Just so it is an inequality in the two halves of the brain that makes some men idiots and others rascals.
Tell him the whole truth, and send him a ticket of admission to the Institution for Idiots and Feeble-minded Youth?
I have known several very genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary had deliquesced into some half dozen expressions.
What a city of idiots we must be not to have covered this glorious bay with gondolas and wherries, as we have just learned to cover the ice in winter with skaters!
Moreover, I have no intention of sitting on a plank in the hot sun and watching a lot of idiots run around the bases.
But let me inform you that winning an important case in the courts is decidedly different from winning a game of baseball before a lot of shouting, yelling idiots with tin horns and flags!
But let Rachel disdain him and he would go merely to show her how fine a fellow he was--what idiots men were!
But not the thought of the idiots at the top who had not enough gumption to know this must happen.
He said that the idiots imagined themselves rich, and put on so much style that it made the whole thing ridiculous.
Idiots and the hoi polloi have quite ruined the sport here.
As the imitation idiots had given out, we would try the real thing.
Most of these--even theidiots and criminals--do a little something towards progress.
For instance, it does not include the admittedidiots and lunatics, the registered paupers and parasites, the caged criminals, the six million illiterates.
I almost died when you two idiots scrambled up here.
Other voices berated them, calling them a pair of young idiots for rushing a ghost like that.
When the physical conformation of idiots is considered, the latent but obscene allusion which this speech conveys will be instantly perceived.
There cannot however be a doubt that Aaron refers to that sort of bauble or sceptre which was usually carried in the hand by natural idiots and allowed jesters, and by which, it may be supposed, they would sometimes swear.
Female idiots were retained in families for diversion as well as male, though not so commonly; and there would be as much reason to expect one of the former in the sheriffs household as in that of any other person.
Led off the scent by it, the idiots will not suspect what is the matter with the man until the vomito negro declares itself.
Those two idiots would contradict each other in their evidence.
He is one of those unhung idiots who rush in where angels fear to tread.
Economic idiots gnawed a file because the ex-house-trap maker objected to paying his taxes twice, and charging his patrons on both the amount and the cost of collection.
I am pleased to see that he does not follow those idiots of historians who try to make scandal out of my supper with Mme.
If those idiots would only fall upon the swords which were held out to them, there was no knowing what might not be accomplished.
The conceited little idiots thought every girl they saw in love with them, and that all they had to do was to sit and be adored.
We have seen idiots who could calculate and reason in a still more extraordinary manner.
How matter, by the varied shape of pores, Or idiots frames, or solemn senators.
I wish to hear on what grounds they made such idiots of themselves.
However gross a folly one utters, there are always idiots to be found who will believe it.
He announced that in wine-growing districts the number of idiots conceived at the time of the vintage and carnival is very large, while at other periods it is almost nil.
For theidiots the construction can be much the same.
Another fraternity was then picked out consisting of two men, both idiots and congenitally blind, and a woman who had married and given birth to ten normal children.
American students usually distinguish three grades of mental defect: Idiots are those who are unable to take care of themselves, even to the extent of guarding against common physical dangers or satisfying physical needs.
All we really know is the number receiving definite teaching or training, and an approximation--nothing more--to the gross number of idiots and imbeciles in the land.
For some years he taught idiots in Paris, and in 1846 published a work entitled "Traitement moral, Hygiene, et Education des Idiots.
The Highgate and Colchester Asylums for idiots were instituted--the origin, as it proved, of the great establishment at Earlswood.
Thus only about a hundred and eighty idiots and imbeciles are in training institutions in Scotland.
But I have to confess that seeing you three space-brained idiots clinging to that raft, ready to eat a raw fish--well, that was just about the happiest moment of my life.
By the rings of Saturn, I should log you three space-brained idiots for everything in the book!
Half idiots of both sexes in our workhouses look at each other, and then take their discharge after a mutual understanding.
Idiots and imbeciles have largely disappeared from country villages and small towns.
But we will if the idiots that would shut down our Pyrotechnic manufactories are not shut up.
I wonder if those idiots down below will disdain to watch our performance," asked Bombs, as he was about to begin.
It wouldn't do to leave Mr. Longfellow's hero out of a volume in which space was given to such lesser village idiots as Casabianca and the Spartan youth.
That resolution, wild and strange, Proposed a fundamental change, Which was that idiots no more Could join us as they had before!
And now the question is of more Importance than it was before: Shall vacancies among us be To idiots threw open free?
He had (like some idiots who have fallen under my own personal observation) a prodigiously retentive memory, from the impressions of which he alone was able to draw.
Many horrible goitres, however, and idiots are to be found among them.
There are no such beasts in human shape, who lay by all the use of reason, and are governed by sense alone (unless it be idiots or mad-men).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idiots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
