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Examples
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It was one hundred and fifty years old, living on borrowed time in this company of millionaire scatter-brains.
The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991
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Upon this the young scatter-brains answered rather flippantly:
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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"Odds my life! what scatter-brains women are born with!" marvelled Mr. Meredith.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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Some scatter-brains of great houses were mixed up in the affair; MM. de Richelieu, de Laval, and de Pompadour; there was secret coming and going between the castle of Sceaux and the house of the
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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Mr. Lenox smiled furtively: "It was never safe to trust such a secret to scatter-brains like yourselves.
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