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He makes General Joshua conquer Death by lying down and giving up the ghost, and then asks for a headstone and a foot-stone for the holy corpse. "I imagine," he says, "that for the head it shall be the sun that stood still upon Gibeon, and for the foot the moon that stood still in the valley of Ajalon." This is about the finest piece of Yankee buncombe extant.
"The people expect startling things ... and, as the winds of genius blow where they list when they refuse to blow in the direction required, divine is the art of buncombe," he jested. I suppose this applied to his musician-prodigy, a girl of eight, who worked, in the afternoons, in the bindery.
If he have any Buncombe constituency, it is that unrealized commonwealth of philosophers which Plotinus proposed to establish; and if he were to make an almanac, his directions to farmers would be something like this: "OCTOBER: Indian Summer; now is the time to get in your early Vedas." What, then, is his secret?
The evening had closed now, so Captain Buncombe told the crew to get the boat ready, and the Greek with many more fervent expressions of gratitude, was rowed ashore. The next morning we had landed and after pottering about the port proceeded up to Athens, which much disappointed all of us, especially dad and the captain.
"Shall I write an order on my bankers for the money to be sent? One hundred thousand piastres will be about five thousand pounds I don't know whether my credit will be good for that amount?" "Your credit and mine will be sufficient," Captain Buncombe said; "one can't trifle with these fellows, for the villains keep their word, I'm told."
Lady Ella insisted upon his keeping his room. It was with difficulty that he got her to admit Whippham, and Whippham was exasperatingly in order. "You need not trouble about anything now, my lord," he said. "Everything will keep until you are ready to attend to it. It's well we're through with Easter. Bishop Buncombe of Eastern Blowdesia was coming here anyhow. And there is Canon Bliss.
Tell me, McGraw don't lie to me do you feel the slightest desire to see me suffer, or is this er brotherly-love talk of yours plain buncombe?" Bob McGraw advanced toward the man he had beaten. He held out his hand. "I try to be a man" he said "to be too big to hate and put myself on a level with a brute. Won't you shake hands with me?" Carey regarded him with frank curiosity.
When he died he left a modest fortune made in spouting buncombe; and yet " The Professor held out a hand in appeal. "How many men are called great because they succeed in talking buncombe and selling rubbish!
He had made his own reflections upon the tastelessness of the rhetoric, and the obvious buncombe of the motive, and he had not taken the matter seriously. He could not doubt Lindau's sincerity, and he wondered how he came to that way of thinking.
Senate vote: 11 for, 37 against. Introduced in the House by Gallatin Roberts of Buncombe county; 39 for, 68 against. Bill for Presidential electors, county and city officers, introduced by Senator H. B. Stevens of Buncombe county; vote, 20 for, 24 against. State amendment resolution, introduced by G. Ellis Gardner of Yancey county, an anti-suffragist, was tabled, as desired.
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