"Doddering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and slew the Spanish champion, big Marten Ferrara, upon the morning of Navaretta. Youth and strength were very useful, no doubt, especially where heavy armour had to be carried, but once on the horse's back the gallant steed supplied the muscles. In an English hunting-field many a doddering old man, when he is once firmly seated in his familiar saddle, can give points to the youngsters at the game. So it was among the knights, and those who had outlived all else could still carry to the wars their wiliness, their experience with arms, ...
— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle
... since I arrived on Acquatainia? Leoh demanded of himself. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have sat back like a doddering old professor and played academic games with the machine, while younger, more vigorous men have USED the machine to suit ...
— The Dueling Machine • Benjamin William Bova
... wondered whether she liked or disliked Lord Monckton. The fact that he was the man who had bumped into Thomas that night at the theater may have had something to do with her doddering. He might at least have helped Thomas in recovering his hat. Dark, full-bearded, slender, with hands like a woman's, quiet of manner yet affable, he was the most picturesque person at the cottage. But there was always something smoldering in those ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath
... said I wanted something to drink!" he thundered, "but don't stand there all night doddering. I've ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... to see what was the matter. I hear from the Brigade that some doddering idiot has cut our wire. Who in the hell ...
— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett
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