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"Scurvy conduct," muttered another of the committee, as he was retiring after the speaker. "Shabby, sniveling, drivelling conduct," muttered a third. "Low, mean, sneaking conduct," said a fourth. "Dirty subterfuge," exclaimed a fifth. And off the gentlemen went. But they had not yet done with me. Triterite's committee, has so disgusted me that I beg you to understand that we are friends no longer.
I do not believe in spurning the love of a blackfellow if he behaves in a manly way; but Frank Hawden was such a drivelling mawkish style of sweetheart that I had no patience with him.
Blackwood's wrote of the "calm, settled, imperturbable, drivelling idiocy of Endymion," and elsewhere of Keats' "prurient and vulgar lines, evidently meant for some young lady east of Temple Bar.... It is a better and a wiser thing," it commented, "to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop, Mr.
I remember once I went down to assist a friend of mine in an electioneering campaign in a small borough. His opponent was a most worthy and estimable squire, who resided in the neighbourhood. It was, of course, my business to prove that he was a despicable knave and a drivelling idiot. This I was engaged in doing at a public meeting in the town-hall.
He took an Austrian wife to his bed. Who knows? he may some day declare a preference for Austrian lead. But we shall have to follow him, or stay at home drivelling." Agostino raised his eyes, that were glazed with the great heat of his frame. "Oh, that, like our Dante, I had lived in the days when souls were damned! Then would I uplift another shout, believe me!
For, at the first reading of such a profuse discourse, one would think it had been broached for the introducing of a story of great importance and moment concerning the waging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricious champion, at the Englishman who had affronted him, as also at their scribbler Enguerrant, more drivelling at the mouth than a mustard pot.
He felt he saw himself a drivelling sentimentalist. But weak, and dazed, sore wounded of the archers, he turned and dropped a dime into the beggar's cup. Richling was too restless with the joy of relief to sit or stand. He trumped up an errand around the corner, and hardly got back before he contrived another.
"He is in the study with his face buried in his hands, muttering about civilization and melting pots." "Eh? Why?" "Because it has just been my painful duty to inform him that Anatole has given notice." I own that I reeled. "What?" "Given notice. As the result of that drivelling scheme of yours.
This fact transpires more than once, as will be seen anon by the extracts I shall proceed to make; if my influenza which causes me to shed involuntary tears that give me the appearance of a drivelling idiot, and which jerks me nearly out of my chair every now and then with a convulsive sneeze will permit me to do anything rational or useful.
Klem. What becomes of Mr. Klem all day, or when he goes out, or why, is a mystery I cannot penetrate; but at half-past nine he never fails to turn up on the door-step with the flat pint of beer. And the pint of beer, flat as it is, is so much more important than himself, that it always seems to my fancy as if it had found him drivelling in the street and had humanely brought him home.
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