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Updated: June 16, 2025
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.
He seemed to himself to be on the driveling verge of idiocy before the pronunciation of that absurdly inane name. Content's responding voice came from the pink-and-white nest in which she was snuggled, like the fluting pipe of a canary. "Yes, sir," said she. "My dear child," said the rector, "you know perfectly well that you have no big sister Solly."
There are cases in our community of youths who are idiotic from birth, but who, under proper care and training, have become cleanly in person, quiet in deportment, industrious in habits, and who would almost pass in society for persons of common intelligence; and yet their natural capacity was no greater than that of others, who, from ignorance or neglect of their parents, have become filthy, gluttonous, lazy, vicious, depraved, and are rapidly sinking into driveling idiocy.
I'm just driveling simply driveling with joy. We fixed it all up fifteen minutes after we got together. You might congratulate me, Mr. Bingle." "God bless my soul! Congratulate you on what?" "I'm going to marry your governess." Bright and early on Christmas morning, Mr. Sydney Force walked slowly, even irresolutely up the broad avenue leading to Mr. Bingle's stupendous door-step.
Basilio had planned gradually to reduce the amount of the dose, or at least not to let him injure himself by increasing it, but on returning from the hospital or some visit he would find his patient in the heavy slumber produced by the opium, driveling, pale as a corpse.
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?
Then he fancied he saw the shadow of his arms approach him fancied that he felt these shadowy arms inclose, embrace him and that he was pressed tenderly to some one's breast. A tall figure actually did stand directly before him. He lowered his eyes and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly driveling with terror. Horror!
At the age of thirty-seven, this Scotchman succeeded to the throne of England as James I. "He was indeed," says Macaulay, "made up of two men a witty, well-read scholar who wrote, disputed, and harangued, and a nervous, driveling idiot who acted."
Men in his discontented state were only too apt to build up a dream-woman, compounded of their own starved fancy, and translate her into terms of the first attractive woman who happened to cross the path. He was not going to be a driveling idiot, like Chris and some of the other men he knew. Things were bad, but they could be much worse.
On riding within the corral, the dread of the excited cows proved to be a monster wolf, crouching on a shelf of snow. He arose on his haunches and faced the horsemen, revealing his fangs, while his breast was covered with tiny icicles, caused by the driveling slaver during the night's run.
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