Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Exempel

• King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.
• "You think I'm in my second childhood, I know!" croaked the old woman.
• Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime."
• Although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in intellect, and seemed to be brought to a species of second childhood, generally simpering in their expressions, with idiotic smiles, and uttering the most absurd platitudes.
• But take care of yourself; a man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.