"Doddering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the chair, looked despairingly around him, passed his hand sadly across his forehead, and said: "It's come! I knew it would. It's the warning! It's suthing betwixt jim-jams and doddering idjiocy. Here I'd hev been willin' to swear that Mrs. Baxter here told me she had sold this yer ranch nearly two years ago to Don Jose, and ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... Captain Katskill! Ask him to come in! (Exit TILLY, L. U. E.) How my heart beats! (Re-enter TILLY with BLITHERS.) It's not Corney! (BLITHERS is a doddering old gentleman of bland manners, reddish sandy hair, very short and standing up all over his head; also big whiskers; in his hand he carries a fashionable hat, evidently not his own. He speaks throughout in the blandest tones; he wears ...
— Three Hats - A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts • Alfred Debrun
... growled the latter one day. "She's had four different talks with the President! How on earth do you suppose she does it? And how did she get Mall and Logue to take her to dinner and to the theater again and again? And what did she do to induce that doddering old blunderbuss, Gossitch, to tell her what Ames was up to? I'll bet he made love to her! How do you suppose she found out that Ames was hand in glove with the medical profession, and working tooth and nail to help them secure a National Bureau ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking |
