Then feeling himself growing imbecile, he forced an equally weak gravity.

The people to decide this point are those rich fathers who have rebellious, prodigal, reckless, and worthless sons, hopelessly dissipated, and rendered imbecile by self-indulgence and wasteful revels; or those people who discuss the expediency and apparent state necessity for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, when the welfare of a great kingdom was set against the ties of blood.

But still, we do not condemn imbeciles, idiots or defectives, or other substandard, subnormal creatures to the prisons.

Some say she died imbecile.

Do you want to fly in the face of Providence, you doddering old imbecile?" "No," said the Professor, accepting the doubtful appellation without a blush.

You even encouraged them to enlist in an unseemly campaign to elect that young imbecile, Kenneth Forbes, and" "Oh, Martha, Martha!

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.

The labor union has two difficulties; the first one is that it began to make a labor scale for all classes on a par, and they scale down a man that can earn five dollars a day to two and a half a day, in order to level up to him an imbecile that cannot earn fifty cents a day.

It is heredity, life itself which makes imbeciles, madmen, criminals and great men.

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.

If doctors and scientists had been no wiser than lawyers, judges, legislatures and the public, the world would still be punishing imbeciles, the insane, the inferior and the sick; and treating human ailments with incantations, witchcraft, force and magic.

Society restrains the imbecile, the dangerously insane, the victims of deadly, contagious diseases.

They attend the imbecile and thoughtless.

"I go to tell the imbecile that Your Highness will not see him," responded Glück, impassively, his hand on the knob.

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?