Which preposition to use with imbecile
The Constitution of the United States, both in theory and practice, is so utterly broken down by the influence and effects of slavery, so imbecile for the highest good of the nation, and so powerful for evil, that I can give no voluntary assistance in holding it up any longer.
"The word conceit," she thought, "is imbecile in this case.
'My little Riou,' I said, 'do you know that you are a little imbecile with your piety?
He is only imbecile from extreme old age; the body has outlived the mind, that is all.
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.
Three of his sons have died drunkards, and the fourth is imbecile through intemperate habits.
Here he remained, the slave of fear, the conscience-stricken, diseased in bodyalmost spent; and here he would have died, had not Providence directed the impotent mind of the imbecile to the spot, and willed it otherwise.
The convert (who elsewhere was a profane expressman, and had become quite imbecile under Mr. Wynn's active heartiness and brotherly horse-play before spectators) managed, however, to feebly stammer with a blush something about "Miss Nellie.
The Empress Elizabeth, as was inevitable, at last drank herself to death, and her nephew Peter, now a besotted imbecile of thirty-four, put on the Imperial robes, and was free to indulge his madness without restraint.
He had those poor imbeciles at his mercyand he gave his whole case away by quoting irrelevant remarks from ancient Hebrew writers.
The feeling with which every Texan and Arkansas bully and assassin regarded a Northern mechanica feeling akin to that with which the old Norman robber looked on the sturdy Saxon laborermust be changed, by showing the bully that his bowie-knife is dangerous only to peaceful, and is imbecile before armed citizens.
It is not estimated that there are any more idiots or imbeciles among women than there are among men.