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.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 2 2 At Albert, the village idiot, apparently.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 6 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.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 6 4 The idiot scampered in and out.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 7 5 Mrs. Parker was deploring to Isa in a low voice the village idiot.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 8 6 The sound of horses' hooves, energetically represented by Albert the idiot with a wooden spoon on a tray, died away.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 9 7 Here the hindquarters of the donkey, represented by Albert the idiot, became active.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 10 8 The good man contemplated the idiot benignly.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 11 9 Contemplating the idiot, Mr. Streatfield had lost the thread of his discourse.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 11 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.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV 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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10 12 Otherwise he would be lost like an idiot on a moor.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10 13 But this astute and practical man was almost an idiot when left alone to his own emotional life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10 14 Such talk was really the gabbling of an idiot.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10 15 The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 18