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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

All of which Julius Caesar,—being a real man, mind you,—holds in profoundest contempt for driveling unreality; which it certainly is.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

One would not call it impudent, because it is so silly—it is the driveling of a fool.

From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair

"Well, give me the note; why stand there like a driveling fool," for the fellow's hesitant manner angered and frightened me.

From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea




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