单词 | dotty |
例句 | We like to regard the olfactory bulb as a sort of archeologic find, and we speak of the ancient olfactory parts of the brain as though they were elderly, dotty relatives in need of hobbies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "I won't be able to talk to you much once we're in the Dining-Room. If I do, people will think I'm dotty and talking to myself." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Olivia Colman had won Actress in a Leading Role, a prize everyone expected to go to Glenn Close, and given a wonderfully dotty speech that turned the crowd’s shock into delight. An Oscars-Night Diary 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Shultz beams with maternal warmth at some points, and acts endearingly pathetic and dotty at others. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z He observes how Nostradamus has been embraced by “heavy breathers of apocalypse, dotty maiden aunts, late-night viewers of the History channel” and consumers of astrology columns. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z Mr. Fox endowed Dr. Bombay, a warlock, with a dotty rectitude and utter confidence, reinforced by his crisp and friendly British accent. Bernard Fox, Dr. Bombay on ‘Bewitched,’ Dies at 89 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He has also typically been blessed with actors skilled at selling dotty setups with deadpan ease. ‘Incredible but True’ Review: Track to the Future 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z This sets up a lovely bit in which their whole life together – romance, parenthood, betrayal, fond old age – is dramatised in a two-minute swirl of props, hats and dotty cameos. Pappy's: Last Show Ever – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T14:26:35Z The pact a show like “Midsomer” has with its viewers allows for the brutal disposal of straying spouses, guilty vicars, greedy businessmen and dotty pensioners but not of anyone we care about. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z At its most engaging, “Trio” rises to something more like the sublimely dotty comedy of P. G. Wodehouse. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Like a slightly dotty professor addressing a lecture hall, Marylouise Burke paces the stage and talks of Molière. Review: ‘Imagining the Imaginary Invalid,’ About Absence and Art Making 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z As Gatiss poses for photographs, suited and booted, he looks like a man out of his time, more than a little like the dotty Edwardian scientist he plays in The First Men in the Moon. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z Cared for by three fairies who are, at best, dotty aunts, a girl alone needs a mother figure, and finds it in Maleficent. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Barnes starts in the stratosphere, with a semi-documentary account of the dotty balloonists who launched themselves into the sky in the late 19th century. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-06T13:00:01Z She is at once both your dotty auntie, gardening in a housecoat and Wellingtons -- and Sid Vicious. In praise of Helena Bonham Carter, fashion tragedy 2011-02-24T16:20:00Z Two dotty spinster aunts euthanize their lonely lodgers, one of their nephews thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, another is a psychopathic killer on the lam, and the third is a drama critic. The Odyssey tries to breathe some fresh air into a dusty, musty 'Arsenic and Old Lace' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z At heart a dotty look at oldsters struggling to adapt to an unwelcoming modernity, “Shadows” has the bones of an anarchic sitcom. Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a Vampire Comedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z As such, Bake Off would clearly love to market him as this year’s dotty old gent. Meet the 2020 Bake Off contestants: can a baker's star rise in a bubble? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Mark’s home life is not without drama; unbeknown to him, since he has no memory of the office, Harmony lives next door, surveilling him in the guise of a dotty neighbor. ‘Severance’ Review: That Makes Two of You 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The show is delivered in a tone of bouncy, puppyish enthusiasm throughout, which telegraphs a little too obviously the personal troubles that dotty Jessie is sublimating. Jessie Cave: Bookworm – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:17:59Z Ms. Laurie’s character is a wily, slightly dotty old woman with a good heart. | 'Hesher': Burn This, Curse That, Wreak Your Havoc 2011-05-12T20:35:27Z Blind Summit's triptych beat off competition from the insanely lovable The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik and the dotty 3D animation show Swamp Juice. Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows 2011-08-28T21:19:00Z Jemima was in charge of the gardens for a long time and comes across as an enlightened but slightly dotty matriarch. