "a doddering old fool. A Spinner in the Sun The dust and sun of the motor ride, the constant anxiety lest they might run over some doddering old woman or some heedless child, had given her a headache. Kimono I cannot realize, and become terribly weak and doddering. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Pretty soon, a little doddering figure of a man came to the door, pulling on his breeches with trembling hands as he stepped, barefooted, on the bare ground which came right up to the door-sill. Vandemark's Folly For all Old Ham was so shrewd at the Yards, he was one of those fellows who begin losing their common-sense at the office door, and who reach home doddering and blithering. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son You doddering idiots, I'd shoot your heads off for two bits I Try to rob a countryman, will you? The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On When I got home I happened to say to Mother: 'I saw poor old Biddy Maloney doddering round that wretched field as I came along'. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life He went so far as to call Saunders a doddering fool and a great many other things that Saunders had not in the least expected. The Man from Brodney's I took it from her, and my doddering fingers dropped it into the stream. The Purple Cloud But there's no use shilly-shallying and doddering with people who ask questions and favors they have no right to ask. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son I'd be a doddering old man before I got through—thirty years old. Mary Wollaston Dignified and doddering old men who had never consented to sit to any one could not withstand this dynamic little stranger. Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling. Love of Life and Other Stories Only old Japp can stick it out, and he's too old and doddering to care about moving. Prester John In fact, while Galloway was doddering on and on with his fake moralities, Norman was thinking of his own affairs, was wondering at his indifference about Dorothy. The Grain of Dust Verena was a poor old widow, doddering and shiftless: Charity suspected that she came for her keep. Summer One night while we were away that old numskull Thornbury was doddering about the passages very late. The Voyage Out The foul fiends of madness have possessed this doddering idiot. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Grave fears about the loss of that all- important missive to Terry haunted him, for the postmaster was a doddering old fellow who was quite apt to forget his head. Black Jack "Oh, the fool—the silly, doddering, abject old fool!" The Four Faces A Mystery The porter came in presently with a doctor—a little old grey-headed man, who wore spectacles, and had an ancient doddering manner not calculated to inspire beholders with any great belief in his capacity. The Lovels of Arden Near the end of the broad walk he met the usual doddering but amiable oldest inhabitant. The Forest Midget is cruelly deprived of her chum, and so for one day she is going to put up with a doddering old gentleman instead. Marjorie's New Friend Only Truth is more elusive than the maiden and may continue to beckon her follower for long years, no matter how gray and doddering he may become. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform That invincible world power full of doddering senility! Shallow Soil When you’re a white-haired old man you’ll go doddering about, gassing to your grandchildren, poor kids, how you ‘discovered’ M. Jackson. Mike Her dull eyes and doddering head promised for her. We Can't Have Everything "You babble like the poor, doddering imbecile you appear—my name is Haredale!" Peregrine's Progress I said I wanted something to drink!" he thundered, "but don't stand there all night doddering. The City of Fire I told hurriedly of the appearance of the figure upon the stone table on the previous evening, but before I had time to tell of the note, the doddering old imbecile interrupted. The White Waterfall Here, advancing toward us with the gait of a doddering grandsire, would be a boy in his teens, bent double and clutching his middle with both hands. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front Do not be too sure that we have learned our lesson, and are not at this very moment doddering down some brimstone path. Courage This tottering, doddering, slobbering, sniffling old man is in love—he is about to wed a young, beautiful girl. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others We stuffed the loot into a grip I'd brought for the purpose, and beat it--slipped out through the drawing-room window one second before Madame de Montalais came back with that doddering footman of hers. Alias the Lone Wolf Be quick about it, then; and don't tire me out with your eternal doddering. Aunt Jane's Nieces "I suppose we'll go on hanging up our stockings after we're doddering old grandparents," Mrs. Lee had laughed, though there was a suspicion of tears in her eyes. Keineth ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering among the pots and dods. Tales of the Jazz Age I'm a doddering lunatic, incapable of thinking of anything but you. King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays He is a doddering old reprobate who will spread news instead of gather it. The Net "We'll be doddering old men by the time they get through," added Tom. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs If you want me to be frank, I'll say that it is because your doddering father-in-law is getting to be worse than a gossipy old maid. The Desired Woman He was seated in his chair, still doddering feebly. What's Bred in the Bone Among those present—to use the correct phrase," said Billy, after having refreshed himself with sufficient champagne to proceed; "were two retired merchants, a venerable logician, a doddering banker, and a half-blind college professor. Jane Cable It beats the deuce how childer as young as they are can have discovered what a doddering fool their uncle is. Green Fancy In an English hunting-field many a doddering old man, when he is once firmly seated in his familiar saddle, can give points to the youngsters at the game. Through the Magic Door Far back in the interior of an Empire block I came upon an old, old negro woman, parchment-skinned and doddering, living alone in a stoop-shouldered shanty of boxes and tin cans. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Through open doors he saw here and there aged women or doddering old men who were guardians of dirty babes who tumbled about on the bare floors. The Landloper But at that moment he seemed a bit doddering. Aaron's Rod The old grey managers, the old grey clerks, the doddering old pensioners, he looked at them, and removed them as so much lumber. Women in Love They passed back through the garden and out through the hall where the doddering porter was pinning up a hall notice in the frame. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "Will you hold your old doddering tongue, Caleb, and let the gentlefolk speak!" Herb of Grace Swinging the said pack on his arm, he sauntered through the entrance hall to the row of waiting taxi-cabs, and selected the oldest and most doddering driver. Huntingtower Evidently the likeness which had imposed at close quarters on a doddering old man was good enough to mislead younger eyes at a short distance. The Chronicles of Clovis He was so particular in this that, observing one day an old man doddering about with a basket, he would not go in till he had taken a look at him. A Woman-Hater I don't mind her treating me as if I was a doddering old gentleman so long as she keeps Gilbert off.... Who Cares? a story of adolescence The front door was open, so we rushed in and hurried from room to room to the amazement of a doddering old manservant, who met us in the passage. The Hound of the Baskervilles I followed him up a marble stairway and a doddering old English butler opened the door for us. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country He kicked Joe till the pain broke through the poor devil's bliss and brought him doddering to his feet. The Son of the Wolf But, always doddering behind him, were the two old people, strenuous to be of help to him. Active Service "Colonel Myddelton, this doddering old fool tells me," said the Captain, indicating Digger, "is away." The Slowcoach He had squirmed at the picture his new friend had so ruthlessly drawn with crude words, but bold, of doddering old age. The Trail of the White Mule She had been doddering, and his own act had thrust her into the arms of that old thoroughbred. The Drums of Jeopardy I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution. Michael, Brother of Jerry His power of dodging, leaping, and fighting would have been amazing in a lad of seventeen, and in this doddering old vicar looked like a sort of farcical fairy-tale. The Club of Queer Trades She was moved on by every policeman, and it required an average of six moves to send her doddering off one man’s beat and on to another’s. The People of the Abyss He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The ant, which for many years served as a model of intelligence and industry in the school-readers, has been proven to be a doddering idiot and a waster of time and effort. Options I have been at the seaside—enjoying it, yes, but in what a doddering, senile sort of way! The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft I did not want to go and see a political widow, and a captain who collected apes; I wanted to hear what had brought this dear, doddering old vicar into relation with immediate perils. The Club of Queer Trades Dignified and doddering old men, who had never consented to sit to any one, could not withstand this dynamic little stranger. Seven Men Six months had passed, and he was coming back as a weak, broken, shattered, doddering, infirm old man of eighty. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable O-Tar called me 'doddering fool' and I would face worse dangers than lie in the forbidden chambers of O-Mai to know it if he does not visit the chamber of O-Mai. The Chessmen of Mars They say one king is doddering and grey. The Congo and Other Poems Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now! The Chessmen of Mars |
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