What an idiot he'd been not to take the hot grog and the hot bath, and leave these people to fight their foolishness out among themselves!

I read that serial each month and feel like shaking that little simpleton!she is just the kind of a sentimental hair-splitting little idiot that I used to be!

"No, you blithering idiot!"

I fully expected to hear one or the other of these three burst into a towering rage, and order the immediate punishment of those who had offended, whereas the men extricated themselves from the tangle of half-drunken soldiers and savages as best they could, immediately resuming the apparently confidential conversation with the idiot.

Tansy tea be durned!" Abe failed perceptibly during the summer, grew feebler as the autumn winds blew in, and by November he took to his bed and the physician of the Home, a little whiffet of a pompous idiot, was called to attend him.

And be he dead, I count you for a fool; Your wailing will not quicken him: dead or not, Ye mar a comely face with idiot tears.

He will not only be sent to prison, but the bastinado" "The bastinadolike that idiot Zizel in Si j'etais Roi?" asked the actor.

"I'm a powerful idiot, Myra.

One day something happened thatthat made me realize what an idiot I had been.

The Kearney girl was a beautiful idiot, with a lovely oval face, and limpid, rather wistful blue eyes, and fair, fine hair, and a long slim neck.

Remember the black looks insinuating you were an idiot and the growing conviction on your part that they were not far wrong?

And that is just about three times as much as anybody but a land-crazy idiot would give for it."

DOES THE BLINKIN' IDIOT SAY WHO WE'VE BEEN UP AGAINST ALL THIS TIME?

Every modern European state is more or less like a cranky, ill-built steamboat in which some idiot has mounted and loaded a monstrous gun with no apparatus to damp its recoil.

Instances of this occur in such poems as Peter Bell, the Idiot Boy, Goody Blake and Harry Gill, Simon Lee, and the Wagoner.

But it must raise our admiration, that the witty court of Charles could patiently listen to a "tale told by an idiot, full of noise and fury, signifying nothing," and give it a preference over the poetry of Dryden.

I'm an idiot!" Miss Nussey seems to have preserved her calm through all the excitement and to have never turned a hair.

* THE IDIOT LOVER.

However, notwithstanding his advantages and acquirements, he proved, when he became a lover, to be an idiot.

Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I cannot say; certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he imagined he had gained towards winning her heart.

"Uncalculating and improvident selfish idiot, not to send for one till the very last moment; you save nothing by it, and spoil your friend's dinner, in order to save yourself sixpence.

"Idiot!" said Percival.

You young idiot, don't you realize you're trying to kill yourself for life?

SEE TOMLINSON, H. M. TOMLINSON, H. M. Mars his idiot.

It was in the autumn of that year that, with Coleridge, 'Upon smooth Quantock's airy ridge they roved Unchecked, or loitered 'mid her sylvan combs;' when the latter chaunted his 'Ancient Mariner' and 'Christabel', and Wordsworth composed 'The Idiot Boy' and 'The Thorn'.