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Still the insinuation was so like what I felt myself that I was greatly awed and confounded. The poor fellow observed this, and tried to do away the impression by some further sage remarks of his own. "Hout, dear sir, it is balderdash, there's nae doubt o't. It is the crownhead o' absurdity to tak in the havers o' auld wives for gospel.
You have your cumbrous details, and your lawyers, and judges, and juries, and you cannot even proclaim a county in a state of siege without a bill in your blessed Parliament, and a basketful of balderdash about the liberty of the subject. Is it any wonder rebellion is a regular trade with you, and that men who don't like work, or business habits, take to it as a livelihood?
Oh, wheesht with you, Eleanor, and don't be talking such balderdash. Five years! Holy O!" "What does 'Holy O! mean?" she demanded. "I don't know. It's just a thing to say when you can't think of anything else. Five years! Five minutes is more like it!" "We're too young to be married yet, and in five years' time we'll know each other much better!" "I should think so, too," he said.
Then the average college critic of the arts, with his balderdash about inspiration and moral purpose, is greater than Georg Brandes or Saint-Beuve. Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism.
He has been told what to say yesterday, for instance, it was some lurid balderdash about a steam-roller and how the Kaiser is to be fed on dog biscuits at Saint Helena he has been "doped" by the editor, who gets the tip and out he goes! unless he take it from the owner, who is waiting for a certain emolument from this or that caucus, and trims his convictions to their taste.
Cameron the senseless declamation of an inexperienced, hot-headed young man; and putting it aside, much as a great lawyer dismisses as balderdash the florid rhetoric of some junior counsel, rhetoric in which the great lawyer had once indulged, or as a woman for whom romance is over dismisses as idle verbiage some romantic sentiment that befools her young daughter, Mrs.
They talked Socialism and revolution in the trenches to comrades who saw no use to alter the good old ways of England and "could find no manner of use" for political balderdash.
But if he came to me now, and knelt before me, imploring me to return, I would not. I would die sooner!" She was walking up and down now, gleams of passionate scorn and rage in her dark eyes. "It is all folly and balderdash, this talk of his love for me making him leave me. Don't let us have any more of it.
The bank men received the veto with equanimity. They professed to believe that the balderdash in which the message abounded would make converts for their side; they even printed thirty thousand copies of the document for circulation. Events, however, did not sustain their optimism. In the ensuing campaign the Bank became, by its own choice, the leading issue.
They drank, sang, and talked balderdash and indecencies in a way to bring a look of disgust upon the cheeks of the rough boatmen. Much less sober than when they left Tilly, the riotous party reached the capital.
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