| 单词 | second childhood |
| 例句 | A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Symptoms of second childhood— what do they call it?—senility? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "I guess it's his second childhood, in a way," he said. Old-time radio convention meets for last time 2011-10-21T20:29:13Z My dad has recently become part of the family of Velour – in the drag community people talk about “chosen family” – which was part of my second childhood growing up as a drag queen. Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z This was no gimmick; it felt more like an invitation to innocence, and a rather wonderful second childhood. Margaret Leng Tan, making serious music on a toy piano Kanreki means “return to the calendar” — the event is considered a rebirth, a return to a second childhood. In Tokyo, Following Elders to Bargains 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z “There is such a thing as a second childhood,” Mr. Hollerbach added, explaining how his paintings changed. Artists Who Lose Their Vision, Then See Clearly 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps as one advances into second childhood one recovers something of first childhood's appetite for treats. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z "But you are in second childhood, Michael," I tell myself. Michael Morpurgo on keeping right on to the end 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z And so we filled that gap with a lot of leisure activities and this frenzied pursuit of a second childhood. Bringing Older Americans Back Into the Fold 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “My dad made a lot of money and had a second childhood,” Moskowitz said. Nicole Holofcener’s Human Comedies 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z This is why it was called a second childhood. Dealing With Ma’s Dementia, and That Trip Out West 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z He calls this time of remembering his second childhood as memories flood in of his past that he hasn’t thought of in years. Kenly man recalls past through canvas, paper 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The loss forces this bubbling man-child out from the guarded citadel of his second childhood into the rude, rough world. 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' is an oddly comic odyssey 1985-08-09T04:00:00Z Maybe I’m getting older and just going back to my second childhood,” Lloyd Webber said, laughing. Auditions for ‘School of Rock’ attracts pint-sized musicians 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z As with that other great 21st-century franchise The Lord of the Rings, the filming took a long time and served as a kind of second childhood for its cast and crew. Sam Claflin: ‘I hate being offered heart-throb after heart-throb’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z She also referred to her mother’s second childhood, but the phrase was removed by the editors of the letters page, who worried it was insensitive. The New Old Age Blog: A Family Ritual Gains New Life 2013-06-14T18:11:11Z "Is that all, Miss ——?" inquired the only boy of the party, unless you except the approach to second childhood ensconced behind the newspaper, and now acting the amiable part of reporter, for your benefit. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z What more threatening spectacle for second childhood is there than first childhood? Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Postum does taste like a ferociously mild coffee—a coffee reduced to second childhood, the prattle of senility. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z But when the blade was withdrawn from his grasp he sank ever lower into the second childhood of senility. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z In our conversation, she mused about the notion of a second childhood as set forth in “As You Like It,’’ in which Shakespeare defines the seven ages of man, from infancy to advanced old age. The New Old Age Blog: A Family Ritual Gains New Life 2013-06-14T18:11:11Z The Dumpy Philosopher fancied the region of twenty; the Gentle Shepherd thought the neighbourhood of forty; while Squinting Jack suggested second childhood. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z The seniority rule, by which committee chairmanships went not to ability but to long service, favored mediocrity and second childhood. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z —There we Solicit pleasure, hopeless of success; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood; and devote old age To sports which only childhood could excuse. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z P�re Michel had a pleasant smile, with just enough of second childhood to be guileless, not foolish. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z It prevailed till the middle of the seventeenth century, and may be considered the second childhood of Church Architecture; and it was certainly far inferior to the first. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z “I guess it’s his second childhood, in a way,” he said. Old-time radio convention signing off after 36 years as march of time takes its toll 2011-10-21T21:14:15Z They are foolish old women, Constance; they are in their second childhood. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z As I approach a second childhood I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.... English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z “Well,” she said, “you should not be in your second childhood—at your age.” Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It has made me feel that I ought to go to school again, for I must be getting into my second childhood. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Materialists may labour much At problems for the modern stage; His simpler methods reach and touch The Young of ev'ry age; And first and second childhood meet On common ground at Barrie's feet! More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z "Yes, truly, when I have reached my second childhood," he replied. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z He himself said he never had looked really young, not even at his baptism--as his baptismal certificate would prove--and wasn't likely to grow much younger now till he arrived at his second childhood. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z It would have needed an energetic hand to hold these passions in check; and Charles VI. was a gentle-natured child, twelve years of age, who attained his majority only to fall into a second childhood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z “No, I am not in my second childhood, Billy,” he said quietly. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z In the venerable picture of the Censor, we have no traces of second childhood, or of the slippered pantaloon, or of that melancholy and almost frightful representation, in the tenth satire of Juvenal. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Here was infancy, nude and needy, reaching out its dirty little hands; and second childhood bent and tottering, with palsied palm extended, eying you with all the mute wistfulness of a starved spaniel. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z You are certainly getting into your second childhood,” said Bess, with disgust. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z Am I sinking into a literal second childhood, in which all the terrors and the sanctities that once froze or stirred my soul have come to possess me once more? Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Poor old General Winfield Scott was then verging toward senility, and second childhood, and had contributed no little, perhaps, to Mr. Lincoln’s alarm. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z If it comes to the worst I hope to God I shall; none of your scarlet second childhoods for me! The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z And Aunt Dorine pointed to Constance, always failing to recognize her, with the stubbornness of second childhood. Small Souls But take care of yourself; a man’s second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.” The Little Minister When old age—second childhood, takes vigor away, Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl 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 How must ill-boding horrors fill her breast, When she beholds men mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plung'd from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The older my father grew, the more the idea haunted him of going with "Zack" out to the banks of the Ohio, until, as second childhood crept on him, it became a ruling whim. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 I should translate from experience: "Flabbergasted; astounded and bewildered at the same time, with a slight dash of premature second childhood thrown in." The Brightener It may be quite right that we sometimes speak of second childhood, because we must be children before we are grown; and the life to come must find us, will find us, ready for service. Old Friends and New I know that you will tell me that I am an old fool to wish to write sonnets, but since many say that I am in my second childhood, I have sought to act accordingly. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol. IX (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings Why, the man must be in second childhood. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The old doter, in his second childhood, makes for himself some idol, some palpable, tangible god, and the coarser it is, the better he succeeds. Priests, Women, and Families Yet in old age it may seem charming again, as if second childhood brought with it a second innocence. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome I feel as though I were having my second childhood. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted Hamilton and Madison were "mere boys" and "visionary young men"; Franklin was an "old dotard" and "in his second childhood"; and as for Washington, "What did he know about politics?" Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools "I got no father; and mother's in her second childhood." Coquette She began to unbutton a patched cotton umbrella,—her lips moving as people's do sometimes in the beginning of second childhood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 It ran roughly along the same directions as old Broadway, not because there was no one who could read the yellowed old maps but because surveying was in its second childhood. The Barbarians This does not apply to formul� got by rote, which are stages on the road to nowhere but second childhood and the grave. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Late Roman art reminds us of the art of Etruria in its archaic days, except that the freshness and promise are wanting, and that the one was in its first, the other its second childhood. Needlework As Art The judge, without knowing it, was prejudiced against me, and I noted that he was in his second childhood. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales She must have passed into her second childhood. Our Next-Door Neighbors "Nay, but this is second childhood," quoth the venerable Jacob Sasportas, chief Rabbi of the English Jews, as he sat in the presidential pew, an honored visitor at Hamburg. Dreamers of the Ghetto "What Tincup needs is a dose of second childhood," "Butter Fingers" prescribes one day. Interference and Other Football Stories Natalya took an absorbing interest in these nursery tales, heard for the first time in her second childhood. Ghetto Comedies We like the second childhood of the grandfather better than the premature old age of the grandson. Practical Education, Volume I The negligible minority not in khaki appeared to be in extremis or second childhood. The Orchard of Tears Then there were Hamilton and Madison, mere boys; and Franklin, an old dotard, a man in his second childhood. The Critical Period of American History In 1900, directed against the crapulous exoticism of contemporary literature, it was an antidote, childhood was being used as a medicine against an assumed attack of second childhood. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study You are so light, so devoted to your frivolous amusements; you seem to be drifting into second childhood, thirty years too soon. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice It may be quite right that we sometimes speak of second childhood, because we must be children before we are grown, and the life to come must find us, ready for service. An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales She was rather huffed at the idea of my calling them ‘nursery hours,’ and wanted to know if I meant that she was in her second childhood. Happy-Thought Hall "Come," she said, "the Marquis is sinking into his second childhood, and his follies irritate me." The Son of Monte-Cristo ‘Besides, having been told my wits would go, how did I know but that they were a symptom of my second childhood?’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Now, in her second youth—not second childhood—she is mainly a lace-worker and midwife. A Poor Man's House "We're all returning to our second childhood up here, you see!" The Long Trick "Pooh! old Badger is in his second childhood," said Arnold, trying to make light of the affair; "he must mean the great deluge." Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark In general, boys and girls dislike the mode of play they have just outgrown, but the adult often comes again to find the greatest pleasure in the simpler forms, and this without reaching second childhood. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium He was in his second childhood, but knew enough to usher us into the kitchen and ask us to wait for the landlord's arrival. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland By special privilege, for her might be created in this farewell dream, a second childhood, innocent as the first; but not, like that, sad with the gloom of a fearful mission in the rear. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 And if a king such order gave, In second childhood, passion's slave, What son within his heart would lay The senseless order, and obey? The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse In the moonlight we could see them dimly, and at a little distance they looked like masses of ruins—the second childhood of houses. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic He's sixty, if you call that young, and in his second childhood. The Bishop's Secret So is it with nations, as with men who have passed the age of their strength, and reached the period of senility and second childhood. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Now charity forefend, for so should I bring thee to thy second childhood. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 His childhood at Dr. Strong’s is a second childhood. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The spectacle of a great mind losing itself at length in the feebleness of age, almost the imbecility of second childhood, might well, they consider, have been withdrawn from the vulgar gaze. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles Certainly they had not reached their second childhood, for they stepped forth and held out their hands for their pay as steadily as the best of the young ones. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines There were, indeed, “matches” in the house, but there were no children, except one old lady, who, having reached her second childhood, might perhaps have been regarded as a child. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade In youth, all energy; in prime of life, all enterprise and vigour; in senility, all weakness and second childhood. The King's Own I know, indeed, that some say I am passing into my second childhood. My New Curate Who sees not an Epoch's Angel Fall From hope for earth, in Wilson's truth, beguiled By second childhood's toys to play with thrall? Freedom, Truth and Beauty Doge! this vacillation is unworthy A child; if you are not in second childhood, Call back your nerves to your own purpose, nor Thus shame yourself and me. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 He was a picture of that most lamentable decay, when the mind precedes the body on the way to second childhood. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Our civilization has outgrown them, and will not, even in second childhood, take to such playthings. A Hero and Some Other Folks "Going back" was to bring on my second childhood prematurely. My Friend the Chauffeur There are many matters in the recollections of our earliest years so minute that to speak of them is only becoming to second childhood. Confessions of Boyhood "Probably getting into my second childhood," Colonel Hampton grunted. Dearest He lapsed into a state of second childhood, and, being deprived of the drugs which formerly had excited him to a state of frenzy, sank into a pitiable condition. The Silent House The brilliant scholar fell into a second childhood, and might be seen muttering to himself as he rambled with cloak and long staff through the streets of Rome. The Great Book-Collectors The master was cracked; he was in his second childhood! Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Trumpeton Wood belonged to that old friend of ours, the Duke of Omnium, who had now almost fallen into second childhood. Phineas Redux 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 In old age, the second childhood, the difference of sex becomes of as little note as it was during the first. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Thank goodness, I'm not in my second childhood yet. Enter Bridget The Slaying of the Wooers, xxx that admirable fight, worthy of a saga, he thinks too improbable, and one of the “trifles into which second childhood is apt to be betrayed.” On the Sublime This phenomenon reappears in the second childhood of old age, when the power of reflection is weakened, and there is a reversion to the primitive animal condition. Myth and Science An Essay There is a certain kind of woman whose brain develops with amazing normality and strength, but whose heart remains very soft-fibered and uncertain, with tendencies to lapse into second childhood. The Golden Bird He is growing old, I suppose, and trembling on the brink of second childhood, so we must not blame him. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." I have sometimes thought that the very idea of second childhood is itself a prophecy of the soul's eternal youth. The Ascent of the Soul How must ill-boding horrors fill their breast, When she beholds men, mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plung'd from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 He kept chewing disconnected words between his toothless gums; it was the mumbling of an old man who had sunk into second childhood, and whom it's impossible to understand. His Masterpiece They look like so many grandfathers in their second childhood. True Stories of History and Biography "Old age sometimes becomes second childhood; why should not filial piety become parental love?" The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji I suppose you think by this time, bub, that I'm in my second childhood, and playing dime novel. The Ramrodders A Novel He was in his second childhood, no doubt. Lazarre Chartres, that city of the dead, had changed to a vast nursery; in the extravagance of its joy the town was in its second childhood. The Cathedral The night was by then far from young, in fact it was well into its second childhood. Living Alone Of Socrates's and Plato's "following after truth" nothing remained but the gossipy curiosity of a second childhood, living only to tell or to hear some new thing. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 He might be known as the man of the second childhood par excellence. Aspects of Literature And she dreamed of once again being his healer, of accomplishing by the sole power of her little hands the cure of the second childhood in which he remained. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Walpole himself declared at the age of seventy-three: “My best wisdom has consisted in forming a baby-house full of playthings for my second childhood.” The Art of Letters "He thinks me in my second childhood or out of my head," Mrs. Galland explained with a shade of tartness. The Last Shot It came to pass, the monarch died; and Poor Rozoko, now reduced to second childhood, wailed most dismally:—no one slept that night in Hooloomooloo. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The firm, vigorous intellect had overripened into the mental mellowness of second childhood. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians I am nearly toothless, and in my second childhood. The Personal Life of David Livingstone I have heard that very bad men soon reach their second childhood and act foolishly. Don Orsino But this second childhood is not like the first; it is as melancholy as the other is joyous. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations It is true that certain conditions of idiocy and imbecility do resemble that phase of insanity known as dementia—a reversion to the original mental state of childhood—in reality a form of second childhood. Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population My Schoolfellows he intends reading again when he has reached his second childhood, when he fancies he will be better pleased with the humours of "Guzzling Gus" and "Ned Never Mind." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 6, 1890 "I'll think you have reached your second childhood if you ever let me hear of anything like it again," declared his sister. The Boy Allies in Great Peril Or, With the Italian Army in the Alps I like a mother will protect thee now, The second childhood of the gray old man. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes We always knew, I think, that there was an aged mother; now why did I take for granted that she must be in her second childhood? Fated to Be Free When the circle is almost ended, and all the momentum of threescore-and-ten is gained, why not pass the line and enter into second childhood? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator The old man's long white hair had not commenced falling out; and his cheeks still bloomed with a ruddiness that does not belong to second childhood. Round the Block One white-haired old fellow, in his second childhood, reached out and caught at her dress, as she passed by. The Gate of the Giant Scissors As old age comes on and the bodily functions decay, the mind decays also, until age passes into senility, and body and mind sink into second childhood. Annie Besant An Autobiography At first I seemed to live a second childhood. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography 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 No doubt he will take charge of her, if she is overtaken by her second childhood whilst he is there. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage If it had become permanently a part of him, he had reached his second childhood, which for a man of thirty-five is a disturbing thought. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life Old as the race, it has always been in fashion on the earth, the delight of every clime from the Orient to the Occident, and of every age from childhood to second childhood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 You must have fallen into second childhood to think of printing such rambling hasty scrawls as I write. Letters from the Cape In this state of second childhood, it had an air of being in its own way garrulous about its early life. Our Mutual Friend Do you imagine I am in my second childhood? Dombey and Son Timid, with the timidity of their second childhood, constrained and embarrassed by each other's presence, they were, nevertheless, in a little Elysium of their own creating. McTeague "In short, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood," said poor Mr. Casaubon, with some bitterness. Middlemarch He's getting old, and he's come along into his second childhood. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation "The old fool is in his second childhood." The Mystery of the Four Fingers We were very melancholy over this for a long time, and, to the end of his placid days of second childhood passed with us, we never allowed Mr. Stewart to learn of it. In the Valley At such times they passed each other with averted eyes, pretending a certain preoccupation, suddenly seized with a great embarrassment, the timidity of a second childhood. McTeague The honoured testator was reflected upon: a second childhood was attributed to him; and I was censured, as having taken advantage of it. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 In this, at least, it is a second childhood; and my father is very old, Lotta. Charlotte's Inheritance They seem formed for days, and months, and years of watchfulness—not only over our earliest infancy, but also over our first and second childhood. The Young Woman's Guide He considered his grandfather's nonsense indelicate, even for second childhood, and he thought that the sooner the subject was dropped the better. The Magnificent Ambersons How must ill-boding horrors fill her breast, When she beholds men mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plunged from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night! Poetical Works God sometimes gives to good men a guileless and holy second childhood, in which the soul becomes childlike, not childish, and the faculties in full fruit and ripeness are mellow without sign of decay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics It is the aged hen, who is in her dotage, and whose eggs, also, are in their second childhood. Remarks Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.—Barrie. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day I'm talking to myself as though I'd reached my second childhood. Tom of the Raiders The patriarch's faith in it had come to be considered a mere doting second childhood vagary, just as the tradition of the Golden Age was held to be by the later Greeks. Darkness and Dawn Women did not all regard her with envy, all young men did not think she was capital fun, nor did all old men come and confide to her the weaknesses of their approaching second childhood. An American Politician In that moment in the sacristy I matured so completely that I reached my second childhood at once! Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts Her small, shrivelled, finely wrinkled face, silvery hair, toothless mouth, the nose almost touching her chin, and her thin, wasted form, indicated the presence of second childhood. An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 Villanous old age that, with second childhood, brings linked hand in hand her inseparable twin, new inexperience, which knows not effects of liquor. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 His mind is much impaired, for he has attained his second childhood; yet from his disconnected remarks, it is evident that he still retains a pleasant remembrance of the past. Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds It was on the strength of such abrupt questions that strangers were apt to think that the Khan had fallen into his second childhood before his time. The Broken Road There are cases in which nature supplies a third set of teeth in old age, thereby apparently demonstrating the fact that that period of life is a second childhood. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims By special privilege, for her might be created, in this farewell dream, a second childhood, innocent as the first; but not, like that, sad with the gloom of a fearful mission in the rear. Miscellaneous Essays In advanced age, the necessity for sleep again increases, till we reach the extremest old age, or what is usually called second childhood, when we again sometimes sleep nearly the whole time. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health And he sank into a sort of second childhood, clasping his hands and stammering plaintively, terrified, and beseeching compassion, like one whose sufferings are too hard to bear. Fruitfulness The grossness of the features lessens, a number of the pains go, muscular endurance increases, memory and intelligence do not remind one so forcibly of the old dotard in his second childhood. The Glands Regulating Personality And even in the case of Kant, I suspect that the second childhood of his last four years was due to overwork in later life, and after he had succeeded in becoming a famous man. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims The daughters of music were brought low with her, but, in the last thin treble of second childhood, she trembled forth mild complaints of her neighbours' troubles, but very little of her own. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine The family were still in the Holborn lodgings,—the mother an invalid, the father sinking into a second childhood. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb He had previously been sinking into a state of second childhood, the outcome of his life of fast and furious pleasure. Fruitfulness The baldness over the temples had joined hands and left isolated over the centre of the forehead a small tuft of hair, which, with the playfulness of second childhood, showed a tendency to curl. The Hampstead Mystery One day his nephew, young Jimmy Sprang, met him on the street and proceeded to twit him about his second childhood. Her Weight in Gold They call it a second childhood, don't they, sir? Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Sit down there and leave the ox to the children and us old folks in our second childhood. Stray Pearls Perhaps you believe me to be in my second childhood. Seven Icelandic Short Stories All such propositions are old—old as the hills, I assure you; and these days in which you live are more suggestive of the second childhood of the world than its progressive prime. Ardath He refused to speak of his former fame, and when Claude Lantier called on him the old man seemed to be entering into a second childhood, forgetful of his past. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; People would conclude me in my second childhood. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 No matter; they will go under the article of my dotage-and very properly-I began with tales of my nursery, and prove that I have been writing in my second childhood. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 "What about second childhood?" laughed the irrepressible Mavis. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl He has reached his second childhood When he’s lived a year. Yesterdays When I was forty years of age my father was in his second childhood; but I do not remember ever having raised my voice above his. The Widow Lerouge Make allowances for two old people entering second childhood. Who Cares? a story of adolescence My heart to second childhood they beguiled * No wonder: love sick-man again is child! The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 Or else it's her second childhood—" "First, you mean. Rebecca Mary I guess I must be havin' an early spring of second childhood. Cy Whittaker's Place You remember just now you twitted me with living in the second childhood of the world. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance This yellow baby, in his ample pinafore, who lived thousands of years ago, who has now passed into this strange second childhood. Idle Ideas in 1905 But you really mustn't think I'm an invalid, or—or in my second childhood. The Return Will knew that hard-featured, wiry old man, now entering his second childhood and beginning to limp painfully. Main-Travelled Roads She did not look very old, and her face was a pleasant, round one; but she was white-haired and, as one could detect at the first glance, quite in her second childhood. The Idiot His inventive faculties and his plausible eloquence were no more; and he seemed to have sunk into second childhood. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 When I come to my second childhood, I mean to turn paddyfield farmer myself. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan I know I'm an old codger, but I ain't in my second childhood, not yet. Thankful's Inheritance Towards the close of his life Chateaubriand was almost in his second childhood. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Well, he's pretty nigh his second childhood now, judgin' by the way he acts sometimes. Mary-'Gusta With these distinguished leaders all the noblest and most opulent members of their church concurred, except Lord Arundell of Wardour, an old man fast sinking into second childhood. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Then comes the dotage of the fine arts, a second childhood, as feeble as the former, and far more hopeless. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 In those days everything had a name, from the mud mangers to the heel-ropes; for things were people to Adam, exactly as people are things to folk in their second childhood. The Day's Work - Part 01 Did you ever know a family, or, rather, the relics of a family, where there was just a decrepit old father and a lone daughter left to nurse him through his second childhood? Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) You were passing into your second childhood, were you? Majorie Daw Any of these crimes may be committed by a person not in his right mind, or in the second childhood of old age. Laws The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare "I am not in my second childhood yet, Richard," he replied, testily. Miss or Mrs? The Cardinal muttered, "He hears me not; sorrow hath brought him to second childhood!" and looking back, motioned to Luca Savelli to approach. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes We shall not consider that degree of old age which is called second childhood. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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