Graybeard

Usage examples of dotard.

And I shall shortly be very pleased to accept the hospitality of the old dotard and his wife.

There is nothing in my house except fools and a dotard and two children.

At the last hamlet he made the mistake of speaking to an old man only to find the dotard was deaf as granite.

I will do, Narbonne--I tell you how I will vent my spite on this old fool of a Pope, and the dotards who may succeed him said Napoleon one day at the Tuileries.

Nothing will cure him, not even the useless prayers of the dotard, drooling priests of Mitra as they croon foolishly to their weak, indifferent deity.

But folk of wives make none assay, Till they be wedded, -- olde dotard shrew!

Duc de Marny, a feeble old man now, almost a dotard whose hitherto spotless blason, the young Vicomte, his son, was doing his best to besmirch.

The Marches sat and mused, or quarrelled fitfully about where they should spend the summer, like sparrows, he once said, till the electric lights began to show distinctly among the leaves, and they looked round and found the infants and dotards gone and the benches filled with lovers.

Whom when Pyrrochles saw, inflam'd with rage,That sire he foule bespake, Thou dotard vile,That with thy brutenesse shendst thy comely age,Abandone soone, I read, the caitiue spoileOf that same outcast carkasse, that erewhileMade it selfe famous through false trechery,And crownd his coward crest with knightly stile.

Even the workers currently re-building the city consist mainly of women, children, the dolts and dotards who were unfit to fight in the siege, brute peasants conscripted from the outlying lands.

But Your Majesty will have noticed that, though he professes to be now a Christian, the old dotard maundered much about his dead mate's still wandering the world—and why?