| 单词 | dotage |
| 例句 | They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in his lively dotage, Wexler was taking on his own union, beseeching them to remove the bylaw about not employing anyone “dedicated to the overthrow of the United States government”. Haskell Wexler, the genius cinematographer committed to the left 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z She wore her trademark jacket well into her dotage. Chanel's Little Black Jacket: how Lagerfeld reinvented tweed 2012-10-12T15:58:32Z But without him, and after him, Hepburn was as defiant in her dotage as she had been in her youth. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z When asked if he is really in his dotage, he laughs and assures, "I am in full dotage." Jules Feiffer dances with noir in his graphic novel 'Kill My Mother' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “I look forward to watching him in the theater when I’m in my dotage,” she said. Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z "Going full circle in your dotage is nothing but fun." Jules Feiffer dances with noir in his graphic novel 'Kill My Mother' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It had a sleeping porch and a ship-like attic where I in my dotage would pull objects from a trunk and tell their histories to little ones. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z And the terrible questions: “Was he already getting close to his devastating dotage, when he would become increasingly helpless?” Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z The elusive Smiley, found and asked what book he’s reading: “Oh my dear boy, don’t even ask. An old spy in dotage seeks the truth of ages.” Review | At 85, John le Carré emerges with a sequel to ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Her public prominence has always been based not on any accomplishment of her own but on her marriage to a charismatic politician, now in his dotage. “Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z If nothing else, it minimizes the social interaction of a concert, which is not to be sneezed at in the dotage of civil society and the age of “Bowling Alone.” Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z In my dotage, I find the effort and vim involved in five people trying to keep a joke afloat almost as charming as the joke itself. Radio review: Showstoppers 2011-01-20T07:59:01Z We grew up in the shadow of the baby boomers, who still manage, in their dotage, to commandeer disproportionate attention. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z The year after leaving Coronation Street for good, Alexander made a guest appearance in the BBC’s long-running sitcom about northern gents in their dotage, Last of the Summer Wine. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z This is certainly not bucolic dotage like many of his peers. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z The difference is, women are usually shown as responding to impending dotage by changing their looks, while men respond by changing their behavior. Movie Review: 'Handsome Harry' Shows Aging Men 2010-04-15T13:21:00Z I would much rather gently be eased into my dotage on a fantastic show than have them say, 'Oh, she was cute back in the day.' The rise of TV's "Anti-Mom" 2010-06-07T05:40:00Z The Iron Lady received criticism in some quarters for initially portraying Thatcher in her dotage as a forgetful old woman suffering from dementia. Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe' 2013-04-09T09:19:56Z Indeed, in my dotage, it’s entirely possible that I’ll now look back on the accumulated years I’ve spent on subway platforms and airport tarmacs as the good years, the salad years. What Isn’t There an App for? 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z As they continue into their dotage, we owe them a debt of thanks. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z The Lavers were white sneakers that were not a white flag to the steady march of dotage. Adidas Brings Back Rod Lavers, Beloved Shoe of a Sneaker Niche 2014-04-09T20:43:42Z Three years later, my friend still believes that Harper Lee was tricked, in her dotage, into shredding the image of perhaps the only white Alabamian other than Helen Keller to be admired around the world. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Her bizarre behavior became more pronounced in her dotage. ‘Empty Mansions’: preying on the pocketbook of an heiress 2013-08-28T22:21:51Z I still needed to offset the fluttery anticipation of giving a 30-minute speech, so I imagined that I was on a preliminary search for a retirement community in which to spend my dotage. Joining Toastmasters to Overcome a Fear of Public Speaking 2013-12-24T21:13:15Z Charles took over the family business well past normal retirement age, while Amis was denied the illustrious dotage that great writers deserve. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Please stay healthy and prosperous as you finance my dotage. Gene Weingarten: Millennials, maybe you’re right about us baby boomers 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z She also looks a lot like Bette Davis, so much so that Davis herself, in her dotage, approached Sarandon to play her. Susan Sarandon: ‘I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war’ 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z In her dotage, Walters lost some of her edge and opened herself to criticism of being too gentle or too allied with her subjects. Barbara Walters retires: So long to one of America’s last great listeners on TV Perhaps in dotage anything is possible, but this turn of events is unlikely. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Carr is in his dressing gown and his dotage when we first meet him, thinking up ways to transform this improbable slice of history into a book. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z We meet Bob in his dotage; retired from life as a librarian, he stumbles into a new sense of purpose as a senior-center volunteer. Books about books are catnip for avid readers. This week there's a bumper crop 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z However, she said the North wouldn’t simply dismiss his words as a “nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage.” N. Korea insults Biden, slams defense agreement with Seoul 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now. Review | Broadway’s ‘& Juliet’ pops with a cheeky supply of snap and crackle 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z That’s why some version of “retirement” may be available to you even if you haven’t socked away much for your dotage. Think retirement is out of reach? Here's what you need to know 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s astonishing how little tension or even momentary menace Trevorrow is able to mine from individual action sequences, how tame even T. rex now seems in its late-franchise dotage. Review: Overlong franchise finale ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ falls short of veloci-rapture 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He would never allow himself to slip into a satisfied baseball dotage. In one of his last interviews, Jackie Robinson explained why he was not happy with baseball or the Dodgers 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z People above the age of 50 and/or in retirement aren’t worried about the cost of eggs now, but are petrified that they won’t have enough money to afford breakfast in their dotage. Don’t cut investment ‘flowers’ without looking at the whole garden 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z "I have no issue with ex-boxers, who have produced so much excitement and entertainment down the years, earning money in their dotage. It just doesn't make the spine tingle," said BBC Radio 5 Live's Costello. 'Risk & confusion on a quirky boxing night' 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z I have learned in my dotage how to make a quality film on a low budget. COVID shut down his set. How Paul Schrader finished shooting 'The Card Counter' in 5 days 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z By the time the rodents were 7 months old, typically the prime of life for a mouse, they already appeared to be in their dotage, the team reports today in Science. Defective immune cells could make us old 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s my intention to spend my dotage sitting in a rocking chair re-reading Dickens. Appreciation: Orson Bean's emails to this critic reveal the chatty charm that made him so beloved 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z None of that will keep him warmest in his dotage. Eric Cantona and 'the hooligan': the impact of the kung-fu kick 25 years on 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z On Thursday, North Korea’s first vice foreign minister, Choe Son-hui, said that Mr. Trump’s use of the “rocket man” insult was a sign of “the relapse of the dotage of a dotard.” Trump Officials Block U.N. Meeting on Human Rights Abuses in North Korea 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr Trump's attitude "must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard", says its foreign ministry. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The foreign ministry said if Mr Trump was confrontational, it "must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard". North Korea attacks Trump's 'dotage of a dotard' 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again … that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard,” Choe said. ‘Dotard’: North Korea threatens to resume Trump insults 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z When Franklin and Armfield retired, they passed easily into elite white society, achieving respectable dotage without a murmur. They were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names? 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z He has been tough to beat on the first weekend in his dotage, which means the Orange will give Gonzaga all it wants. Analysis | John Feinstein breaks down the NCAA tournament bracket 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The scorer of the most headed goals in Premier League history, Crouch looks likely to extend his record of 152 substitute appearances now that he is in his dotage. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z But instead he was calling about Big Edie, who deep into her dotage in the second act, bickers with her eccentric daughter amid the genteel squalor of the family’s crumbling estate in the Hamptons. Hello, Betty Buckley! A new Dolly hits town, and she's ready to add to her legend 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z How many of us, from childhood to dotage, still stand in the shadows and firmly resolve to stay there? More than 40 years ago, I was raped. I never told 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But apparently they’d rather regale friends with apocryphal recollections of being at Woodstock than contemplate their own mortality and plan for their dotage, even though they risk paying dearly for such shortsightedness. Decorating Strategies to Live at Home—Stylishly—Into Your 80s 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Marlowe is in his dotage, already 10 years into his retirement, living just north of Ensenada. Lawrence Osborne does Raymond Chandler quite well, thank you 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Why were we forced to see him awarded a preposterous two additional Gold Gloves in his dotage when his defense was scarcely better than mediocre in his prime? Opinion | The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Only then I didn’t have a child in college, and I hadn’t yet gotten serious about saving for my dotage. I’m Better Off From Getting Laid Off 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Sentences that keep people jailed into their dotage for crimes they committed in their youth drain the public purse with little public-safety benefit. America’s geriatric prison population is growing 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Players, even in their relative dotage, love playing, he has noticed. The Players Are Retired. But Try Telling Them the Games Don’t Matter. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Today’s infants, lovingly cared for by their parents, will become tomorrow’s producers and inventors and administrators, and will, in time, look after their elders in their dotage. Opinion | Trump’s paid family leave plan would punish those who choose to have kids 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Dotard is defined as "a person in his or her dotage", with dotage described as "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness". 'Feminism' is dictionary's word of year 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Dotard, as many were soon to learn per Merriam-Webster, means “a person in his or her dotage,” which is “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.” 'Dotard' rockets from obscurity to light up Trump-Kim exchange, spark partisan war of words 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Merriam-Webster noted that “dotard” comes from “dotage,” a word meaning “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.” Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ How Harsh Is That Burn? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, within a few short years, it was prematurely in its dotage. A fairy tale from 2050 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z He will be griping on his own behalf into his dotage. Hanging Up His Fedora, the Haggler Bows Out 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z I begrudge the brain space – I may need it to retain bladder control in my dotage. So Theresa May thinks she just needs to look the part… | David Mitchell 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z What astonished, flearing, and confused mumps and mows doth this dotage stir up in our visages! Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Anyone with an elder sibling, especially one whose global reputation—deserved or not—is so massive, can appreciate the psychological leverage that dominant siblings can exert, even in their dotage. Cuba Is a Litmus Test for Trump 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Castro sponsored violent subversive movements in half a dozen Latin American countries and even in his dotage helped steer Venezuela to economic and political catastrophe through his patronage of Hugo Chávez. Fidel Castro’s terrible legacy 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z But he lacks the really extreme qualities of touch and vision and technique to keep playing this way – a Hagi, a Pirlo – into his early dotage. Nights out aside, Wayne Rooney is not fit enough for Southgate’s England | Barney Ronay 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z They would be bookends on their cohort, one seizing the national stage on behalf of their generation in its prime, the other, who now qualifies for Medicare, vying to lead it into its dotage. In Boomers’ Sunset, Election Reaggravates an Old Divide 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Most men talk too much, are not self sufficient, and I fear just want someone to look after and cook for them in their dotage. The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Bill Clinton, who is becoming ever more honest in his dotage, went on an extended riff about how his party’s health-care system was the “craziest thing in the world.” Trump’s ObamaCare Silence 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z American culture has redefined old age, pushing it back significantly as modern medicine allows people to live longer and remain vigorous well into what used to be considered their dotage. The hidden history of presidential disease, sickness and secrecy 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z For as more people enter and live longer in their dotage, demand increases for two costly types of care. Accident and emergency 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It didn’t take me long to see the advantages of leading an advocacy start-up in my dotage: A new way to turn 70: Don’t kick back and relax 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z I am a happy childless never married woman who is having a great time in my dotage. The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z TROON, Scotland — Even in their dotage decades from now, the golfers who were cursed with afternoon tee times Friday at the 145th British Open might be able to tell of the unfairness of it all. Troon’s wind and weather blow tea-time golfers off the British Open leaderboard 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Many students are only children due to China’s recently rescinded One-Child Policy, and, owing to the nation’s spotty social security provision, are solely relied upon to support their parents and grandparents though their dotage. Chinese Students Face 7 Years in Jail for Exam Cheating 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Compounding matters, China’s recently abandoned One-Child Policy means many young people are solely relied upon to support their parents through their dotage. Stephen Hawking Inspires Chinese Kids on 'Gaokao' Exam Day 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Capable or not, even in his dotage, Sumner Redstone managed to get the last, nasty word. Sumner Redstone’s Sad, Angry Decline 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Maintaining the sacredness of that transaction—beyond the Santa years, into adulthood and dotage—keeps us all from falling into the Scrooge trap. In Defense of Scrooge 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Some date its dotage to the end of the first world war; others to the second. Taking a pounding 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z That, in theory, should lead to lower asset values as countries enter their dotage, but the empirical record is mixed: house prices often fall, but stocks sometimes rise. Money for old folk 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The older the respondents—women in particular—the later they envisioned the debut of their dotage. Science Debunks Midlife Myths 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Memory can be a cruel if courteous running mate, providing you warmth in your dotage but allowing you to romanticize things that, in retrospect, don’t deserve it. Chuy’s review: A manufactured, yet charming, dose of Tex-Mex kitsch 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Vidal outlived Buckley and spent his dotage in a villa perched on the edge of the Mediterranean from whose vertiginous balcony he could, he said, “watch the decline of Western civilization.” When Conservatives and Liberals Threw Punches Most culprits are either dead or in their dotage. The final reckoning 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In his dotage he was overthrown by military rivals. Myanmar Reforms Slip Into Reverse: Can Burma's Democracy And Obama's Number One Foreign Policy Success Be Saved? 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z In Eto’o’s favour, aside from a name able to wear an apostrophe, is the ability to score, even in his dotage, against teams with actual defenders. Football transfer rumours: Samuel Eto’o to sign for Arsenal? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z My dictionary, for instance, defines dotage as a “feeble and childish state due to old age; senility.” Barbara Walters is older, sure, but not senile “By that argument,” he said, “I would stay until my dotage.” Representative Rush Holt, of New Jersey, Will Not Seek Re-election 2014-02-18T17:57:08Z In his supposed dotage in this country of rules, Mr. Schmidt enjoys a rare impunity. Former Chancellor of Germany Retains Wit and Smoking Habit at 95 2013-12-23T09:41:20Z But the "is hardly working into one's dotage" as people enjoy increased life expectancy. Nigella, pensions and pigs in news 2013-12-05T20:51:52Z Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping as our dotage arises? Knocking on Heaven s Door : The Big Business of Lifesaving [Excerpt] 2013-09-16T13:17:24.310Z What does an elderly person owe relatives who hardly knew her and did not take care of her in her dotage, as opposed to the hired help who did? The Two Wills of the Heiress Huguette Clark 2013-09-14T01:49:12Z Ageing baby-boomers desperate to postpone their dotage are expected to be especially keen buyers. Commercialising neuroscience: Brain sells 2013-08-08T15:00:01Z Being politically astute, even in her dotage, Baroness Thatcher was aware what contention that could create. Maggie, Divisive Even in Death 2013-04-12T08:45:00Z India have some senior citizens and the English optimists surmised that in their dotage some of them "don't like it up 'em", to borrow a phrase of Corporal Jones. Virender Sehwag and India's Dad's Army expose England's ill-discipline 2012-11-15T12:50:07Z You pay taxes throughout your working life and in exchange, not as a mulligan, you're promised health care in your dotage. The New Old Age Blog: 'Old' Myself, and None Too Pleased 2012-10-03T16:57:17Z It has been extremely effective. So far as I can tell, McCain’s position as he approaches his dotage, is full-scale war everywhere, whenever possible. Viewpoint: Shame on You, John McCain 2012-08-30T05:35:15Z Alas, he succumbed to religious fervor in his dotage, falling in with a cult of self-proclaimed French prophets whom he believed would cure him of his deformity. Geologic Wonders and the Legend of Finn McCool 2012-07-05T18:15:04.170Z Anna must have been born with dotage in her brain. