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Apart from that, no blatherskite can endure it; no vain boaster, no aggressive bully, no slacker, and no humbug of any kind can possibly keep his end up in the force." So wrote a widely experienced and keen-witted "old-timer," in 1908, and he was perfectly right.
Here have I been at the point of making love to her myself, and only her tears and that big boy of hers have kept me from it. And all the time I thought she was wastin' water on that blatherskite of a Cowels, but I think better of her now." "And why should she weep for any one else?" asked the old engineer.
"There's men out there I thought I could reckon on like I'd tie to my own grandson, and they're standing with their mouths open, whooping on that old blatherskite." Chairman Presson went and stood with him at the window, hands in trousers pockets, chinking loose silver and staring gloomily through the dusty panes. "It's hell to pave this State, and no hot pitch ready," he observed.
It is seldom indeed that the Mother-Church permits a small-bore bigot or brainless blatherskite to rise to the dignity of an archbishop, but one such has evidently escaped her watchful eye.
That is typical of the English people as a race; they are so intolerant and so d conservative that even in questions of life and death they won't learn. The aeroplane is a new brand of the service and therefore they won't take it seriously and they say Billings is just a blatherskite.
Again the parrot-like reminder caused him to wince, and this time he recognized the application. "Oh!" he exclaimed, with sorry yet protesting confusion. "It's the inconsistency," she answered without flinching, perceiving that he understood. George flushed to the roots of his hair. "You compare me with that er blatherskite?" he asked, conscious as he spoke that her logic was irrefutable.
"Not so much gentlemening, if YOU please!" said a sinister-looking man, who might have been a Vandemonian in his day. "MEN'S what we are that's good enough for us." Mahony was nettled. The foreigners, too, were pressing him. "Am I then to believe, sir, what I frequently hear asserted, that there are no gentlemen left on the diggings?" "Oh, stow yer blatherskite!"
She was a perfect blatherskite; I mean for jaw, jaw, jaw, talk, talk, talk, jabber, jabber, jabber; but just as good as she could be.
He was correct. The Colonel appeared in the door a moment afterward with a dragoon revolver in his hand. He said, "Sir, have I the honor of addressing the poltroon who edits this mangy sheet?" "You have. Be seated, sir. Be careful of the chair, one of its legs is gone. I believe I have the honor of addressing the putrid liar, Colonel Blatherskite Tecumseh?" "Right, Sir.
And the first person he saw after he passed into the long coffee-room was Octavius Quirk, who was seated all by himself devouring a Gargantuan supper. "This is luck," Lionel said to himself. "Maurice's Jabberwock will begin with his blatherskite nonsense it will be something to pass the time."
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