The trembling, senile tones wakened Basil as if from a trance.
Rome found herself tottering with senile steps in the same path when the Empire and the ancient world lay in ruins about her.
As to the son's motive in permitting it, any bird of the world would tell you that, if you possess a senile parent who is bound to be rooked by somebody, it had better be by a person with whom you can come to a previous arrangement.
But in the case of Kissing Time, after a rather dull First Act, during which I kept telling myself that I was not suffering from senile decay, I had to admit that the gods were in a great measure justified of their elect.
All worldly men are as little fishes (shrimps), swimming on the surface of this pool of the earth; while the sly and seniledeath pounces upon them as a kite, and bears them away as his prey without any respite or remorse.
Say, O senile sire, how you remained unfrozen under the cold moon beams, that froze the limpid waters to hard stone; and how you fled unhurt from the showers of hail, which were poured in profusion by the deluvian clouds.
One ovary may become senile in old females before its partner does; this may explain the occasional absence or atrophy of one ovary in large females that I have examined.
Alternating activity of ovaries accounts in part for the reduced number of eggs in young females, breeding for the first time, and in older, nearly senile females.
Senile or young females might, however, be expected to skip a laying season if only one ovary was functioning.
Senile Debility When we study old age in man and the lower animals, we observe certain features common to both.
Sour milk as an article of diet appears to have a peculiar value in arresting the supposed senile changes which are largely due to auto-intoxication or self-poisoning.
Moreover, deaths of people at that age are rarely due to senile debility.
What handling, missing not a wrinkle, a fold of the aged skin, the veins in the senile temples, or the thin soft hair above the ears!
The bitterness of Baudelaire's flowers of evil he escaped until he was in senile decadence.
Or is it only a senile delusion, that some of our vanities are cured with our growing years, and that we become more just in our perceptions of our own and our neighbour's shortcomings?
At this point, however, his classification becomes confused; for he shows how senile tendencies to sodomitic passion are frequently the symptom of approaching brain disease, to which the reason and the constitution of the patient will succumb.
All species of anomalous sexual appetite, with the exception of those dependent upon senile decadence, make their appearance in childhood, together with the other criminal tendencies" (p.
Physostigma: in the paralysis produced by diphtheria, and in senile asthenopia.
The Vicomte, struggling with senile rage, stared about him.
For the Vicomte, fits of senile rage shook him two or three times a day.
Their main object in life seems to be to help me on with my overcoat, and to guide my senile steps over street-crossings, though Dr.
Was that an old man's senile superstition, too, or had it any truth in it?
The senilevoice sank to a confidential whisper, the dim, pale face came close.
You were quite aware of the extent of Benstein's senile devotion to his wife.
He had the most profound, almost senile confidence in his wife and her intelligence, and she did exactly as she liked, and her obedient husband asked no questions.
The mind could not grasp you in that senile capacity," Frobisher murmured.
The change was due, not to senile impotence alone, but also to an acquired sense of something better and truer.
She just gazed, gazed till senile slumber again hummed dully in her ears, and the fields, the churches, the hamlets and the peasant in the distance became wrapped in mist.
She would knit for a few moments, then her hands would drop of themselves, her head would fall on the back of her chair, and she would begin to go over bygones in her mind, until she got drowsy and dropped off into a senile slumber.
Her age, her senile ailments, and the hopelessness of the situation, all seemed to point to death as the only way out.
The greater part of the night passed in that half-awake senile slumber.
The findings in the visceral organs are likewise compatible with the diagnosis of senile degeneration.
There was incontinence of urine and feces, of the type associated with senile dementia.
We unanimously agree that the patient was suffering from: Senile softening of the brain, selectively affecting the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex and the corpus striatum, due to vascular degeneration.
Then he laid his head upon the table and burst into a flood ofsenile tears.
There was something sinister in this senile mirth, something that caused Wilfrid to turn away in disgust.
The more accurate historians of our time correct the old legend of death from senile decay or from the effect of dissipation.
The Trilobites are quoted as another instance; and some ingenious writers add the supposed eccentricities of the Roman Empire in its senile decay and a number of other equally unsubstantial illustrations.
The look which he shifted from me to Susannah and back was eloquent of senile indecision.
Still, it was not till the end of the sixteenth century that a watchful eye could detect the symptoms of senile decay.
Such men are the makers of nations, and not only of their own fortunes; they become rarer in the days of frothy stump oratory and hysteric sentiment, when a people babbles as it sinks into senile decrepitude.
On his colourless, wasted face a senile smile flickered; he laid his withered hand on his breast and bowed to us, advancing to the threshold.
While not thus engaged, he would gravitate almost to the extreme of servility in his efforts to exact additional largess from the powers in control, to expend upon this senile attempt to augment the consideration of his pageant throne.
White hair, beard, bearing, wrinkles, a hundred such symptoms ofsenile decay are there.
He is not like one of those senile uncles who dream of glory in the nursery, who love to hear it said, "The children adore him.
The danger to European culture lies, he says, in that "our Hellenistic political philosophy exhibits all the marks of senile dementia and progressive paranoia.
They carried out the commands of their celebrated and senile authorities, carried them out with a blind courage--in this day of mortars, telephones and machine-guns.
It was the plan of a veritable pitched battle from a forgotten age, the masterly idea of a senile brain, which had come limping along fifty years behind the times!
The steward saw that the grand folly of a senile statesman was threatening his own future prospects.
Of course it was a pity that Mr Shushions should be in the workhouse; but after all, from what Edwin remembered and could surmise, the workhouse would be very much the same as any other house to that senile mentality.
He made a senile plunge against the body of the policeman, as against a moveless barricade, and then his hat was awry and it fell off, and somebody lifted it into the air with a neat kick so that it dropped on the barrow.
This idiopathic cataract mostly occurs in old people; hence the term senile cataract.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
