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I am curious to know whether such a French windbag is composed entirely of falsehoods. This is the decisive moment. Merry company! Merry? I'm dead. No matter, they're merry just the same. Gad! is that true? Merry company cheerful mourners permit me to interrupt your enjoyment by a few painful remarks on the qualities of the deceased. Painful remarks? That's a good beginning.
"And what should you do, puppy, if your hands were unbound?" He took his prisoner by the breast of his doublet and shook him. "Answer me! What should you do? Tchah! You empty windbag! You...." And then came a torrent of words unknown to mademoiselle, yet of whose foulness her intuitions made her conscious. With blanched cheeks she stood by the cabin table, and cried out to Levasseur to stop.
At Hayley's house a small coterie of poetasters, male and female, assembled for purposes of mutual glorification in the most windbag sort of verse, and were glad to buy portraits and sketches from the painter with such small coin as sonnets and stanzas, and poetic epistles. Romney executes a likeness of Mrs.
When the sons of heaven married the daughters of men, their offspring were giants and men of renown. Now the sons of men marry the daughters of heaven, and the offspring is Wiggle, Waggle, Windbag, and Redtape."
I was somewhat surprised by this meekness, for our Old Man is a great hand to puncture a windbag; but then, I reflected, the writing guy, being a passenger, was in the nature of a guest on board, and, according to Captain Shreve's code, a man to be humored. We lay in the Stream, with a half dozen hours to pass ere we proceeded to sea.
Hence they put them up with a light heart on the cackling of their coteries, and they and their children had to live, often enough, with some wordy windbag whose cowardice had cost the country untold loss in blood and money. At last the evil reached such a pitch that the people rose, and with indiscriminate fury destroyed good and bad alike.
It's my turn now. That French windbag who's been hanging about Berlin since yesterday Pleasing description! I'll tell him Your Majesty will not receive him. Rascal! No, Eversmann, tell him I have something very important to say to him something very confidential. Confidential? To me? Concerning an important and pressing matter. Oh, yes, I know. You know, sirrah? What do you know?
Not that windbag Sir Hudson, but thou thyself wast the Sicilian sbirro whom the allied sovereigns suborned to avenge in secret on the man of the people what the people had once done openly to one of thy sovereigns. And he was thy guest, and had seated himself at thy hearth.
And then he painted to himself a not untrue picture of the probable miseries of a man who begins life too high up on the ladder, who succeeds in mounting before he has learned how to hold on when he is aloft. For our Phineas Finn was a young man not without sense, not entirely a windbag.
Here I have arranged for a meeting at the colonel's house on Saturday to discuss this new coal development, and the syndicate's agent is coming, and yet we can't for the life of us tell whether the colonel will be on his way home in a pine box or locked up here for trying to murder that old windbag. It's horrible!
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