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"'Tis excellently well writ," said the reader, examining every letter. "Ay!" said Hans bombastically, "and small wonder: 'tis writ by a famous hand; by Margaret, sister of Jan Van Eyck. Blessed and honoured be his memory! She is an old friend of mine, is Margaret Van Eyck." Miscellaneous Hans then diverged into forty topics. Sybrandt stole out of the company, and went in search of Cornelis.
If Froude had written an elaborate History of Henry II., as he wrote a History of Henry VIII., he would have qualified himself in the manner somewhat bombastically described. But even Lord Acton, who seemed to think that he could not write about anything until he knew everything, would scarcely have prepared himself for an article in The Nineteenth Century by mastering the history of the world.
By treating a tragic subject bombastically or satirically we can turn it into an amusement for the public; they will not feel the griefs which we have been careful to harden them against by arousing in them contrary emotions. A work, nominally a work of art, may also appeal to non-aesthetic feelings by its political bias, brutality, or obscenity.
"You thought you had fooled us nicely, but I guess we have turned the tables on you." "I suspected you Rovers," said Sid Merrick. "Really!" answered Tom, sarcastically. "You acted it!" "See here, don't you get funny, young man. Please remember you are in our power." "And we'll do some shooting, if we have to," added Tad, bombastically.
Last night we attacked them in three columns, 10,000 strong, and drove them out." "Well done!" "It was splendidly done!" went on Anatole, bombastically. "Three times the enemy tried to retake their ambuscades; three times we beat them back at the point of the bayonet, so!" And the excitable Frenchman jumped from his seat and went through the pantomime of charging with the bayonet.
While he was most bombastically agreeing with the coat-man that the weather was warm, he was conscious that he was longing to run childishly with his troubles to the comfort of the fairy child. He kept Miss McGoun after he had finished dictating. He searched for a topic which would warm her office impersonality into friendliness. "Where you going on your vacation?" he purred.
Owing to his facile command of language he was peculiarly fitted to draft those proclamations, bombastically worded in the French style, issued and circulated by the Strike Committee appeals to the polyglot army to withstand the pangs of hunger, to hold out for the terms laid down, assurances that victory was at hand.
On July 19th William the War Lord bombastically telegraphed his sister, the Queen of Greece, to the effect that he had "paralyzed Russia for at least six months to come" and was on the eve of "delivering a coup on the western front that will make all Europe tremble." It would be futile to recount the details of the various German victories which followed the advance into Poland.
He was more or less disreputable, she believed, but he was none the less welcome on that account. It was just such men as he who knew how to make things a success. She relied upon the disreputable more than she would have admitted. "Egad, I'm no novice in most things!" declared the court jester, waving his wand bombastically.
"That man may consider himself born to no common destiny who has conquered the Napoleon of the West," went on the Mexican general, bombastically. "It now remains for him to be generous to the vanquished." Again Houston looked at him, a look that made Santa Anna quail. "You should have remembered that at the Alamo," said the Texan commander.
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