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Erskine's next drama may be about liberty, but its Patriot Martyrs will have something better to do than spout balderdash against figure-head kings who in all their lives never secretly plotted as much dastardly meanness, greed, cruelty, and tyranny as is openly voted for in London by every half-yearly meeting of dividend-consuming vermin whose miserable wage-slaves drudge sixteen hours out of the twenty-four."
Ages ago men decided to think so for reasons that have nothing to do with esthetics; they passed the hoax on, and in time these physical features got themselves surrounded with a perfect fog of sentimental and romantic balderdash. Take your face. Your nose is bridged in that so-called ravishing way in order to let a stream of air into your lungs.
O'Laugher, who, as the phrase goes, is with Mr. O'Malley, begins by declaring that the list from which the names are read is an illegal list a foolish, useless, unauthoritative list nothing but balderdash, moonshine, and waste paper all empty sounds, and consisting of a string of names as little to the purpose in the present case as a regimental roll-call.
He ended up with a descriptive sweep of his arm, and gazed triumphantly at his enemy. "Did ye ever hear the likes o' such balderdash?" sneered Spectacle John, appealing to Jake Sawyer. Jake passed his hands, in some perplexity, over the youngest orphan's curls. "Most folks'll tell ye the same, John," he said, regarding his partner doubtfully.
"You will now hear what we call in the profession 'balderdash." "Notaries are therefore compelled to follow the course of political events, which are now intimately connected with private interests. "Monsieur le comte by his name, his talents, and his fortune is called upon to sit some day in the elective Chamber.
To expect a student to get up and participate in this verbal foolishness and ineptitude, by endeavouring to express as genuine the balderdash that poses as sentiment and sense, is an insult to his or her intelligence. Finally there remains the "graveyard" school of composition.
Heaven knows that injured individual has sins enough of his own to answer for, without fathering a whole foundling hospital of American balderdash; but this kidnapping spirit of brother Jonathan would seem to be the fashion of the day! Not content with capturing Macleod, who unhappily ventured within his frontier, he must come over to Ireland and lay hands on Harry Lorrequer.
Christianity and Humanity have long wished for divorce. Now this is an accomplished fact. And the priests are honoured. They plume themselves on not having certain vices, for which they are too weak. I know that I shall be stoned, that every boy has his balderdash ready against that to which the reflection of years and sleepless nights has given birth. But do you think I am afraid of anyone?
We lay down John Bright's Reform Speeches, and take up Carlyle and light upon a passage like this: 'Inexpressibly delirious seems to me the puddle of Parliament and public upon what it calls the Reform Measure, that is to say, the calling in of new supplies of blockheadism, gullibility, bribability, amenability to beer and balderdash, by way of amending the woes we have had from previous supplies of that bad article. This view must be accounted for as well as Mr.
Am I to tell you what happened?" "Not a great deal, I imagine," he said, with a puzzling laugh. "No, but I annoyed him, as Mr. "No names!" broke in the detective hastily. "Names, especially modern ones, destroy romance. Even the Georgian method of using initials, or leaving out vowels, lend an air of intrigue to the veriest balderdash."
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