I told hurriedly of the appearance of the figure upon the stone table on the previous evening, but before I had time to tell of the note, the doddering old imbecile interrupted.

'I was a wretch,' he said, 'blind, besotted, imbecile.' 'No, no, no.

She had been weak and ailing and in bed ever since her return from London, and this had proved the last straw, and now she lay, a childish imbecile, in her gorgeous bedroom up-stairs.

'Shall we be a race of clever crocks, or shall we give up civilisation and education and be robust imbeciles?' 'Either,' I said, 'will be an improvement on the present régime, of crocky imbeciles.'

She thinks me an elderly imbecile with a flat and reedy singing-voice, and she is perfectly right.

Tall, svelte, graceful, lovely in line and contour, she was remarkably like one of those exquisite imbeciles that Rossetti used to love to paint.

When I got in this morning and saw what that fat imbecile had done to you I tipped the true facts off to the othersall of the facts I knew.

But the eyes of the master of the house became round and white, and he bellowed: "O filthy imbecile, who gave you the right to betroth our daughter to a wine merchant?

The old man went hobbling away, wondering, perhaps, when he would meet another foreign imbecile on the tramp, and I was soon alone upon the margin of the river's broad bed of sand, strewn with pebbles like the seashore.

But they are always classed with children, as sort of helpless imbeciles who must be kept from danger and discomfort.

'My little Riou,' I said, 'do you know that you are a little imbecile with your piety?

" "Ah, but, my dearest, who loves you more than any human tongue can tell?" "A peculiarly obstinate and lovely imbecile," says Manuel; and he did that which seemed suitable.

paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless^, marrowless^, pithless^, lustless^; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled &c (in difficulty) 704; helpless, unfriended^, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat [Fr.], laid on the shelf.

paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless^, marrowless^, pithless^, lustless^; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled &c (in difficulty) 704; helpless, unfriended^, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat [Fr.], laid on the shelf.

'Shall we be a race of clever crocks, or shall we give up civilisation and education and be robust imbeciles?' 'Either,' I said, 'will be an improvement on the present régime, of crocky imbeciles.'

" "No, I hate him, the absurd imbecile, with his fine boots and plumes, and tragedy airs.

On the other hand, certain bodies and sources of inland water hold something deleterious to the thyroid, so that whole populations in Europe, Asia and America drinking such water have become goitrous and cretinous, and a large percentage straight imbeciles.