He was doddering about between his bed and the fire, laying out the most imposing parkis and fox-skins, fur blankets, and a pair of seal-skin mittens, all of which, apparently, he had had secreted under his bed, or between it and the wall.

The ribbon grass is "Our Lady's garters," and the dodder supplies her "laces."

I would be a village "character" of the sort that is justly said to "dodder."

And the judicious would shun observation by me, or, if it befell them, would affect an intense preoccupation lest I halt and dodder to them of a past unromantically barren.

This tottering, doddering, slobbering, sniffling old man is in lovehe is about to wed a young, beautiful girl.

So Nogam dived into the Underground, to come to the surface again at St. James's Park station, whence he trotted all the way to Queen Anne's Gate, arriving at his destination in a phase of semi-prostration which a person of advancing years and doddering habits might have anticipated.

How often and sadly we repeat the life story of the yellow dodder of the moist lanes of my lower farm.

The other side was low scrubprickly shrubs like acacias and mimosas, covered with a creeping vine with brilliant yellow hair (we had seen it already from the ship, gilding large patches of the slopes), most like European dodder.

] geriatrics, nostology^. V. be aged &c adj.; grow old, get old &c adj.; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.

Such a one is the Dodder, which sends its roots directly into the plant on which it feeds.

Here, advancing toward us with the gait of a doddering grandsire, would be a boy in his teens, bent double and clutching his middle with both hands.

For the spleen, maidenhair, finger-fern, dodder of thyme, hop, the rind of ash, betony.

Stoechas, fumitory, dodder, herb mercury, roots of capers, genista or broom, pennyroyal and half-boiled cabbage, I find in this catalogue of purgers of black choler, origan, featherfew, ammoniac

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.

When Alice was called, and when she stood up in the box, and, smiling indulgently at the doddering usher, kissed the book as if it had been a chubby nephew, a change came over the emotional atmosphere of the court, which felt a natural need to smile.

When I got home I happened to say to Mother: 'I saw poor old Biddy Maloney doddering round that wretched field as I came along'.

'Tweer I that laid him out, poor aad fellow, and a dow man he was when aught went cross wi' him; and he cursed and sweared, twad gar ye dodder to hear him.

I say that, here at last, he had done a knightly deed, but she thought little of it, never raised her head as the troop clattered from Mauléon, with a lessening beat which lapsed now into the blunders of an aging fly who doddered about the window yonder.

On each side of the winding road spread the bright green turf, occasionally shaded by picturesque groups of doddered oaks.

Being himself the son of a doctor, he did not dodder through life amazed at the splendid eminence he had climbed to, which is the weakness of Scottish students when they graduate, and often for fifty years afterwards.

You doddering idiots, I'd shoot your heads off for two bits I Try to rob a countryman, will you?

It's suthing betwixt jim-jams and doddering idjiocy.

As I unroll my panorama I may totter, but I hope I shall not dodder.

I don’t mind telling you that there are times when I think you a thoroughly bad lot, and then again I question my judgment and don’t give you credit for being much more than a doddering fool.”

Hénaultonce notorious for his dinner-parties, and for having written an historical treatisewhich, it is true, was worthless, but he had written itHénault was beginning to dodder, and Voltaire, grinning in Ferney, had already dubbed him 'notre délabré Président.'