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z 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 Were you devastated by the dialogue with the slightly dotty Betty that unleashed, if not a confession from Elizabeth, at least a rare moment of frankness? 'The Americans' Recap: You Should Trust the Organization 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The child and the dotty old lady alone say what they actually want. Review: In ‘The Traveling Lady,’ Hope and Regret Run Neck and Neck 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Despite folksy characters with fragrant names like Sitter Mavis, who must mind her dotty mother, and Clara Breedlove, who radiates maternal warmth, the play is subtler than that. Review: In ‘The Traveling Lady,’ Hope and Regret Run Neck and Neck 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It doesn’t mean people stopped craving warm, fuzzy, slightly dotty depictions of romance. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But the work is filled with rhyme and wordplay, the humor coming from Icarus’s dotty grandmother, not to mention a talented pet cow with a foul mouth. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z She goes from dotty and naïve to cutting and malicious in an instant—she is mean and vulnerable, befuddled and knowing, desperate and self-assured. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He has, however, replaced it with one that is, if anything, even dottier. Crazy For You ? review 2011-08-10T18:00:01Z And yet her ongoing tour-de-force on the awards circuit – playing the dotty aunt, the agent of chaos – is at least its equal. Meryl Streep went one step beyond at the Baftas 2012-02-13T14:09:28Z No longer in command of his once estimable gifts, the increasingly senile Gardner pursues a critical study of other poets with dotty purposefulness but without analytical skills. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z Murphy’s Countess is a dotty, conscientious woman awoken from her comfort and determined to claim it back. Review: In ‘Dear World,’ Donna Murphy Leads a Righteous March 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z As she was getting on in years, Gertrude suspected that she might have gone dotty. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Some singers, Hall observed, supplied skimpy measurements prompted by wishful thinking, while the Italians could be "very difficult at fittings, and some of them quite dotty". Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z One notes the flagrant unlikelihood of the man who most needs this book’s advice accepting it from a gentleman who wears patterned frocks and looks like their dotty Aunt Esther. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z But in this warmly appealing if slightly dotty book, Mr. Johnson is far more interested in wit that slowly simmers and mellowly embraces la comédie humaine. Books of The Times: Laughing Matters: Discuss 2010-12-07T23:00:00Z So he and his doting, often dotty, 94-year-old wife who live in a dark house on an isolated island are busy arranging and rearranging the chairs in expectation of the arrival of a large audience. This week's new theatre 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z But Griffiths's affinity for English Romanticism too easily descends into merely dotty navel-gazing. Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z We pedaled past low hills dotty with sheep, then through the fantastic Raggedy Range. New Zealand by the numbers: Two wheels, eight friends and nearly 600 miles 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z As a dotty resident being surveyed by census-taker Fey, White listed other residents in her apartment as Fluffy, Princess, Tigger and Socks. Betty White: golden hosting 'Saturday Night Live' 2010-05-09T07:09:00Z I love how she is dotty about her animals, "four rescued collies, three horses, and 17 cats". Girl Least Likely To by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-06T13:00:00Z Did this lend him a peculiar Don Quixote quality that might have been appealingly dotty? How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s a satisfying and entertainingly retro production, chock-full of subplots and buoyed by dotty humor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z As a New York society woman who loved singing publicly despite being painfully tone-deaf, Streep was effusively dotty, characteristically empathetic, and a bit mannered. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Jane is a modern teenage girl who is forced into the jungle by her father, who leads an illegal logging expedition - a far cry from the dotty professor in the original. Tarzan rebooted 2012-07-13T08:42:09Z She inventively gets inside the character, playing Arcati with cutting looks and dry replies lobbed at the sophisticates who cynically think she’s a dotty fraud. Ageless Lansbury puts fizz in ‘Blithe Spirit’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Wandering nearby at this very moment, and ready to make trouble, is a dotty old actress named Tilly. Books of The Times: Mystery Is a Thing With Paradoxes 2011-03-16T22:00:09Z As it happens, I'm sympathetic to the motives that impelled Eyres to write his dotty hymn of praise. