1 He was silent, in the silence of imbecile obstinacy.
2 He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 3 However innocent he might be, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the circumstances were very black against him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 4 By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 5 Oh, you know, deuce take it,' said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile, 'we can't forego Blood, you know.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 6 That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 7 A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
8 And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and I could see nothing more for smoke.
9 The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious fellow.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT 10 Bonacieux, when her husband had shut the street door and she found herself alone; "that imbecile lacked but one thing: to become a cardinalist."
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 11 There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 12 Pierre continued, in French, to persuade the officer not to hold that drunken imbecile to account.
13 Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
14 In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
15 Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing.