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In these stories, as in the author's novels, nothing seems to be contrived and everything seems worth hearing about, whether the subjects are men at war, children, or a dodderer on a park bench.

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The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire.

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Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed?

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What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter.

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Thou art a fine fellow, and I bear no ill will, but will help thee to outwit that old dodderer who tried to steal away three days before me.

From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Becke, Louis