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z So did a chunk of our dotty heads. Analysis | What’s this? A November without thinking about Alabama? 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Lansbury’s final competitive win — for best featured actress in a play — was for “Blithe Spirit,” a 2009 revival of the Noel Coward comedy in which she played a dotty clairvoyant. Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A British housekeeper with two dotty sisters strangles her boss and takes over the mansion. Movies on TV this week 'Pulp Fiction' on BBC America and IFC 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Either he’s dotty — or he was intentionally tossing chum to the far right, hoping to buoy his reelection chances next year. Opinion | Ron Johnson is a racist 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z A four-time Tony Award winner who brought humanity to larger-than-life characters, whether it be the dotty schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie, an aging opera star Maria Callas or the betrayed, murderous Medea. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Nick Robinson quoted a Today interview with Prince Charles in which he had said sometimes his ideas on the environment were regarded as a bit "dotty". 'Earthshot': William and Attenborough launch prize to save planet 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z What presumably made the cartoon “funny,” but not to me, was that it played on an image of seniors as dotty. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Abraham Lincoln shouldn’t have been described like this 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z There’s a wedding, a feckless young painter and his even younger bride, our dotty narrator, who brings her pet newt Great Warty in her pocket and lets him have a swim in the water jug. Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Corridor’s dotty print similarly sticks to two colors and Drake’s Madras plaid is as cleanly geometric as gingham. Stop Dressing Like Every Guy In America: Give Up Your Gingham Shirts 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It was very difficult because your face was all dotty, but we’re pretty sure this is your Parisian doppelganger in 1884.” Google Arts & Culture: Find a Painting That Sort of Might Resemble You in the Dark - Golf Digest 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z "I think the dotty person now would be the person who doesn't believe in climate change," the Prince added. 'Earthshot': William and Attenborough launch prize to save planet 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Had Moore been elderly at the time, one might have thought him merely dotty — a harmless hybrid of Don Juan and Don Quixote, tilting at maidens in a trance of romantic chivalry. Opinion | The four wonderful words Mitch McConnell said this week 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z And while she made something of a name playing slightly dotty old ladies, the real Liz Smith was far removed from these on-screen personas. Obituary: Liz Smith - BBC News 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z I get a lone peck in the cheek and the occasional snuggle like a dotty old aunt. Should Your Baby Really Sleep in the Same Room as You? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “I’ve been gardening long enough to have lived through the dotty phase, where you have only one of each plant,” she said. The Counterintuitive Way to Create a Gorgeous Garden 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z What are they, and why is everyone suddenly going dotty over them? Why are so many Olympians covered in large red circles? - BBC News 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Comparing the "remain" campaign to those who wanted the UK to join the euro, Kavanagh says they are "deploying the same dotty arguments about Brexit. They were wrong then and they are wrong today". Newspaper headlines: EU 'in' campaign launches, and Facebook tax anger - BBC News 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z They don’t wish you were there, and you don’t wish you were there either — unless you’re dotty about babies. No more selfies, I promise (if you’ll do the same) 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z There are no weak little girls here, and no dotty old ladies either. Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf: a feminist Little Red Riding Hood 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z But even after presenting himself for seven years as the nation’s slightly dotty old uncle who only shows up for Thanksgiving and Christmas, he is still loathed by half the people in the country. Jeb Bush’s terrifying W. strategy: How he’s sucking up to extremist billionaires—with the help of the worst president ever 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z As such, a succession of dotty governesses attempted to educate the girls. The six sisters that captured the maelstrom 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Away from current data, the Fed also downgraded their growth outlook for real GDP in their dotty forecast. FOMC Statement: Downgrading a Phrase to Mean Nothing at All Plus Dots That Don't Add Up 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr Laws said he did not back the continuation of all universal benefits in the current straitened economic climate - suggesting that it was "dotty" that wealthy pensioners were still able to get winter fuel allowance. Universal school meals help 'right' 2013-09-18T16:26:54Z I knew they were dotty about each other. Wartime affair letters published 2013-05-16T13:13:01Z We'd still be dotty over Jane Austen's books if, like her contemporary audience, we never knew her name. Belle de Jour's history of anonymity 2012-12-31T02:34:43Z It was bitty, it was dotty, but the bits made a whole, and we joined the dots. London 2012: Opening ceremony – reviews 2012-07-28T23:07:10Z Jane remembered, as she often did, how once at a friend’s house she had overheard the dotty grandmother asking too loudly who the “plain” one was. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z Doesn't it prove that we mortals all Have gone sheer "dotty"—After the Ball? Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z If I didn't see it I'm going dotty. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z He would swagger through the clubhouse lining up ballplayers so Mrs. Payson, regally dotty under a floppy garden club hat, could review them like the Queen Mum trooping the Household Cavalry. Essay: Remembering the Mets? First Spring in 1962 2012-02-20T01:29:51Z "The pore blokes is gone dotty from the 'eat," said the pitying crowd. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z I think I must be going dotty also. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Jobs ain't easy found by blokes what seems dotty on their pins. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z “Blest if he ain’t gone dotty over that there dog,” he complained. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Dalmatians wait for their turn in the spotlight, hoping the judges are just dotty about them. In pictures 2011-03-13T18:09:50Z “Well, my sister was at the Wingfield-Jacksons’ yesterday, and Mrs. Jackson told her that Charley had seen her walking up the road in her nightgown, so she must be quite dotty, you know.” The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Of course I'm not dotty over her like Amelia's crowd, but she really is great fun, and I like being with her when those girls aren't around. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z The dotty old Morning-in-America charm is what made her Reagan's finest speechwriter, and it also helps explain why no one ever calls her on her dog whistles. No. 10: Peggy Noonan 2010-11-24T12:01:00Z The whole idea – driven, apparently, by the need to get more southern bums on northern seats to fulfil contract pledges – couldn't be dottier. The BBC wants to have breakfast in Salford. What a dog's dinner 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z In the run-up to the election he described plans for an arbitration scheme to judge banks when they refuse lending to small businesses as "dotty" and politically motivated. Richard Lambert steps down early as CBI director general 2010-06-28T23:01:00Z "Old buffer's dotty," whispered the Jew to his neighbor, tapping his head significantly. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 When folks go dotty, they sometimes get extra ’cute. Into the Primitive He'll worry himself dotty when midnight comes on and I don't turn up. The Riddle of the Night "I know I look a Katydid in all this green—but Lewis is just dotty about my wearing green...." Shadows of Flames A Novel It's enough for a fellow to go dotty. A Top-Floor Idyl Failing rapidly; sometimes quite lucid, but, generally speaking, dotty! An Unknown Lover I’m beginning to think I’m dreaming, or going dotty. Tales of South Africa I got a bit nervous—a bit dotty, if you like. The Riddle of the Night "And the dotter makes you dotty," muttered Sam under his breath, yet loudly enough so that the man next to him heard it. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers "Do come and sit with me," she continued, loath to relinquish Colonel Harris's hand after she had shaken it, "I feel that in this solitude I shall go dotty." The Heart of a Woman I told him mother's the one that's dotty or she wouldn't have called him in, and Uncle Jack wasn't a patient and never'd consent if he knew. Old Crow "I'm not dotty, Mo. You'll find it all right, just like I tell you...." When Ghost Meets Ghost He stopped again, and the bored trust officer thought, "The old fellow is worse than ever to-day—getting positively dotty—likes to hear himself talk...." Clark's Field He was getting dotty as he neared his thirties. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 I believe I'm dotty over the old girl. The Prisoner "Now Milly," said Raven, "do I seem to you in the least dotty?" Old Crow “When the voice of Experience and the voice of Wisdom say, ‘Eschew cards, abjure dice, avoid men with lumps on their necks and revolvers in their pockets,’ sapient Youth says, ‘The old man’s goin’ dotty.’ The Tale of Timber Town I came to the conclusion that he was just a dotty old boy who had gone crazy over some girl, and that he was driving out by night to see her. The Man Who Drove the Car Good Lord, Edna!" said Clarence, drawing her aside, "have you gone dotty or what? In Brief Authority Hadn't they as good a chance as any of us to spot that dotty leg. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Do you mean to tell me," she countered, "you believe that now, now you've lived with him and seen he's exactly what he used to be, only more darling—you believe he's broken, dotty? Old Crow I pressed him for his real opinion of me quite frankly, and he said: 'Frankly, I think you're a very pretty woman, and very jolly, but aren't you a bit dotty on some subjects?' The Twelfth Hour Five years ago, when the Wright Brothers first flew, Europe went dotty and began to offer big prizes for stunts in the air. The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia Then they gave me a draught to compose my nerves, they thought really that I was dotty, and I drank it—you must have seen the condition I was in when I got here.” The Man Who Lost Himself As if I could prevent your horse going dotty. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Old Crow was dotty and my nose is like Old Crow's. Old Crow "Do you think," said Lalage at last, "that the Archdeacon could by any chance have gone suddenly dotty in the head?" Lalage's Lovers I think he’s a bit touched in his head—dotty, you know.” Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites She remained as for questions he might ask, but it was wellnigh as if there played through her dotty veil an irrepressible irony for that particular one. The Finer Grain The old chap must have gone dotty," he remarked presently; "they're often taken this way when they get to a certain age. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar As to Nan, she seemed to Raven the one sane thing in a bewildered world; and for himself: "I'm blest if I believe I'm so dotty, after all," he mused. Old Crow "Have you gone dotty? or what?" enquired her bewildered husband. Short Cruises How to propose is all my task, Whether to write or just to ask, And ere I solve the problem knotty I really fear I shall go dotty. The Princess of the School But at Edwin, as they were leaving, he smiled in a quite peculiar way, and that smile clearly meant: “Your father goes dotty, and the first thing he does is to change his politics.” Clayhanger “They only let the very dotty ones in,” said Mr Evans. Tom, Dick and Harry And when it comes to the feed—why, say, it's a reg'lar course dinner, such as you'd put up a dollar for at any of these high-class table dotty ranches. Torchy Seven of the boys have their graves in that spot; then the wounded and those who went dotty. The Red Horizon "Take me to his office, oh, please take me," she begged, with such earnestness that Tom wondered if she'd gone "clean dotty." Red-Robin I was kind of dotty then, I guess. From the Housetops When the sun is bright but spotty Diarists become more dotty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 He's either gone dotty or he's been drinking. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton He was dotty for cowboys when he was a boy. Craphound Remember how she was always sort of dotty on Sir Walter Raleigh? The Vehement Flame George, very much perturbed, went so far as to declare to Lutie in the seclusion of their bedroom that night, that Anne was certainly dotty. From the Housetops "Oh, I tell you, I'm almost dotty over that sister myself." The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary My old man's fair dotty on Gladstone and it's his birthday to-morrow. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton I understand the sense of "oils are spotty"; I know the height of Siniolchum's peak; I know that some may think my ditty dotty; But I cannot tell a bubble from a squeak. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 "Malaria comes on me, every spring, you know ... harder than usual, this spring, though ... it's made me dotty ... made me say things, at times, I'm afraid!" Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Usual, at the end of about seven years, a sheepherder goes plumb dotty, and we either have to shoot him, or send him to Leavenworth. Heart's Desire Not going "a bit dotty," but in excellent form. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 "He's gone dotty!" the auctioneer decided, as he turned back towards his sanctum. