I am ashamed to lose my patience with such a dotard. From Wordnik.com. [Spector - Criticism - Critical Contexts] Reference
A great ruler is displaced at the caprice of a dotard. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
He was merely an old dotard: empty-minded like the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
"Well, it is not a dotard, I trust; but who is the man?". From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The old dotard Francis Joseph who occupied the throne of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
That old dotard, my grandfather, had borne it before me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
“Away with this prating dotard,” said Front-de Boeuf. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Painting McSame as an confused, out-ot-touch dotard works. From Wordnik.com. [Biden Uncorks Tough Populist Hit On McCain Over "Fundamentals" Line] Reference
Valhar was growing old now but was far from in his dotard. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
Hast thou suffered the dotard to learn that Rebecca is in the. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
"I will not be if you keep maundering, dotard," Kaino retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
"I'm a dotard," Sharak said, digging a horn spoon into the stew. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
"Ah! the old dotard!" interrupted the page, laughing immoderately. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
“The dotard! what business had he to be so curious?” exclaimed Schedoni. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
"Can I be spared the humiliation of meeting that old dotard you have sent for?". From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
"So I'm to be a dotard with one foot in the grave, as well as a dastard," roared Miraz. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Caspian]
And what right has that old dotard in the black gown to be here except that he is your friend?. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Caspian]
But let not the reader suppose that he was either a superannuated coxcomb or a driveling dotard. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
"Of course it was a real ship, you old dotard!" said the skipper gruffly and looking angrily at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
The arrogant, self-centered dotard had believed that only he was powerful enough to evoke its magic. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
At last Nurredin's patience giving way, he calls his servants in to throw the old dotard out of doors. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The ultimatum to Servia was the escapade of a dotard: a worse crime than the assassination that provoked it. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Moral: The gentleman is delighted that his son is intelligent and the boy complains that his father is a dotard. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference
Our Mr. Chia She is now so stricken in years, that in all his actions he unavoidably behaves somewhat as a dotard. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Now, obviously it's time for the ageing dotard to go, along with his "securocrats" who are actually running the country. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
"Your dotard king couldn't rule without it Zaspar Makann, and Makann couldn't rule without me, and neither can you," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking]
If we were like that, I wouldn't be served upon a platter to make some drooling old dotard a tasty bride, she thought glumly. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenblood]
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
A man had a beautiful wife, who died; but the mother, a decrepit old dotard, remained a fixture in his house, because of the dowry. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Ralph Wiggum is the all encompassing but loveable dotard that he is. From Wordnik.com. [Kontraband Latest] Reference
The querulous dotard, however, who then sat in St. Peter's chair, hated. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Today, after centuries of snickering at Nostradamus's premonition, some believe the Messiah is amongst us, the dotard born. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
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