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The poor old gentleman was in his dotage; he was on the edge of the grave; he was being got at by that odious housekeeper and Jasmine. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Men who had loved Betty, women who had been envied because of her friendship for them, rallied about her now, in her dotage, and helped her keep up the pitiable farce of queenship. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z “Going to see the uncles” was how they put it, and there were more than a few debriefs that suggested the uncles were slipping from their dotage into their anecdotage. IHT Rendezvous: Now, a Question of Tactics in Myanmar 2012-04-02T04:13:44Z This conception of suicide as an euthanasia, an abridgment of the pangs of disease, and a guarantee against the dotage of age, was not confined to philosophical treatises. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z I knew what a sacrifice it would be upon his part—more than a woman ought to accept from a lover, I think—a man in his dotage, as one may say. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z "Do you think any girl would marry a man practically in his dotage?" inquired Juggernaut respectfully. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z In an ideal scenario, the fast-ageing rich world would be running current-account surpluses and accumulating claims on the faster-growing developing world to provide a cushion for its dotage. Buttonwood: Emerging appetites 2012-03-15T16:00:33Z Or has every mail to treat this Government as though it was in its dotage? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z In an age when reading and writing were substantially unknown, and when history itself was but the vaguest hearsay handed down from dotage to infancy, nothing was rescued from oblivion except the wonderful, the miraculous. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z This frequently cuts off charity from the greatest objects of compassion, and inspires people with a malevolence towards those poor decrepit parts of our species in whom human nature is defaced by infirmity and dotage.’ Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Indeed, I believe I shall turn monopolizer in my dotage, and keep them all to myself. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Dame Fortune! all your acts and deeds confess That you are foul oppression's votaress; You cherish bad men, and annoy the good; Is this from dotage, or sheer foolishness? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z She costs him a pretty penny for her support, I warrant me, and accuses him in her dotage with harboring a desire to get rid of her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Kaat notched 44 “hanging around” wins in his dotage when he was a lousy starter or middling reliever. Bats: Kaat, Tiant, Reynolds: Who Belongs in the Hall? 2011-11-09T19:56:16Z Hayes was a bombastic legend at Ohio State, but one day in his dotage he leapt off the sideline and punched an opposing player in a 1978 bowl game. Sports of The Times: The Dangerous Cocoon of King Football - George Vecsey 2011-11-07T18:54:05Z But will the world never be awakened out of this dream and dotage, of dull and stupid subjection to every monster that can mount a throne? A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z “I am in my dotage,” he thought; “for I certainly understood that he said Tessa.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Here was no case of a man living in the house and influencing an old gentleman approaching his dotage. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z They pitied the French for their want of common-sense; they said that their brains were addled; that they were in their dotage, and uttered similar absurdities. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z He is, however, in his dotage, being now in his eighty-fifth year. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z In Cleopatra’s palace one friend of Antony is describing to another, just arrived from Rome, the dotage of their great general; and, as the lovers enter, he exclaims: Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z It was at this very church where Pompilia was baptised, brought by her pretended mother, who had purchased her to palm off on her husband in his dotage, and so cheat the heirs. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Alas! she is in her dotage, poor creature, and her mind is filled with whims and extravagances. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z It is only charitable to excuse it as the product of his dotage. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z After these things Merlin fell into a dotage of love for a damsel of the lady of the lake, and would let her have no rest, but followed her in every place. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z The mother was half in her dotage, and had almost reverted to the animal in the course of the years of misery which she had lived through. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Youth used to be our last hurrah before the onset of maturity and eventual dotage, each milestone — childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, retirement, golden years, decline — benchmarked against a series of culturally determined ideals. Amortality: Young or Old, Why It's No Longer Necessary to Act Your Age 2011-06-11T17:33:50Z No. Samuel Parris loved his child to dotage, but even she could not induce him to bring scandal on the church by an undignified movement. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z In the literary age of Greece and Rome the ancient religions of Babylonia and Egypt had passed into their dotage, and the conceptions on which they were founded had been transformed or forgotten. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It becomes enfeebled by disease, by accidents to the brain, and at times disappears, like a lingering spark from a flame, in the dotage of age. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Wine has its dotage, like the rest of us. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z From Marlborough’s eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z A few years ago there came into my hands a field of twelve acres, which had been an orchard; but the trees were hopelessly in their dotage. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Here Mr. Sargant, his English biographer, gives up the pursuit of him, and slurs over the rest of his life as though it were passed in obscurity and dotage. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z I looked in the face of the archbishop; there was an expression of helplessness in it, which almost amounted to dotage. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z On the other hand, in what Dryden calls the “dotages,” we find a great falling off. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Old age, when dotage grows, is time sufficient to mourn for friends. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Stump, the 10-year-old Sussex spaniel who won Best in Show in 2009, continued his dotage at the home of his handler in Houston. Filet Mignon? Winner Turns Up Nose 2011-02-17T02:30:46Z I'm becoming a moralistic prig in my dotage. Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? 2011-01-28T23:15:00.620Z The elderly spinster considered that she had been used and flouted, treated as though she were in her dotage and had lost her authority to engage and dismiss the members of the Fallaray ménage. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z In the depths of the wood Dr. Hickey might be heard uttering those singular little yelps of encouragement that to the irreverent suggest a milkman in his dotage. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z It was risky, but our names were the same, and he's half blind and somewhat deaf, and in his dotage. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z My dotage is always marked by that idyllic longing.... Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z The Italian is 51 and the Scot, who turns 69 at the end of this month, is very far from reaching his dotage. Chelsea and Manchester United burdened by effects of passage of time 2010-12-18T00:08:42Z It would be inconceivable to this humble if brilliant lawyer, now 15 years into my overtime dotage, that Young Gruden would smooch Ron Jaworski’s hair, real or synthetic. TV Sports: Channeling Howard Cosell, Speaking of Don Meredith 2010-12-08T18:53:00Z Is the old firebreather going soft in his dotage or is there method in the Scot's madness? It is the great Anfield mismatch but who are the underdogs? 2010-10-02T22:00:00Z I also think it would make a wonderful place for the people in the community to gather in the future and, for some it would be a good spot to enjoy their dotage. Tuttle: Memories of the Old School 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z A new assessment of 14 forecasts of global oil supply underlines how the short-lived empire of oil is already well into its dotage, with the end in sight during our own lifetimes. 79 months and counting ... 2010-06-01T10:05:00Z Sol Campbell is "seriously considering" living out the latest instalment of his protracted dotage in the Eurodisnae League with the Queen's Celtic. The Fiver 2010-05-26T15:17:00Z A little thing like a frustrating end to a baseball game isn't going to torture him into his dotage. Losing a perfect game was tough ? but Brian Holman's been through tougher 2010-04-16T05:13:00Z In his dotage he bowled long and proudly for his last county summer of 1913 in tandem with son Harold – before the sprightly boy went off to the autumn trenches to die. Frank Keating: Is it really so awful to be an April fool? 2010-03-30T23:10:00Z Angie was as obtuse; the old hermit, misanthropic and verging into dotage, was certainly oblivious, and so no ripples of interest disturbed these workers. The Girl From Tim's Place Many animals are thus broken down at twelve, and are in their dotage at fifteen, while others of good constitution, if well treated, perform hard service till thirty. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. In fact, in the last years of his reign he had sunk into a perfect dotage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Ellen Elliot, the fair gipsy, is now Lady Whithaugh; the old man in his dotage having taken it into his head to marry again, though he was at the time a grandfather. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Do I look childish, or in my dotage? A Little World Bulstrode seemed to be perfectly aware of his dotage and to delight in it. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode She was born of parents, who, at the time of her birth, were very near their dotage; in consequence of which, as it was believed, she held her existence by a very feeble tenure. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician She had by no means passed into her dotage, the nonentity of old age, and was possibly not more than seventy or seventy-five, though she looked a hundred. Glories of Spain They had formerly been brave soldiers, and most of them were not old enough to be in their dotage. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. "The palace guards are fled back to Madrid," he cried, "and as to the town watch they are either drunk or in their dotage!" The Firebrand As to the old man, his dotage takes the form of intrepidity, so that it might be unsafe to use menace with him. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) No; it only means that you are growing extravagant in your dotage, my good Dorian. Faith and Unfaith Your father is not so old a man as to be in his dotage. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Her partiality for Essex seems to have been the dotage of a vain old woman. Lives of Celebrated Women Many pronounced him mad, others whispered about dotage. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Was he too modest to affirm it till he had got into his dotage? Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence It seemed so hard to be deprived of one's legal dotage. Bye-Ways The poor man was doubtless sinking into premature dotage. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 And old M. Lancrac, my mother’s good friend and kinsman, was in his dotage. Seven Frozen Sailors Thou happy wretch! by blindness thou art blest; By dotage dandled to perpetual smiles. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes I myself could find in one district in Galway but one man who had not seen what I can but call spirits, and he was in his dotage. Ideas of Good and Evil Even if I live until I am seventy—the correct age for entering into one's dotage, I believe—I cannot expect to have a second childhood. Bye-Ways Was it not uncharitable to say that they were in their dotage? The Religious Life of London My cousin Seth Winters must be getting into his dotage! Dorothy on a House Boat It was like childhood or dotage to his mind this dream of a greatness so far off, so impossible, and he burned for some real actual existence with truthful incidents and interests. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Various the tribes, all led by fables vain, Their rites the dotage of the dreamful brain. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem As a politician the period of his activity coincides with the years of Edward III.’s dotage, and with practically the whole of Richard II.’s reign. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" His table talk justifies his title to that appellation, by showing that he is in his dotage. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) When the lords of our king's blood saw that he had fallen into this dotage they left the court in disgust, and sought their livelihood elsewhere. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Mr. Wordsworth has painted their effect on the mind when he makes his friend Matthew, in a fit of inspired dotage, "Sing those witty rhymes About the crazy old church-clock And the bewilder'd chimes." A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time It displays on the one hand the "first sprightly runnings" of the precocious young poet, and on the other the "last dull droppings" of the veteran author, who was verging upon his dotage. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition I know nothing,—I 'm too old; I 'm in my dotage. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life These, then, were the visions that haunted his dotage in the very night I had seen him, as he struggled in some imaginary conflict, and patted the ground in some fancied act of concealment! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Gallicanism, the noblest child of Catholicism, is dead before his father, who in his dotage remains obstinately faithful to his principles.... Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Never will "The Pleasures of Memory" be forgotten till the world is in its dotage. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Mere vanity, and silly dotage, all:— No, let me live at large, and when I die—— Pol. The Orphan or, The Unhappy Marriage Insignificance, imbecility, childhood, dotage, want of moral character; in fine, every defect serious or laughable unite to hold up the hereditary system as a figure of ridicule. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 It is true that Bernhardi ignores the greatest of Prussian philosophers, whose immortal plea in favour of perpetual peace is dismissed as the work of his dotage. German Problems and Personalities The father was in his dotage, the mother was a paralytic, and Charles with his pen, and his sister Mary with her needle, worked to support the family. Home Life of Great Authors And finally, in the senility of my dotage I conned myself into believing I could bluff it out; at the worst, I could prove my innocence easily enough. The Bandbox But if Miss Arminster tried to take advantage of his dotage to forge another link in her matrimonial chain, he, Banborough, would have a word to say on the subject. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts Secondly, Because the representative is a system of Government always in maturity; whereas monarchical government fluctuates through all the stages, from non-age to dotage. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Having taken sufficient note of all the baseness of mind which these facts indicate in the people, we shall not be surprised to find immediate signs of dotage in the conception of their architecture. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) He has deprived the dotage of its devotion; but I think wisely, as the Italian system would imply that devotion was, or should be, always delayed until dotage. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), The old historian begins to dote, and the new one was never out of dotage.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Sir, she speaks As the spoilt child of her old father's dotage. Collected Poems Volume Two That angel face on which my dotage hung! Jane Shore A Tragedy And with this soliloquy, half to himself and partly addressed to the drover, the old hunter seemed almost fit to cry, at his imaginary insignificance and dotage. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes His own words, "the dotage of age and the fury of a woman," form the best short description of both. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 After this, Harihar seems to have fallen into a state of dotage, and his three sons by Mahisi rose upon their aged parent, and put him in confinement. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha Jasper Fay, it seemed to his son, had passed into some pitiful and premature stage of dotage. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The Millennium is stigmatised, in what once stood as the forty-first Article of the English Church, as "a fable of Jewish dotage." Flowers of Freethought (First Series) And what is the argument of all Homer's Iliads, but only, as Horace observes:— They kings and subjects dotages contain? In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Thinking that I am getting into my dotage, young man? Death Points a Finger The Empress, Elizabeth, continually instigated by her minister, Bestuzheff, against Prussia, was in her dotage, was subject to daily fits of drunkenness, and gave signs of approaching dissolution. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Are their opinions, because consistent, to be treated with contempt, and consistency itself to be sneered at as the prerogative of obstinacy and dotage? Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 He is an old man, between seventy and eighty, of great self-esteem, perhaps entering his dotage. The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences With one guardian in her dotage and the other at the antipodes Miss Cavendish is practically, if not legally, her own mistress. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend In his dotage making a rod to whip himself. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule A veritable battle plan of a past age, the product of a mind in its dotage, and half a century behind the times! The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The Tribune is either in its dotage, or still worse. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Were I to live till Time were in his dotage, 'Twould never from mine eyes. The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage Walk about the garden and smoke a pipe, as had been his wont?—he had got emancipated from these delights of dotage. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 You are like the rest of your family," I shouted: "ignorant, thoughtless, brutal en venerie, sanctimonious in dotage. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess He says: "My mynde in my younger times hath been ever free from ambition and now I am going to my grave, to gape for such a thing were mere dotage in me." Memorials of Old London Volume I Manage for me! go out o' my sight; I'm a fool, am I, and in my dotage to have a pack of women meddling in my affairs?” Phoebe, Junior He is getting in his dotage, otherwise he would experience no repugnance in proposing to such a girl, provided, of course, that, along with an education, she was at the same time pretty and virtuous. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III She could not be blind to the trickery by which money was wrested from tortured consciences, and from ignorance, imbecility, and dotage. Madame Roland, Makers of History The folly of senile dotage is throughout exposed as unsparingly, though with a difference in the imitation, as in the original. