drivellers

He's none of your drivellers, none of your ignoramuses.

Camilla 2008

I am as free as the wind at Martinmas, that pays neither land-rent nor annual; all is explained — all settled with the honest old drivellers yonder of Auld Reekie.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

I know nothing of the nature of angels because I am only a man; divines alone are acquainted with them; but, as a man, I think, from my own experience and also from that of all my brother drivellers, that people do not flock to any spectacle, of whatever kind, but from pure curiosity.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

What (mental) negroes do they not cherish? what (moral) hunchbacks do they not adore? what lepers, what idiots, what dull drivellers, what misshapen monsters (I speak figuratively) do they not fondle and cuddle?

The Virginians 2006

It unriddled the observations of drivellers and monstrous heads, — shewing a priori, it could not be otherwise, — unless ...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

It unriddled the observations of drivellers and monstrous heads, — shewing a priori, it could not be otherwise, — unless ...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

TWENTY YEARS convert infants into lovers, and fathers and mothers, render youth the operative generation, decide men's fortunes and distinctions, convert active men into crawling drivellers, and bury all the preceding generation.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

But, as the matter _now_ stands, if their dreary drivellers Cobden, Bright, Wilson, Acland, W.J. Fox, were withdrawn from the public scene in which they are so anxious to figure, and sent to enjoy the healthy exercise of the tread-mill for one single three months, would this eternal "_brutum fulmen_" about the repeal of the Corn-laws be heard of any more?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

We have seen the British nation, choosing by the accident of birth a baby for its future sovereign, and training it in a way the least possible calculated to favor relations of acquaintance and sympathy with varied wants of the many; and our first impression, I fear, has been our last: What drivellers!

The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society William Withington

It is the argument of a driveller to other drivellers, who says: “We are not able to decide upon the evil when it arises; our only safe way is to act upon the general apprehension of evil.

Fallacies of Anti-Reformers 1909