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As nothing unusual could be seen, the gold-hunter retired once more, after pooh-poohing the lizard for his fears. Scarcely had he dropped off to sleep, when he was again disturbed, and, losing patience at these repeated interruptions to his slumbers, he seized the lizard and threw him lightly across the tent.
"No, sir; it is gallantry," replied Cibber, with perfect coolness. "Will you hear a little music in the garden?" said Vane to Mrs. Woffington, pooh-poohing his wife's news. "Not till I hear the end of Dame Bess." "Best, my lady." "Dame Best interests me, Mr. Vane." "Ay, and Ernest is very fond of her, too, when he is at home.
But all the pooh-poohing in the world over the best wine in the colony, was not to stop the affair which had commenced. Volunteers were drilling, men of sound heads and stout hearts were getting ready for action.
"'Spirit photography, so called, has of late been asserting its existence in such a manner and to such an extent as to warrant competent men in making an investigation, conducted under stringent test conditions, into the circumstances under which such photographs are produced, and exposing the fraud should it prove to be such, instead of pooh-poohing it as insensate because we do not understand how it can be otherwise a position that scarcely commends itself as intelligent or philosophical.
How one longs to have his full, true, and particular account of the six months he spent with George Sand in Majorca! We are to understand that it was Chopin who did the weeping, and pouting, and "scene" making while George Sand did the consoling, the pooh-poohing, and the protecting. Liszt had already given us a characteristic anecdote of this Majorca period.
He was breathing with such difficulty that I was almost tempted to give him nitroglycerin, instead of strychnine, but he said he would be all right as soon as he became accustomed to the rarefied air, quite pooh-poohing my suggestion that he take No. 2 back to Trinidad; and while I was still urging, the train started.
I know them well, excitable, turbulent in their spirits, uncontrollable, but easily handled if decently treated. They've sent their petitions again and again to Ottawa, and here are these Members of Parliament making fool speeches, and the Government pooh-poohing the whole movement, and meantime Riel orating and organizing." "Riel? Who's he?" inquired the Sergeant. "Riel? You don't know Riel?
This is, undeniably, 'a puir show for Kirkintilloch, a meagre collection of savage death-wraiths, but it may be so meagre by reason of want of research, or of lack of records, travellers usually pooh-poohing the benighted superstitions of the heathen, or fearing to seem superstitious if they chronicle instances.
I continued: "Crookes began by pooh-poohing the whole subject of spiritualism, very much as you do, Miller; but after three years of rigid investigation, he was forced to announce himself convinced of the truth of many of the so-called spirit phenomena.
It happened that he was with them one evening when the conversation turned on supernatural appearances, the possibility of which was maintained by Julian and Owen, while Lillyston in his genial way was pooh-poohing them altogether. Hazlet alone sat silent, but at last he said "I have never yet mentioned to any living soul what once happened to me, but I will do so now.
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