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 I supposed you then to be the rise of sixty years, certainly in your dotage and among the vainest old gentlemen I had ever met with. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors The grandmother in her dotage was no counsellor at all. Famous Women: George Sand A younger son, however, is christened “Liberal Union,” and whether it will remain at home to take care of the old man in his dotage remains to be seen. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 He is an old man in his dotage; and, as he repudiates his checks, you must not be the loser.” The Scarlet Feather The great kingdom which had just descended to Philip the Fifth was in a state of paralytic dotage. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Heed not, I pray you, an old man in his dotage.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution What will be our fate in the frenzy, so to speak, that shall befall the world in its dotage? Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood He never set foot on board a boat again, but sank straight into pauperism and dotage. Merry-Garden and Other Stories The idea of dotage encroaching upon wisdom will solve all the phenomena of the character of Polonius. Hamlet Even in the Memoirs of her father there is no trace of dotage. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) His conduct in the previous campaign was not satisfactory, and the conqueror of the Cimbri, at sixty-six, was thought to be in his dotage. Ancient States and Empires They heaped insults upon Father Noah, and—frenzied by success—they divided the curse of servitude pronounced upon them as a sign of his dotage. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood There he spent his declining years and died in dotage. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) He feared, and also he lamented, that his learned brother must be approaching his dotage. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Long, long ago He won the treasure of eternal youth; Yours is the dotage—if you want to know The truth. Modern British Poetry The only instance among them of chronic sequels to those complaints occurred in an old man almost in dotage, whose feeble remains of life were wasting away by an ulceration of the lungs. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage This faith taught him to despise the presumption of the world which derided him as a man in his dotage. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood I am not quite in my dotage yet," quoth Tanty, drily; "neither am I in the habit of making unfounded assertions, nephew. The Light of Scarthey If this is being superannuated, no matter; when dotage can amuse itself it ceases to be an evil. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. These follies I deny not, Such a contemptible thing my dotage made me, But my reward for this— Cler. The Little French Lawyer A Comedy Monarchical government appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage; a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics "But I am not in my dotage," she cries, gayly. Floyd Grandon's Honor From the time he is a small boy until he is in his dotage, a man swings off a car, facing in the direction in which the car is headed. 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' She is the last survivor of the quorum, and is now fast fading into dotage. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 Now in freestone I sit,—and my dotage,— With a woman's chair empty close by, close by! The Book of Humorous Verse “That old fellow is in his dotage!” growled Captain Pendleton to himself, as he tenderly lifted the head and shoulders of all that remained of poor Rosa Blondelle. Cruel As The Grave What a poisonous devil, to try and wean from us, to his ruin, an old man in his dotage!—I wish Antonia had stayed. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic The old dame who had been the girl's nurse and caretaker fled the place and fell into mumbling dotage in a night. The Thing from the Lake He loved that gay pavilion,—it was ever His summer dotage. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Where did Johnson get the idea that Marlborough had sunk into dotage before his death? A History of the Four Georges, Volume I She was like an idol in its dotage. Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 He was one of the group that introduced the modern continental notation of the calculus into England, replacing the cumbersome notation of Newton, passing from "the dotage of fluxions to the deism of the calculus." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I It might have been, he had half thought, that the old man had signed the codicil in his dotage, having been cheated and bullied into it by the woman. Orley Farm Seth, the last offspring of old Adam's dotage? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry And do but mark their confidence! ’tis sure 19 The dotage of mad people, not of lovers. The Comedies of Terence You sometimes hear people say, 'Yes, but he was in his dotage.' The Shadow World To covet the craft of such language would be "great dotage" for an old man like him. Early Theories of Translation What terrible things might he not be expected to do now that his dotage was coming on? Orley Farm Have I reached my dotage by the way of the seven-league boots? The Lure of the Mask People wondered and thought him in a state of mere dotage. Byeways in Palestine For Merlin, now grown an old man in his dotage, had fallen under the spell of a damsel of the court named Nimue. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" Mine too he threatens; but his dotage still Would fain reserve me for his lordly will: When wearier of these fleeting charms and me, There yawns the sack—and yonder rolls the sea! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 In truth, it was all over,—such love at least as that of which his old heart was dreaming in its dotage. Orley Farm “Can wot be true?” says he, with a stare of surprise—for Tom is getting into his dotage now. Fighting the Whales It soon became evident to our adventurers that the woman was in her dotage, while the old man was so frail that only a few of the sands of life remained to run. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables "I'm growing old, and maybe I'm in my dotage ... ah, he's gone—I've driven the lad away with my folly!" The Making of a Soul Rives had discovered that this spinster, Miss Patience Hollinsworth, was in her dotage and for a man of Rives' ability the rest had been easy. Every Man for Himself Swift, in his dotage, appears to have been gratified by such puerilities as Scarron frequently wrote. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Raymond passed over all thought of old Jehiel, the ruthlessly acquisitive, and placed the blame on the other grandfather, who was now in an early dotage after a lifelong harnessing to the stock-ticker. On the Stairs As I hinted before, the old lady is almost in her dotage, and cannot well be reasoned with, for she is very positive. Percival Keene The enormous disproportion of ages gave to the new inclination of the queen a stamp of dotage inconsistent with the reputation for good sense and dignity-240--vol ii- of conduct which she had hitherto preserved. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth She was sent away, but, trusting to the King's dotage, she came back, police or no police.... The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert "Can wot be true?" says he, with a stare of surprise—for Tom is getting into his dotage now. Fighting the Whales She is in her dotage and only remembers old scares. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order There were few to follow him except in Quebec—for in his dotage he would not believe that the West had so forsaken him. The Masques of Ottawa I made her get bundled up once or twice, an' I hitched up the horse an' took her ridin' in my phaeton that cost two hundred dollars.—You'll be in your dotage some day, Abbie. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story How can we expect the country to be properly governed by men in their dotage? Better Dead She receives into her stable old and overworked horses, thus ensuring for them a sleek and peaceful dotage enlivened by sugar and carrots, and marked by the kindest consideration. Highways and Byways in Sussex This frequently cuts off charity from the greatest objects of compassion, and inspires people with a malevolence towards those poor decrepit parts of our species, in whom human nature is defaced by infirmity and dotage. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' I think Squire must be a little crazy on this score; that is, the old dotage of a Cathedral town superstition worked up into activity by a choleric disposition. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Today at an age that leaves the greater number of men in their dotage, Mr. Robinson is healthy and active. Watch Yourself Go By England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage. Canada and the Canadians Volume I I know they think I'm getting in my dotage—brain a little cracked—and all that. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life But ridicule in the hands either of cold-blooded or infuriated Malice, is harmless as a birch-rod in the palsied fingers of a superannuated beldam, who in her blear-eyed dotage has lost her school. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The prudence of these worthy friends they term suspicion, and their experience dotage. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies I never sold it to young men nor to old men in their dotage. Watch Yourself Go By "Margery is no more in her dotage than you are," said Grace, vexed. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Beauty is too apt to exert a peremptory claim to absolute dominion; and, not content with conjugal affection, requires obsequious dotage. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel In that use of the word "old," far from us is all thought of dotage or decay. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 We are not born in the dotage and decay of the world. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry And now he is going into his dotage, and the big men won't dare to use him much longer. The Plunderer The result proved that those who had thought him in his dotage, and only indulging its loquacity, were much mistaken. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology "Yes, I guess he must have been in his dotage," Roy agreed. The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained What would those who love and honour me think if they saw their friend in this dotage and distraction? Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings Some recent writers have sought to demolish Wallace's argument concerning Spiritism by saying he is an old man and in his dotage. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists He's in his dotage, and could not possibly carry out such a plan. The Silent House It was little enough Tom knew about military affairs and he thought that this lonesome old weaver was in his dotage. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There For 'curiosity or dotage' none could beat Mr. Thomas Rawlinson, whose vast collections were dispersed in seventeen or eighteen auctions before the final sale in 1733. The Great Book-Collectors The not unattractive character of Gaveston, too, affectionate, gay, proud, quick-tempered, brave—with faults also, of deceit, vanity and vindictiveness—preserves the royal friendship from the sink of blind dotage upon an unworthy creature. The Growth of English Drama You’re right: for doubting is a kind of dotage: Experience ages and decays; while folk Who never doubt themselves die young—at ninety. Krindlesyke Clearly, Professor Farrago was on the verge of dotage—ah, what a loss to the world! In Search of the Unknown The failure or decay of reason in old age is called dotage. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence If you think that I am marrying Anne because I love her, or because I am in my dotage and afflicted with senility, you are very much mistaken. From the Housetops Good mother, dotage wears thee, and thy brain Is rusty; age hath troubled thee in vain, And, 'midst the feuds of monarchs, mocks with fright A priestess. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor As well say that gold is in its decadence because brass can be burnished to look like it; or that the sun is in his dotage because we have filled our gardens with Chinese lanterns. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches Orcutt said he was losing his grip, was in his dotage. The Challenge of the North In old age, and in peculiar diseases, the worn-out system may return to a second childhood, then called dementia or dotage. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence And yet, when my companion and I, now in our dotage, recently visited the Chamberlin, there stood the same potted palm in the same place. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Behold me, worn with dotage! me, whom age Hath rusted, and, while monarchs fight, would scare With empty fears! The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor And they left him smirking, smiling, twitching his faded lips, and making vague sounds, lying there asleep in his dotage. The Danger Mark Furthermore, do I promise and swear, that I will not be at the initiating of an old man in dotage, a young man in nonage, an atheist, irreligious libertine, idiot, madman, hermaphrodite, nor woman. The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge But it had been long enough to break the victim's spirit and hasten his dotage. Roads from Rome His age was almost three-score-years-and-ten, and he was a reputably worthy man, then just in the early years of his dotage. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 Yes, comrade, but he will not be the first old fellow who has taken a young wife in his dotage. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales I felt as if I had been taken to pay a ceremonial visit to a supreme pontiff in his dotage. Romance It is different from simple old age or dotage. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada He was said to be half silly, at any rate an original, almost in his dotage, living by any lucky bits that he could make as horse-coper and veterinary. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage. The Soldier of the Valley That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.—Cicero. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age The further we walked the nobler appeared the last relic of the dotage of old feudal Servia. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Politics, an' the fact that the cow country is in its dotage. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Louis XIV. was in his dotage, and at this time paid little attention to men of genius. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Though now her dotage makes her want discretion, Her Love to us was great. The Fatal Jealousie (1673) "His attachment exceeds admiration, it is perfect dotage." The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain That, however, is always the case with freshwater lakes in their last dotage, as American geologists have amply proved in the case of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science They are irremovable, but by their own body, for any depravities of conduct, and even by their own body for the imbecilities of dotage. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Now, the Church "holding forth the Word of life" was commending herself to philosophers and statesmen: then, she had sunk into premature dotage, and her very highest functionaries were lisping the language of infidelity. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution The king, sunk in extreme dotage, was entirely in the hands of his unscrupulous son. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Two wives beat drums and he dances to them; he is evidently in his dotage. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 It is amazing to what a degree I am become helpless; nothing can account for it but extreme dotage, or extreme infancy. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expire a driveller and a show? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals Edward III., after a reign of great splendour, had sunk into dotage. Old St. Paul's Cathedral The ministers of Edward's dotage could not hold France nor even keep England quiet. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) I haven't reached my dotage yet, and I can see when I am a burden. The Voice of the People Joubert was in his dotage, and none of his people were aware of it until the crucial moment of the war was passed. With the Boer Forces Had merit, not her dotage, been considered; Then Creon had been king; but Œdipus, A stranger! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 The third and last period is that in which he is makin' his soul and preparin' for another world; that is the period of dotage.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent My father shall be justified, he shall: 'Tis a son's part to rise in his defence, And to confound thy malice, or thy dotage. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 You think I've been more alone than's good for me; think of him, shut up with an old woman in her dotage. What Necessity Knows With a thought I took for Maudlin, And a cruse of cockle pottage, And a thing thus—tall, Sky bless you all, I fell into this dotage. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 It was somewhat unfortunate that the infancy of English learning was supported by the dotage of the Roman, and that even the spring-head from whence they drew their instructions was itself corrupted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Here I perceived that Mr. Felt was in his dotage, and I despaired of gaining any intelligence from him on which I could depend. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know O the curse Of doting on, even when I find it dotage! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 While Soulé stood waiting for his answer, his mind was drifting back, like that of a man in his dotage, through its dull, muddy thoughts, after that one silly memory. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 The slavery and dotage of Hudibras to the widow revealed the voluptuous epicurean, who slept on his throne, dissolved in the arms of his mistresses. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Indeed, for some time past, he might be said to hover between reason and dotage. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Every circumstance, no matter how trivial, that could be raked up and collected, was now brought together, and stamped with a character of significance, in order to establish his dotage and their fraud. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One If on your head my fury does not turn, Thank that fond dotage which so much you scorn; But, in another's person, you may prove, There's warmth for vengeance left, though not for love. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 You had six plates, three of which were of porcelain, a Shakspeare, the works of Victor Hugo, a chest of drawers in its dotage, and a Phrygian cap. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 You've come home from foreign parts to your old and doting mother—I thought she would be in her dotage by this time—and you're a responsible citizen, and an eminently rich and respectable man. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Nations are born, have their periods of youthful vigor, their manhood of sturdy strength, the tottering of decrepit age, the imbecility of superstitious dotage—and their death is final extinction. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Still, not until the period of his dotage did that claim bear any relation to what even he would have called religion. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant We can not explain these charges of hatred upon any other grounds than that of an old man in his dotage. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods What would his state of mind be, who, in the dotage of the Nineteenth Century, went laboriously out of his way to cultivate a fragmentary resemblance to—say a spurious Vandyke? Grey Roses If it should prove serious, what a thing it will be for her! and these antediluvians, in their dotage, will do such ridiculous things. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Polonius is a man bred in courts, exercised in business, stored with observations, confident of his knowledge, proud of his eloquence, and declining into dotage. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Is the great chief a child, or in his dotage," he said to Girty, in the Shawanoe dialect, "that he lets passion run away with his reason? Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life At first she refused to realise that this apportioning of a continent three thousand miles distant from Germany was anything but a pipe-dream of diplomats in their dotage. Out To Win The Story of America in France From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction There was no doubt about how Vincent looked, as though he thought Mr. Welles, exulting over a blow with a mattock, an old imbecile in his dotage. The Brimming Cup The old lady who looks like a chorus girl in her dotage? The Wheel of Life Having thus proved its age, let us next prove that it is in its dotage, and is as much out of place in this nineteenth century as a monkey in a bed of tulips. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Did they think that he was in his dotage, to offer an insult of this magnitude? The Goose Girl The poor old Guardian the Queen put her trust in must be in his dotage. Three Wonder Plays An’ the man I was fule enough to take in his dotage be worst of all.” Children of the Mist No, dearest girl—his notion that I must have a moneyed bride is the merest whim of dotage; we must forgive the whims of ninety-five. The Missing Bride Ergo, as they are old and foolish, they are in their dotage. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He recalled certain acid comments of the bishop, followed by a statement that a young curé should be sent, gently to supersede the old priest, who was in his dotage. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories This too awaits you, that faltering dotage shall seize on you, to teach boys their rudiments in the skirts of the city. The Works of Horace Padre Zalvidea was in his dotage, and the four hundred Indians had scarcely anything left to them. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California His mother was a daughter of Lord Westgate, and her mother was an actress whom the old lord married in his dotage. Marcella We are idiot, younger-sons of gods, begotten in dotages divine; and our mothers all miscarry. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II In his Missionary Travels Livingstone says that but for the importunities of his friends, he meant to have kept this story in store to tell his children in his dotage. The Personal Life of David Livingstone "Were you in your dotage, sir?" thundered Hamilton, springing to his feet, and bringing his own hand down with such violence that the lead in his cuff dented his wrist. The Conqueror Even of those around her, Mrs. Jorrocks was in her dotage, Rebecca Taylforth was staunch and true, and Stevens knew nothing. The Firm of Girdlestone If you cannot discriminate between hay fever and imbecility, I can only say that your advanced years carry with them the inevitable penalty of dotage. Back to Methuselah We were received by the General of the order, Father Panizzoni, a little old man bent double with age, his eyes encircled with red, half blind, and I believe almost in his dotage. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Livingstone begins his answer by assuring Sir Roderick that he never contemplated settling down quietly in England; it would be time enough for that when he was in his dotage. The Personal Life of David Livingstone I should be in my dotage if Burr became President of the United States. The Conqueror "That is not impossible," said he, laughing; "but it is, I allow, still more possible that Madame de Gergy, for whom I have the greatest respect, may be in her dotage." Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici Do you know one General G.? He is a weazen-faced warrior, and in his dotage. Yesterdays with Authors Lamb showed me once an imperfect copy: the Sparrow's Wedding was the title of the longest piece, and this was the author's favourite; he liked, in his dotage, to hear Charles read it. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) My poor father is falling into that sear and yellow leaf, his dotage," he said, "that is evident; what could possess him to maunder so? Miriam Monfort A Novel Moreover, since I respect myself now, I must not find so much fault with my own doings, or you will say that I am in my dotage. A Roman Singer It was in its dotage, confined to its old alambics, when the romantic period was born and had modified the old style, rejuvenating it, making it more supple and malleable. Against the Grain But after seven years a ship is in its dotage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator In its dotage this noble nation became known, by its superstitious reverence for the law, as "the people of the book." The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible Duke Casimir is either in his dotage, or his riders have gotten out of hand since Hugo and you drove the young wolf over to help the old. Red Axe Our ritual excludes "an old man in his dotage" equally with a "young man under age." The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry No bond united him to the Saint-Germain quarters now in its dotage, scaling into the dust of desuetude, buried in a new society like an empty husk. Against the Grain Of the patron," he added rather sorrowfully, "I do not speak, for truly he is in his dotage and therefore not to be judged too harshly. The Gringos He sent to the French Academy an invective that bears all the marks of passionate dotage. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II And I am not in my dotage to use such illustrations—as not unnaturally sayeth the first to read my history. Red Axe But as dotage signifies imbecility of mind, this subject will be more properly considered under the head of intellectual qualifications. The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry Kings in their dotage and princes in their nonage wooed her. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy And though my violent dotage did transport me, Beyond those bounds, my modesty should have kept in, Though my desires were loose, from unchast art Heaven knows I am free. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country How do I know but I am superannuated? nobody will be so coarse as to tell me so; but if I published dotage, all the world would tell me so. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II He is, as you say, a senile old man in his dotage. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters She had fallen into a senile decrepitude that bordered on dotage. The Torrent Entre Naranjos The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.... From Chaucer to Tennyson The so-called Romanesque and Byzantine styles were but the dotage of second childhood, fumbling with the methods and materials of an irrecoverable past. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts He must be getting into his dotage, he reflected, or else the idea of a five-million-dollar job had him rattled. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Stoic and Epicurean philosophers alike upheld it as a lawful remedy against the pangs of disease, the dotage of old age, or the caprices of a tyrant. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers "Do you think I'm in my dotage, and I don't know a man from a mouse?" The Garies and Their Friends The large room was lit by two candles and a melancholy lamp, there was no tablecloth, the spoons were of pewter, with the bowls half gone, and the knives were in their dotage. A Surgeon in Belgium See—here’s his photograph—you see,He’s in his dotage.” More Bab Ballads Pursuing the subject, I found it to be traditionally settled among the poor ladies that the poor gentlemen, whatever their ages, were all very old indeed, and in a state of dotage. The Uncommercial Traveller The Christian religion, which, in itself," says that moderate historian, "is plain and simple, he confounded by the dotage of superstition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 What weakness to wish to live to such ghastly dotage, as to frighten the children, and make even the dogs to bark at us as we totter along the streets. The Life of General Francis Marion To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage. David Copperfield And now I had chanced upon the gentleman in his dotage, travelling with a barren effort at mystery, attended by a sad-faced daughter and two ancient domestics. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The horror of Pitt Crawley may be imagined, as these reports of his father's dotage reached the most exemplary and correct of gentlemen. Vanity Fair Has the American nation suddenly declined into intellectual dotage— reached the bald-head and dizzy soubrette finale in the mighty drama of life? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 "I'm an old fellow in my dotage, and I have nothing else to think of," he would say to himself; and yet he knew it was not that altogether. Little Lord Fauntleroy He really must be falling into premature dotage. The House Behind the Cedars "That's her foolish father's dotage; that will be soon put out of the lass's head, if it ever gets into it," answered Bucklaw. The Bride of Lammermoor At first it made him angry, he told himself it was a sign of dotage; but there was something in Philip that attracted him, and he found himself smiling at him he knew not why. Of Human Bondage Has the world passed into its dotage, or simply become an universal asylum for idiots? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 "In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle." Where There's a Will A shambling, stooping, trembling old man, in his dotage already. The Octopus : A story of California "And is this the effect of dotage or of primordial ignorance?" Stories from the Old Attic The wretched man is no doubt already in his dotage! Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish The old man was in his dotage and would soon die and the book be lost. The Happy Foreigner He was very frightened, howled the whole time we stayed, and was apparently in his dotage, hardly able to walk. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, It may be that he was maudlin; but this only renders it more impressive, for who would see 'From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expire a driveller and a show'? The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 And I, who in my younger days pursued adventure without success, in dotage find myself dragged into a romance by my two ears, whether I will or no! The Black Bag Sunderland had no reverence for any of God's creatures, and with Marlborough safe out of the room, snarled something about an old fellow in his dotage. The Highwayman "I might have had money of her for the asking," he presently went on; "yet I am glad I did not; which is a parlous sign and smacks of dotage." The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages The "Auld Gean Tree" fell into its dotage and was cut down to the strains of a "lament," with which the wail and skirl of the bagpipes drowned the noise of the woodmen's axes. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places "You are going into your dotage," said Mrs. Jenkins, with an amount of scorn so great that it exasperated Ketch as much as the words themselves. The Channings She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. Villette Ay, this Philip; I used to love the Queen with all my heart— God help me, but methinks I love her less For such a dotage upon such a man. Queen Mary and Harold "My father—" "Is as all of them have been since Father Adam's dotage," I ended; "and therefore is keeping fools and honest horses from their rest." The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Whether he was a little drunk or greatly in his dotage, it was impossible to determine without a nearer acquaintance. Weighed and Wanting I, poor maiden, then what shall I do, Cumbered by dotage of one Calisto? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 But the dotage of the King in the maintenance of the man, whose insolence in wresting justice he himself admits! The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Brewster says that 'some foreign writers have endeavoured to shew that his theological writings were composed at a late period of life, when his mind was in its dotage.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 It's more usual for old cuckoos to look for him in their dotage—and for good reasons! The Road to Damascus The old harper who used to be the delight of travellers is now in a state of dotage. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 With science, the old theology of the East, long in its dotage, begins evidently to die and disappear. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Hence, even wise decisions—wise under the particular circumstances and times—degenerated into mischievous follies, by having the privilege of immortality without any exemption from the dotage of superannuation. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Here, while lauding highly the painter's genius, he denounces his vanity, his envy, and makes an unmanly and brutal attack on his supposed dotage. Poetical Works Sure I must be falling into premature dotage. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty Oh, Sylvia,' cried he, '--thou joy and hope of all my aged years, thou object of my dotage, how hast thou brought me to my grave with sorrow!' Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister The auld dolt! he must be fallen to his dotage. The Christian A Story Was it I who was supposed to look after you in your dotage? Selected Polish Tales It is the aged hen, who is in her dotage, and whose eggs, also, are in their second childhood. Remarks The world is in its dotage, and doomsday is certainly coming all so fast. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The brains, in the interim, considering this unnatural course, will fall into a raving dotage, and withhold all feeling from the sinews and motion from the muscles. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 I can't forgive; not until my days of dotage come, and I cease remembering anything. The Virginians But Deirdre I will not leave nor forget for a thousand prophecies made by the Druids in their dotage. Imaginations and Reveries It is nonsense, Catharine—all the dotage of an old fool. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day The yearning of all ages, especially dotage, is for a relapse to the infantile state when all playthings were held in common. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War I'm in my dotage; I prattle of the good old times, and the new spirit of the age flouts me. Indian Summer True to the sentiments of his race, the men and women who knew him when he was strong and lusty strive to make him comfortable in his dotage; but he is repellent. Tropic Days When this is borne in mind it is truly surprising that he wrote and published so much; nay, that he did not sink into dotage before he was fifty years of age. The Opium Habit I really sometimes think the Squire is getting into his dotage. Light O' the Morning The respect shown throughout the play by Claudius to Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, now in his dotage, suggests that possibly Polonius was instrumental in securing Claudius' election. A History of English Literature He wasted his latter days in dotage, obscurity and universal neglect. Lives of the Necromancers This woman—this Elspeth,—she is in the extremity of age, and approaching in many respects to dotage. The Antiquary — Volume 02 I think I am getting into my dotage, my dear, or I should hardly talk to you like this,' said Lady Maulevrier, with a touch of bitterness. Phantom Fortune, a Novel We do not want to see-- "From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expire, a driveller and a show." Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship That they should be in their right minds, because testaments extorted through the phrenzy of a disease, or dotage of old age, were not in reality the wills of the persons that made them. 6th. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 345, December 6, 1828 But as to a planet, as to our little earth, instead of arguing dotage, six thousand years may have scarcely carried her beyond babyhood. Miscellaneous Essays She sits there the very image of dotage. The Antiquary — Volume 02 He has given himself sympathetic love-powder, that works upon him to dotage and has transformed him into his own mistress. Character Writings of the 17th Century He was indeed exceedingly old, foolish, and undignified in senility; and the louts were odiously jeering at his defenceless dotage, and a young policeman was obviously with the louts and against the aged, fatuous victim. Hilda Lessways Did he think—confound him!—did he think that he had reached his dotage? The Bars of Iron An old rat is like an old man in his dotage. The Glands Regulating Personality No Camptâ, has ever abdicated; but they seldom live to fall into that sort of inert indolence which may be called the dotage of their race. Across the Zodiac His perpetual dotage upon curiosities at length renders him one of them, and he shows himself as none of the meanest of his rarities. Character Writings of the 17th Century Perhaps some of us who are young men now may dimly read in our dotage of a great upheaval beside which the Terror of France will be tame and uneventful. The Sowers He tried to shake off the impression, and told himself angrily that he was falling into his dotage; but his memory would not yield. A Beautiful Possibility Their long, Micawber-like waiting after the exhaustion of the placers has brought on an exaggerated form of dotage. The Mountains of California These are not times to sacrifice to the dotage of greybeards, or the tears of silly women, the measures of salutary severity which the dangers around compel us to adopt. Old Mortality, Volume 1. They are called infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, maturity, age, and dotage. Miss Ludington's Sister You catch it from Molly, I reckon, and between you, you'll drive me into dotage yet. The Battle Ground The old mercer had almost fallen into dotage. Theresa Raquin This frequently cuts off charity from the greatest objects of compassion, and inspires people with a malevolence towards those poor decrepid parts of our species, in whom human nature is defaced by infirmity and dotage. The Coverley Papers This is the very sublime of folly, beyond which human dotage cannot advance. Biographical Essays One of the most objectionable was the unexpected change in his father- in-law, who had lapsed quite abruptly into troublesome dotage. The Desired Woman She was wandering again after the fancies of dotage, but Betty threw herself upon her. The Battle Ground It would also appear that her father owed his position as president to the influence of Mr. Force's predecessor, or rather to the influence that his daughter exercised over an old gentleman in his dotage. Mr. Bingle You look at that lean figure, and the wizened-up old hawk's face, with the white hair all round it, and you'd think that he was in his dotage. The Moneychangers Even in the memoirs of her father, there is no trace of dotage. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 "Mitchell is getting in his dotage, and he talks very freely to me at times." The Desired Woman Had the old man been in his dotage, which he was not, my answer would have been a more triumphant one. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood He had gone to the Coadjutor, who in the dotage of his uncle, the Archbishop of Paris, exercised all his powers. Stray Pearls This idea of dotage encroaching upon wisdom, will solve all the phenomena of the character of Polonius. Preface to Shakespeare The truest wisdom silly men can have, Is dotage on the follies of their flesh. The Poetaster She was scarcely forty-two years old, and already had the stammerings of terror, and vague, pitiful looks of an old woman in her dotage. The Fortune of the Rougons For when was dotage consistently and imaginatively inventive? Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood I thought that my landing at Alexandretta was alone responsible for the continuance of my dotage, and hoped that fresh scenes would banish Carlotta's distracting image. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Polonius is a man bred in courts, exercised in business, stored with observation, confident of his knowledge, proud of his eloquence, and declining into dotage. Preface to Shakespeare The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage. The Blind Spot How do I know but I am superannuated? nobody will be so coarse as to tell me so; but if I published dotage all the world would tell me so. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 She was certainly in her dotage as concerned this man. The Mayor's Wife It was evident she was looking for one of those almost incredible excuses which are sometimes accepted by credulous old men when violent passions seize them in their dotage. The Clique of Gold "I tell you, Estelle, I am neither blind nor exactly in my dotage, and that girl has no more intention of—" The door opened, and Mr. Murray came in. St. Elmo "Think you I am in my dotage, Master Wingfield, that I remember not the day?" said she, "and think you that I am going deaf that I hear not the church bells?" The Heart's Highway "A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well: Yet better had he neither known A bigot's shrine nor despot's throne." The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 |
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