Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
'Well I'm a creationist and I hope you fail,' he said with some vehemence and doddered off without a word of thanks. ❋ Unknown (2008)
An elderly woman doddered out of a back room with a walker. ❋ N A (2008)
But the sight is no ways strange, young man; when the summer fades into autumn, and moonlight nights are long, and roads become unsafe, you will see a cluster of ten, ay of twenty such acorns, hanging on that old doddered oak. — ❋ Unknown (2008)
The head librarian, who could have posed for Norman Rockwell, doddered about the place fluffing up the books and tidying the shelves. ❋ Miss Snark (2005)
Yet Martin approved the shadow on his path: he found a charm in the spectral aspect of the doddered oak. ❋ Unknown (2004)
With a faint deprecatory chuckle, as if to say that he would have enjoyed this had life put him in the habit of enjoying anything, Merlin doddered away to the back of his shop where his treasures were kept, to get this latest investment which he had picked up rather cheaply at the sale of a big collection. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I shut the garret-door; I placed my light on a doddered and mouldy chest of drawers; I put on a shawl, for the air was ice-cold; I took my letter; trembling with sweet impatience, I broke its seal. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He no doubt regarded him as some old hack who had doddered his life away up-country, and could now not treat even a case of dysentery without the aid of a younger man. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An old man who sat at the front counter and took calls on the public line and gave general directions jumped up and doddered into the glass office. ❋ Connelly, Michael, 1956- (1995)
" Possessing no more of a sense of humor than the ants, the brick looked blank, and Can o" Beans doddered off a yard to the left. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1990)
The little old lady doddered around the front of the store, casting furtive glances toward the table where Velour and his oversupply of novels were stashed. ❋ Bova, Ben, 1932- (1989)
This was nearly too much for the skinny ancient, for he doddered back with a look of fear on his face, and his fingers fumbled to unclasp the apparently enchanted brooch. ❋ Gygax, Gary (1987)
Old Cooper tut-tutted and doddered away along the passage, and Christopher began sorting his varnished letters. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1966)
He doddered on, passing over "Harry" opposite without: a tremor, dithered for a while round 105 (where there was nothing) and continued on to the end of the compound, followed behind him by the Germans and along the warning wire by a hundred derisive prisoners. ❋ BRICKHILL, PAUL (1951)
Finally, he waded out, and stood, like a drowned rat, on the bank, pack and all streaming; then he collected himself after a pause, and doddered off towards the sok. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
Liz Bruenig: my baby has [doubled] her [birth weight] in just two months, exclusively breastfeeding. proud of my two large [dodders] ❋ Loyal Reader (2019)
This paper is due in twenty minutes and this [dodder] is really [pissing me off].
my brother is a mechanic but he can be such a dodder sometimes. last week my car [broke down] and he refused to help me fix it. ❋ Saycock (2007)
[did you] see that [fucking] dodder [over there]? ❋ Kingkoopa (2013)
[yass] [dodders], slayyyyyyyy ❋ Skullcrusher69 (2022)
