That monk, and his associate, who have enthralled your grandfather, and estranged the dotard from the child who should have been the solace of his age, they look no doubt upon you as a dangerous rival.
The old dotard will not quit his maundering about the Black Vaut of Dunure to every one that comes near.
Why, he was a dotard in our time; they couldn't hang a dog on his evidence!
Here they met an elderly man in a tremendous hurry--an unstable dotard who instantly abandoned whatever purpose he had formed, and came to anchor in front of them with rheumy eyes and twitching wrinkles.
How comes it your dull eyes and ears were fixed so fast upon yon dotard miscreant whose days are numbered?
If Al-Kyris falls, as yon dotard pronounceth, her ruins shall bury but few heroes!
Bewildered by various emotions, yet still managing to play her part, she returned an answer, which he construed into an affirmative; and now quite beside himself with delight, the amorous old dotard left her.
I am not all of the tame breed of you Iceland folk--other and quicker blood runs in my veins; nor will I be sold in marriage to a dotard as a mare is sold at a market.
Nay, foster-father, this white-bearded dotard is no mate for me.
It means," whispers Aaron, with Machiavellian slyness, "that I want to get rid of the old dotard here.
There is an Uncle Thaddeus--a dotard ass far gone in years!
And all whereat the generous soul revolts,[df] Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage, Have passed to darkness with the vanished age.
And all whereat the wandering soul revolts Which that stern dotard dreamed he could encage.
That is the old dotard who is always croaking about Maxfield in the days before the Flood?
European states, with England join'd To keep unmixt the royal race, And let the famed Napoleon find A dotard might supply his place.
Thus you see how by the Cunning Contrivance of an Old Bawd, a young Lady was made a Whore, and an old Dotard a young Cuckold.
You formerly Adored the Muses' darling: dotard now, Why, he may starve!
The dotardstirred and muttered, and she whispered to him and soothed him as though he were a child.
The dotard leaped forward, stooped down, and picked up the heavy roulette-wheel.
The dotard looked at me with an expression of imbecile terror.
The old dotard had already forgotten me, and was playing with his right hand against his left again.
Then let the dotard fondly spring, Each rising day, to snatch the prize; 'Twill add new vigour to his wing, And speed his journey through the skies.
Now, shall this dotard from our hero hold 300 His lands and lordships?
Dauphin, that Marie Antoinette would have been very harshly dealt with,--even the more so from the partiality of the dotard who believed himself to be reigning.
A dotard young, a blind man that can see, A witty fool, a bondman that is free.
Then God forbid that I should take exceptions To be call'd dotard of one that hath cause.
How does the lovesick old dotard bear this second loss?
I didn't want to see you the wife of an old dotard you didn't care a fillip for.
The old dotard was unable to withstand the well-feigned remorse of his mistress, and has risen thus early to console her.
