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Imperia was the most precious, the most fantastic girl in the world, although she passed for the most dazzling and the beautiful, and the one who best understood the art of bamboozling cardinals and softening the hardiest soldiers and oppressors of the people. She had brave captains, archers, and nobles, ready to serve her at every turn.
"Remember, Master Desmond, if you begin by bamboozling, you may end by practising more serious deceptions on your fellows; so let me advise you in future to restrain your propensity in that direction," he wound up by saying, with as grave a countenance as he could command. He then informed the youngsters that the line was only imaginary, to denote the sun's course round the globe.
If we could only rig up something to look like that yellow hound, and have Jerry galloping around that tree in front of him, it would be simply immense." "Talk to me about a faker will you why, if Will keeps on he'll be bamboozling the public worse than any showman ever did. Thanks, but I guess you'll have to excuse me from that galloping act, Will. Once bit, twice shy, you know.
The gipsy cant is the remnant of a pure and ancient language; we all occasionally use terms taken from this remarkable tongue, and, when we speak of a "cad," or "making a mull," or "bosh," or "shindy," or "cadger" or "bamboozling," or "mug," or "duffer," or "tool," or "queer," or "maunder," or "loafer," or "bung," we are using pure gipsy.
And I began to recount to them how Daniel O'Rourke one night, returning from waking Widow Casey at Ballybotherem, and having taken a drop more than usual of the `crayther, saw the fairies come dancing round him; and I went on to describe what Daniel said, and what the fairies did. `And now, says I, `just sit quiet where you are till I come back and finish me story. And on this, giving another whoop, and a hop, skip, and a jump, I was making me way back to the river, when up sprang the Ridskins and came bounding afther me. `Sure, thin, says I, stopping short, and beginning to scrape away as before on me fiddle, `you don't understand me. And, by me faith, indade they did not; for without more ado they got round me, and suspecting that I had been bamboozling them, began to prick me with their spears behind, as a gentle hint that I was to march forward.
During one of these bumps in the uneven street the door flew open, and the camera fell out on the cobble stones with a thud and a sound of splintering glass. "And I thought that man a Juggins," said Haigh, "and imagined I was blarneying and greening him ad libitum, whilst all the time he was bamboozling me me me, gentlemen. But, Señor Taltavull, are you perfectly certain the fellow is blind?
I don't know what is. But it's a deal honester than defending thieves and bamboozling juries. How is your wife?" "She's pretty well, thank you." Stanbury knew at once from the tone of his friend's voice that there was something wrong. "And Louis the less?" he said, asking after Trevelyan's child. "He's all right." "And Miss Rowley?
"Where do you come from then?" repeated the savage. "I tell you I'm an Englishman," cried Knowles, getting angry. "I tell you I'm an Englishman!" exclaimed the Patagonian in the same indignant tones. "That's more than I'll believe; and, to speak my mind plainly, I believe that you are an arrant, bamboozling hum-bug!" cried Tom. "No offence, though. You understand me?"
The Chief Abd-El-Geleel figures in the Slave-Trade Reports of Tripoli, 1843, as an abolitionist. But, according to M. Subtil, he was only bamboozling Col. Warrington . This Subtil also pretends the chieftain was more inclined to French than English interests.
Spank my skin! ef thet ere wan't a cute dodge it's throwd the Indyens off o' the scent for certain; or we'd a heerd some'ut o' them verming afore this." "Faith, I think we've sucksaided in bamboozling thim, shure enough." The meat by this time showed sufficiently done; and the two men applied themselves to eating, with an earnestness that allowed no time for talking.
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