He still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Losing your mind or losing your faculties or losing your marbles is about age – none of which was said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?] Reference

Next in marbles were the sold colors, opaque or with a swirl through them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childhood Games: Marbles and More « Colleen Anderson] Reference

Another reason for making the marbles is for smarter consumption of sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nut marbles] Reference

A person, once normal, who loses his/her marbles, is properly called demented.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProWomanProLife » Voting begins now] Reference

What about 'losing your marbles', is that better?? uhm??? senator, hum????????? it has nothing to do with age, but reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue] Reference

With the marbles was a note scrawled in a boy's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Six Minutes] Reference

Getting past a year-older, year-wiser Bradford with all his marbles is another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports News : CBSSports.com] Reference

There was cold night air in the chapel and the marbles were the colour the sea was at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

British Museum charmed my mother, and I myself was affected beyond measure by the Elgin marbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Your two assumptions not overly burdensome and you have your marbles are the heart of the dilemma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Paging Dr. Tithonius] Reference

The rocking-horse's nose couldn't turn up, it was the purest Grecian, modelled from the Elgin marbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference

Those which are easily cut and polished are termed marbles, and are used in sculpture and in ornamental architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

Well ... it's better than "marbles" John ... face it.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue] Reference

It is something completely different to say 'losing his "marbles"'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?] Reference

Either way the "marbles" have no say in what happens to them, in your example.    From Wordnik.com.  [What if you knew that to be human was nothing more than to be a machine?] Reference

Again, assume that the receptacle is filled with small spheres, such as marbles, and that water is then poured in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910] Reference

What are the Elgin marbles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference] Reference

Cambodian children play a game of "marbles" near their slum home Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in] Reference

You could always do better if you had a few of the 'marbles' from inside spray paint cans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Simple ornaments, such as marbles and statues, were to decorate the Palace of the Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

And, finally, another ship-load of 'marbles' and sculptures has just arrived from Nineveh; and the appointment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852] Reference

Here is more of a "marbles" game, with the West after L.A. so tight and a real chance at tiebreakers settling first-round home court.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

So let's see what kind of marbles you've got in the attic, "he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

He arranges marbles on a projector tray into a circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye To The Nanny?] Reference

Freeze the marbles;   plunge them into boiling water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boiling the Dog's Head] Reference

It had five glowing marbles embedded around the object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Zero - v.1: Alysia's Saga, the Awaken] Reference

Alysia lifted Saga up and the four marbles glowed for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Zero - v.1: Alysia's Saga, the Awaken] Reference

The rain pelted on the roof like a million marbles on a wooden floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inroads] Reference

Those who agree the British Museum owns the marbles have a strong case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romancing the Stones] Reference

I thought perhaps you'd be intrigued by my lovely marbles, my collection of balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Threw These At Each Other] Reference

He saw the disbelief in Jamal's face as Yuki took out a sack filled with brown marbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.4: The Chupacabra is Out There] Reference

The pendant transformed into an ancient book with the four marbles lined up in a circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Zero - v.2: Megumi's Fable, the Advance] Reference

Jerry had it right: First get the facts, and then you can take the marbles out of your mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes' Editor Remembers Jerry Flint] Reference

His eyes, wet marbles, intent, almost burning, stayed fixed on a point to her left by the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roanne's Dream] Reference

Lord Byron slammed the marbles 'removal in his bestselling epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romancing the Stones] Reference

The history of how the marbles got to London is muddy enough to bolster both sides of the argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romancing the Stones] Reference