brief sad ambitions, a seaside
dotage in a suntanned town where sheep
Most people, in what we would call the civilised world, have moved on and it is easy to shrug off A Dinou's comments as the same old ramblings of someone in their
dotage.
But, she allowed, jabbing fists toward the crowd, ''I feel like I'm an example now in my
dotage of the fact that you just can't put those old gals out to pasture.
That's fine by me, they're commies top to bottom, deserving of slow starvation in their
dotage, but Walker was more compassionate.
While the rest of us may only dream of replicating such a simple strategy as a means of producing a regular income in our
dotage, we may still enjoy Wisden's Almanac which this year celebrates its 150th birthday.
Old is so often considered to be feeble, past sell-by date, well on the way to
dotage, an encumbrance to one's family and a bit of a blight, and whilst copious tears are shed at the passing of an older relative, relief will soon follow the shed tears!
I WONDERED if
dotage had finally set in for me when viewing Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations last weekend.
Watching her employer, a wealthy woman in her
dotage, don an absurd polka-dot dress, Rita experiences a terrible pity, forgetting for a moment her own disappointments, her own failures and regrets.
Laugh if you will, but the idea of allowing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to spend his
dotage in exile is becoming increasingly attractive to the British government
Although fit and fine in his prime, Elvis was in poor shape in his
dotage, indicated by his lower vertebrae.
WILLIAM BANKS, Seghill, Northumberland IN YOUR
DOTAGE THEY say in your
dotage there are many things you can't do, But speaking from experience that's not entirely true.
IT'S probably me getting soft in my
dotage, but most weeknights you can catch me getting dewy-eyed over bottle-feeding badger cubs on Wildlife SOS.
SHANE Williams insists the record books are for his
dotage and so his birthday weekend was minus the present he really wanted.
Now in my
dotage, I saw a nice 12-gauge at Bass Pro, bought it and took it out to the range.
There seems to be no major study available of Gaunt [try Anthony Goodman's John of Gaunt: The Exercise of Princely Power in 14th-century Europe, published by Longman, Ed] who was de facto ruler during the
dotage of Edward III and the minority of Richard II.