Do you want to fly in the face of Providence, you doddering old imbecile?

The old imbecile put his damp finger upon this, and asked me what I thought of it.

The poor old imbecile!

Thus adjured, the old imbecile huddles on his dressing gown and slippers, and finds himself, sure enough, close on a lee shore.

Irgens noticed the direction of his glance, but this told him nothing; the old imbecile was evidently lost in some crazy meditation or other.

I won't tell you I have been to consult those old women who advertise in the newspapers; you 'll call me an old imbecile.

Do you think this old imbecile, this man condemned to follow his mouse-killing son, can protect you from the meanest Nubian in the army?

"It must be that old imbecile, the Duc de Sairmeuse, who has manoeuvred so skilfully, and with so much address," he said.