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And after that shall Rome make Senators of her women and thou shalt be Brutus, for, by the gods, thou makest a ripe speech. Here's to thee, Claudia, my love. A Roman thou art though much taken with the twaddle of a Jew. And here is to the Jew.
"Waterford, very red in the face, snatched up the paper and glanced at it. "`Do you think they're so bad? said he. "`Frightful twaddle, said I; `fancy any one saying " "The drowsy year from winter's sleep ye wake, Yet two of ye do not a summer make." "`Well, said he, grinning, `you'd better tell her straight off it's bosh, and then she's not likely to make a fool of herself again.
For in all the best approved romances the more sumptuous persons of antiquity are very guilty of twaddle on at least one printed page in ten, and nobody remonstrates; and here is John Bulmer, too, lugged from the grave for your delectation. I presume, however, to palliate the offence.
They were, however, so far removed from the average drawing-room medley of twaddle and rattle that the music interpreted the words into its own universal language, and made them almost superfluous.
The following is a fair example of the questions asked, and also of the sloppy twaddle in the way of answers, furnished by Manchester under the pretense that it came from the specter. If this man is not the paltriest fraud that lives, I owe him an apology QUESTION. Where are you? ANSWER. In the spirit world. Q. Are you happy? A. Very happy. Perfectly happy. Q. How do you amuse yourself?
This is what is called the sort of twaddle to make one go to sleep on one's feet; but it is what comes to the tip of your pen when you are in Brittany and have nothing else to say." Even in Brittany and at the Rochers, Madame de Sevigne always has something to say.
There was no superstition perceptible in him; he ridiculed signs, the evil eye, and other "twaddle," yet he did not like it when a hare ran across his path, and it was not quite agreeable for him to meet a priest. He was very respectful to ecclesiastical persons, nevertheless, and asked their blessing, and even kissed their hand every time, but he talked with them reluctantly.
In modern times some poor people, bothered by hypnotists, have been sent to lunatic asylums and have fallen victims of the greed, cruelty, and neglect that so often prevail there. One must give Dr. The "spirits" of spiritists are, of course, not impressive, if their somewhat startling amount of information be excepted. The language used by George Pelham is pure twaddle.
"And I've been worrying you with my silly twaddle about babies and guns." "It's a godsend for me to hear of anything save ruin and the breaking up of all that was dear to me in life. It's not like failure in an ordinary business. It has been infinitely more than a business to me. It has been a religion. It is still. That's why my soul refuses to grasp facts and figures."
"And what do you think of Saint Werner's?" asked Mr Admer, taking the initiative, with a yawn. Julian's face lighted up. "Think of it! I feel uncommonly proud already of being a Saint Werner's man." "Genius loci, and all that sort of thing, eh?" The sneering way in which this was said left room for no reply, so Mr Admer continued. "Ah you'll soon find all that sort of twaddle wear off."
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