1 The first had been blown down, or the village idiot, who always tore down what had been nailed up, had done it, and was chuckling over the placard under the shade of some hedge.
2 At Albert, the village idiot, apparently.
3 "The village idiot," whispered a stout black lady--Mrs. Elmhurst--who came from a village ten miles distant where they, too, had an idiot.
4 The idiot scampered in and out.
5 Mrs. Parker was deploring to Isa in a low voice the village idiot.
6 The sound of horses' hooves, energetically represented by Albert the idiot with a wooden spoon on a tray, died away.
7 Here the hindquarters of the donkey, represented by Albert the idiot, became active.
8 The good man contemplated the idiot benignly.
9 Contemplating the idiot, Mr. Streatfield had lost the thread of his discourse.
10 By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
11 The curious pulpy part of him, the emotional and humanly-individual part, depended on her with terror, like a child, almost like an idiot.
12 Otherwise he would be lost like an idiot on a moor.
13 But this astute and practical man was almost an idiot when left alone to his own emotional life.
14 Such talk was really the gabbling of an idiot.
15 The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.