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There can be no doubt about it: this eternal, driveling, old woman is no longer admired by true artists, and the moment has come to replace her by artifice. Closely observe that work of hers which is considered the most exquisite, that creation of hers whose beauty is everywhere conceded the most perfect and original woman.
Next she dealt with Sancho, whom Pascherette had lured back to the woman's mercy; and Sancho emerged from Dolores's presence a driveling imbecile. When Milo beheld at this moment the fleeing form of Yellow Rufe, made distinguishable by vivid lightning, Dolores determined to complete her punishments. The Spaniard was making good his escape when Milo took up the pursuit in the little sailboat.
Denton himself, who has wrought all these changes, is being looked upon by wise men as a driveling idiot, or, what is about as bad, a religious fanatic, whose sudden determination to be good has sealed the doom of his fortune." As Miss Dean was speaking she looked steadily at Faith.
What did that driveling ass of a Schuyler stand in the wake of a runaway horse for, with his shouting and gesticulating, if he wanted to stop him? And how the mischief could he get run over by a horse that had already passed beyond him? And what are we to take "warning" by? And how is this extraordinary chapter of incomprehensibilities going to be a "lesson" to us?
Humanity begets weaklings, cowards, driveling idiots whose highest evolution is that shapeless thing called Hope, whose greatest virtue is submission to the anomalies of civilization. Even you, who could be the peer of any wolf that ever ran untrammeled " He stopped abruptly, ashamed of his vehemence, and somewhat abashed by the indulgent if slightly satirical smile of his amused listener.
Quinlan's got that parsimony peculiar to all landladies and I trod on its tail, and it was all up!" "Morrow, are you a driveling idiot, or an operative? Are you reporting, or exploding? If you called me up to tell me that you trod on the tail of your landlady's parsimony, you don't need a job in a detective bureau; you need a lunacy commission!"
Who has more at stake than I? And as for capturing the rock, I'll dynamite it myself, and bring home as large a specimen of it as the yacht will carry, and set it up on Bedloe's Island beside the Goddess and say, 'There's your statue of Liberty, and there's your statue of Tyranny!" "Katherine," chided her father, "I never before believed that a child of mine could talk such driveling nonsense."
There is, indeed, fair ground for arguing that, if men of that kidney were genuinely intelligent, they would never succeed at their gross an driveling concerns that their very capacity to master and retain such balderdash as constitutes their stock in trade is proof of their inferior mentality.
After my experience of women, to be in love again in love with a girl who is young enough to be my daughter what a fool, what a driveling, degraded fool I must be!" Hot tears rose in his eyes. He dashed them away savagely, and went on again faster than ever resolved to pack up at once at his lodgings in the village, and to take his departure by the next train.
But a plague of odes, and ballads, and driveling meditations, and novels with wide margins, pervades the sofas and the atmosphere." "I don't dislike them," said de Marsay, "so long as they corrupt girls' minds, and don't spoil women." "Gentlemen," smiled Blondet, "you are encroaching on my field of literature." "You need not talk.
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