dodderer

• “Or perhaps I'm meant to be the 700 - 800 word producing dodderer and always will be for the rest of my life.”

  The Snows of Terror (part II)

• “There was plenty of interest about town, what with a Society murder - a young sprig of the nobility called Adair getting himself shot mysteriously in the West End - and a crisis in the government, when that dodderer Gladstone finally resigned.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “You thought the less the old dodderer knew the better, I suppose? '”

  Fictionaut: Poem About Never Growing Up

• “I told him to mind his manners and not interrupt the ancient dodderer of a priest who was gabbling the service.”

  Flashman on the March

• “But why, why had Ginny settled on this old dodderer for our ally?”

  Operation Luna

• “I am mostly healed, my lady, thanks to your sorcery, and I will not sit around the liedburg and be thought a useless old dodderer.”

  Darksong Rising

• “But then, look at the effect she was having on this poor old dodderer, who wouldn't know scholarship if it was served up on a plate with piccalilli relish.”

  Dragonfly in Amber

• “He is suddenly, dodderer and ass, taken by an ache in his skin, a simple love for them both that asks nothing but their safety, and that he'll always manage to describe as something else - "concern," you know, "fondness ....”

  Gravity's Rainbow

• “If I lose you now, your father will dismiss me from his service, and where then shall a poor lorn dodderer go?”

  A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

• “For the first minute it made me feel like an old man, a real dodderer, but by now the attraction this girl had for me was getting irrational.”

  The Night of the Long Knives

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