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It was all "guff" to the politicians, I suppose, from the day the trouble began about the Mulberry Bend, but toward the end they woke up nobly. When the park was finally dedicated to the people's use, they took charge of the celebration with immense unction, and invited themselves to sit in the high seats and glory in the achievement which they had done little but hamper and delay from the first.
'Anyways, I guess I been talking too much. You'll have to excuse me, Shorty! "And he meant it. He wasn't talking guff. Didn't seem possible anybody could shoot as fast and straight as that, but Perris was all cut up because he'd missed and he didn't do no more singing for about half an hour. And I needed that time for a lot of thinking.
At half-past twelve he called up Reuben Guff and his son and Swiftarrow, who were the most intelligent members of his party, to view a spectacle which they had never before seen.
"Shore is a bad habit of mine Allie.... Makes me think of a lot of guff jest the same as it makes me see snakes an' things.... I'll quit drinkin', Allie.... Never will touch liquor again now if you'll jest forgive." He spoke gently, huskily, with tears in his voice, and he broke off completely. "Forgive! Larry, boy, there's nothing to forgive except your not hurrying me to to him!"
"You get that, do you? Just you remember that what I say goes, an' I don't take no guff offen no man, not even one of the old man's pets an' that's my business see?" Bill smiled as the scowling man crushed the note in his hand and slammed it viciously into the wood-box. "Wants you broke in, does he? All right; I'll break you!
Slingerland showed his amazement at the pictures drawn by Neale, especially at the final one. "Wal, I reckon thet's all guff too," he said. "A lot of bad women out in these wilds ain't to be feared. Supposin' thar was a lot of them which ain't likely how'd they ever git out to the camps?" "Slingerland, the trains the trains will follow the laying of the rails!" "Oho!
Neither Mary nor I could get out two sentences before the boy would cut in with something like: "Don't tell cousin Ben about that day I recited in school; I'm tired of all that guff!" Then Mary would answer: "It isn't guff, precious. I never was prouder of you in my life."
"If the fellow who wrote this can write stuff as warm, comforting and appetizing on chocolates as he can about coldness, courage and cramps on that trip to Mountain City, he'll make a world-beater in the advertising line! He's a whirlwind no a cyclone when it comes to throwing the guff." The interview told of the great man's magnanimity and generosity.
Not a particle of sincerity or conviction. Nothing but high moral guff." "Oh, but YOU'RE sincere, Davy," said Jane with twinkling eyes. "Am I?" said Davy angrily. "I'm not so damn sure of it." Hastily, "I don't mean that. Of course, I'm sincere as sincere as a man can be and get anywhere in this world. You've got to humbug the people, because they haven't sense enough to want the truth."
Peabody was always an American, and better, he was a citizen of the world. He loved America, but when on English soil, really guest of England, he gave the Queen the place of honor. This seems to us proper and right, and at this distance we smile at the whole transaction, but we are glad that Peabody, who paid for the dinner, had his way as to the oratorical guff.
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