66 examples of dotards in sentences

Hence the contemptuous term of "kidney-eaters," synonymous with dotard.

you bear, I believe, outside, the fame of a wise and a firm man; but in these little hands you have been as weak a fool as the veriest dotard might have been;and may be yet.

Hew down a withered tree, And none look grave but dotards.

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.

Significant truly, that in his old age Solomon the wise should love strange women, and deserting for their sakes the God of his fathers, end as an idolater and a dotard, worshipping the abominations of the heathen, his once world-famous wisdom sunk into utter folly.

The next day an officer came to me, and roughly told me that the empress had no use for dotards in her dominions, and that the sooner I went away the better for me.

In revenge for the insults heaped upon the Jew by the dotards and dastards of the city of Constantine, I sought out an instrument of compendious ruin.

The Characters in this little volume are of a Ballad Maker, a Tapster, a Drunkard, a Rectified Young Man, a Young Novice's New Younger Wife, a Common Fiddler, a Broker, a Jovial Good Fellow, a Humourist, a Malapert Young Upstart, a Scold, a Good Wife, and a Self-Conceited Parcel-Witted Old Dotard.

What snivellers, what dotards, when they suffer themselves to be run away with by it!An unpermanent passion!

Tom had his own opinion, gathered from Grace's seemingly guilty face, and to it he held, and called old Willis, in his heart, a simple-minded old dotard, who had been taken in by her hypocrisy.

You have already set down Grace Harvey as a hypocrite, and Willis as a dotard.

Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: 260 In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower; With listless eyes the dotard views the store He views, and wonders that they please no more.

Thunder and lightning now for wit are play'd, And shortly scenes in Lapland will be laid: Art magic is for poetry profess'd; And cats and dogs, and each obscener beast, To which Egyptian dotards once did bow, Upon our English stage are worshipp'd now.

"With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more.

Weak-hearted dotard!

I have prayed God that I may die before they bring me to the dotard's bed.

Sure, Love these dotards dooms to jealous pain, And the world's laugh, when all their toil proves vain.

Those qualities are certainly found in an old dotard.

But, whatever are the causes, it is certain that the government is at once powerful and detestedalmost without apparent support, yet difficult to overthrow; and the submission of Rome to a dotard and a boy can no longer excite the wonder of any one who reflects on what passes in France.

Wit is a creeping dotard, and Happiness he is in poor health

Distinguished as it is by puerile desires and pursuits, by a failure of the memory, a deficiency of the judgment, and a general obliteration of the mental powers, its external signs are easily appreciated, and furnish at once abundant reason why, like idiots and madmen, the superannuated dotard is unfit to be the recipient of our mystic instructions.

and the world full of drivellers and dotards, that it would gladly be quit of.

" Bobby informed M'Gurk that he was a fool and a dotard, and cast him forth.

No longer did his nerves obey his will; and now the crazy whims of dotards dominated him.

And finally this dotard, Don Manrique, If he was once my guardian, is he still?

66 examples of  dotards  in sentences