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driveling







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"I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear."

From Time Magazine Archive

Half of Shakespeare's characters are less creations than caricatures: a fatuous Ajax, a vicious Achilles, a sniveling Thersites, a driveling Nestor.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was considerable of it, and Miss Miranda remarked, among other things, that so absent-minded a child was sure to grow up into a driveling idiot.

From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

His pages now, stuff’d with false maudlin sentiment, Scarce please our whimpering-girls and driveling ensigns: P. But laughing Colman9 lives, a son of humour.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)




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