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton Why, sir, it's the first time you've ever been away from me since you took me on; and the dreams I've had is enough to drive a body fair dotty. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces I forgot to tell you that my new bonnet flares a great deal, and that I have white lace quilling round the face with little black dotty things in it on stems. Real Folks You never will be anything but Buster Jack--half dotty, selfish as hell, bull-headed and mean!... The Mysterious Rider "Say, aire ye gittin' plumb dotty?" asked Bud, when he got Ted out of hearing. Ted Strong's Motor Car Now Law, the Old Antic, seems utterly frantic, absurdly romantic and maundering; And Cool Common Sense has gone dotty and dense, in dim deserts of Sentiment wandering. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 "I don't wonder sheep herders go dotty," said he aloud. The Rules of the Game "Children cried when you came away, and gave you dotty little things they'd made themselves?" Hillsboro People I don't know how you fellows feel; but I'm just going dotty. Back to Methuselah "I'm gone dotty!" he said to his soul. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) Well, sir, he's a bit dotty about me, as you might say. Mr. Prohack He had been mad in that other room, quite dotty. The Secret City He couldn't make out what was the matter with it, only that "It looks a bit dotty." My Brilliant Career He'd got into that way of thinking, sort of dotty on the subject anyhow. The Bent Twig And when I said: "What do you mean, it seems to me you must have gone dotty this morning," she laughed like anything and said: "Don't you see, December 27th, Holy Innocents' Day!" A Young Girl's Diary My first thought was that Home Forces had gone dotty, for this kind of show could have no sort of training value. Mr. Standfast You deserted once before without even saying good-by; and my hand in the fire, you'll come back this time dotty with opium. Moran of the Lady Letty For himself Mr. Jackson had chosen the part of Oswald, a youth who goes quite dotty at the last for reasons which are better not talked about. Ruggles of Red Gap She's quite dotty on the subject, and the people out here are simpler than Easterners, anyhow. The Sisters-In-Law But latterly, they tell me, he has become more interested in the nervous ward,—what he calls the 'dotty' ward,—where there are chiefly convalescent children or incurable nervous diseases of children. Together I guess I am—nearly as dotty as she is about Dyckman. We Can't Have Everything As we went aft, Stubbins remarked that he thought the business must have made him a bit dotty. The Ghost Pirates If you can't have a little fit, on the rare occasions when you see a snake, without fools saying you are ill or dotty or something, it is a pity! Snake and Sword A Novel He was quite sure now that Furneaux was, as he put it, "dotty." The Postmaster's Daughter "Have you gone dotty? or what?" inquired her bewildered husband. Short Cruises And now you come back with this dotty pipe-dream that he knows what became of your plans! Out of the Primitive "It's knocked 'im dotty, strikes me," said one of the men, audibly. The Ghost Pirates You die dotty in about five minutes if I don't see fit to stop. Snake and Sword A Novel I was so dotty about it that I even hunted up one of the chaps in charge and asked him who the girl was. Kent Knowles: Quahaug "This poor fellow is dotty," he said good-humouredly to the crowd. The Ball and the Cross The old lady upstairs must be either deaf or dotty.' The Beetle I thought at first he'd gone dotty an' was cussin' him; but somehow it don't seem likely, now I come to think. The Ghost Pirates Fritz is going it strong; he's afraid of an attack, he's going dotty. Under Fire: the story of a squad For the moment I began to believe I really was going dotty, as Auntie fears. Kent Knowles: Quahaug He would shake his head and say, "Dotty, poor old chap, dotty!" Simon the Jester I verily believe I was beginning to get dotty over it all. The Jewel of Seven Stars "E's my gentleman friend; is 'e gone dotty, or is it me?" The Enchanted Castle Maybe a little dotty, as I called Al. The Man of the Forest My respected aunt tells me I'm quite dotty on bridge. Kent Knowles: Quahaug "Here, you people, don't stand there gawking like a lot of dotty chumps!" cried the secretary, striving to whip them out of the mood of horror into which they had fallen. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Seems to be a bit dotty, if you ask me.” Diary of a Pilgrimage He was dotty—that's what was the matter with him, dotty with love for rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed little Daisy. The Lodger Mebbe I am a dotty old fool—'specially for takin' a shine to you. The Man of the Forest I must be going dotty, it's the strain of expecting a bullet in my back all the time, I suppose. The Bittermeads Mystery |
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