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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

"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

Take up that chronicle at middle age and see its weak and driveling character.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

"There are old men who marry young wives, and who pay the penalty by becoming martyrs to paralysis, softening of the brain, and driveling idiocy."

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

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




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