| 单词 | twaddle |
| 例句 | No one would look her in the eye for fear of getting an earful of Tonist twaddle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He is seated at a table with three other men, twaddling a fat cigar between the finger and thumb of one hand and holding five fanned cards in the other. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Almost at once the Bogdanov paper excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Women could be oppressors, too, she thought, and she took a dim view of “inane woman’s rights, man-rebellious twaddle.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “All that really matters,” she said to me one morning, “is that you kids learn to read. That other twaddle is just brainwashing.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The original myth of Icarus is more daunting and resonant than anything here, which was all perfectly enjoyable twaddle. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Despite revolving around a family of murderers, its domestic claustrophobia is hardly generic British crime twaddle. Ben Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy' 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z If you think about how life is lived for everybody, not just writers, day by day, most of it is lubricated by the graciousness of mere twaddle. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z This was long before the Mail's infamous online sidebar of shame; before phrases such as "enviable", "flaunting her curves", "bikini body" and all the other twaddle that now exists. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z There was a good running gag, too: a breaking story about Jeremy Paxman going on the rampage, with Jon Holmes reporting from the scene and talking excited twaddle to fill the rolling news vacuum. Radio review: Listen Against 2010-09-08T07:01:00Z There’s sexist twaddle — “‘I actually prefer the women’s league to the mens.’ Put down the Trevor Noah pitchforks: His offensive, unfunny tweets shouldn’t cost him “The Daily Show” just yet 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It turns out that many things I thought about autism were twaddle. My autistic son made me see the season anew – a Christmas tree is not a fish! 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “I think the poetry world is full of nonsense and twaddle,” Mr. Gibson said. Inside the 'Circus' of Oxford's Poetry Professor Election 2010-06-11T18:41:00Z These are usually twaddle but at least one of them is a fantastic read: The Politician by Andrew Young. Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z A hodgepodge of pseudoscientific twaddle and variously shifty murder suspects, “Rememory” satisfies neither as science fiction nor as psychological drama. Review: In ‘Rememory,’ the Machine Knows What You Did 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Though I think the social personality is not always fraudulent, James called it “the graciousness of mere twaddle.” Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z All of which makes for an unapologetically old-fashioned, beautifully shot, thunderingly unsubtle melodrama that falls somewhere between diverting twaddle and humourless hoopla. The Making Of A Lady is preposterous and proud of it 2012-12-15T00:05:00Z Because if those lines are not tendentious twaddle, they have a hell of a lot in common with it. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z These words, Huxley continued, “of course have a kind of indecency and must necessarily ring false, seem like twaddle. But the fact remains.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z This was self-indulgent twaddle, inappropriate in these austere times and built on an entirely erroneous premise and poor science. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z “This delusional freak show is two hours of pretentious twaddle,” he said, concluding: “I hesitate to label it the ‘Worst movie of the year’ when ‘Worst movie of the century’ fits it even better.” What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Shaw’s lively, unfailingly articulate mind is especially welcome at a time when public debate has regressed to Twitter twaddle. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Fortunately, even in a predominantly Catholic country, this kind of insulting twaddle is becoming increasingly less acceptable. Catholic group’s anti-gay campaign shut down by college 2013-12-06T17:14:00Z Brown calling his fans Team Breezy is too perfect: his music is disposable, faceless twaddle. Is Chris Brown's rehabilitation now complete? 2012-07-14T23:06:20Z Asked how, in her case, an actress prepares, she doesn’t for a moment revert to the pretentious twaddle that sometimes comes out of the pretty mouths of her contemporaries. T Magazine: Kirsten Dunst: '60s Going on 30 2011-10-14T02:17:29Z Does it matter that choreography, music and story for “Don Quixote” are all twaddle? Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z First, it is no exaggeration to say that this statement may be the most self-serving pile of bombastic twaddle Silicon Valley has ever created. Column: AI investors say they'll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don't believe it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z But Allsopp described her argument as "a load of utter twaddle". Channel 4 stars speak out on privatisation plan 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z He lists several reasons, for example, that claims about purportedly hacked Dominion voting machines were “absolute nonsense” and “meaningless twaddle.” Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z And frankly, often, Republicans act like losers who can’t win elections fairly — the brazen gerrymanders, the craven coddling of Donald Trump’s “stop the steal” twaddle. Opinion | What if Republicans become a majority party? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z You dismiss heritage as “unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war.” Readers on Spike Lee, Ivanka Trump, Confederate statues, racism and white complicity 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Yet, even now, the website of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is a model of equivocation, filled with unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war and not being judgmental now. Commentary: Confederate monuments institutionalize racism. Take them all down. Now 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z He considered the highbrow dramas of “Masterpiece Theatre” little more than well-dressed twaddle. Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In the Independent, the poet Lachlan MacKinnon declared the book to be “egregious twaddle. The poet laureate has written a barmy book in which his project of making Shakespeare a writer of mythic significance fails.” How Shakespeare's 'blood cult’ became Ted Hughes’s fatal obsession 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z But Mr Batten said her statement was "politically correct twaddle". UKIP AM quits party over 'far-right move' 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In the kindest possible way, this is ignorant twaddle. Author Neil Gaiman backs Marvel writer 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z And for those of us who have written quite a lot about what a load of smug, overpriced, crackpot twaddle this is, there is a very revealing section in Paltrow’s profile. Gwyneth Paltrow's latest profile reveals the wellness industry's utter quackery 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “No offense to y’all at Forbes, but a little research would prevent you from publishing this kind of twaddle,” wrote the Harris County Public Library in Texas in a response to the article on Facebook. 'Twaddle': librarians respond to suggestion Amazon should replace libraries 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the challenge is not about filling up a whole minute with non-repetitious twaddle – which some people find surprisingly easy – but enduring it without any content whatsoever. Is it time to give the overworked one-minute’s silence a rest? | Giles Fraser 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z He added: "Her statement is politically correct twaddle to disguise the fact that Mrs Jones is politically ineffective. I wish her well languishing in the outer realms of irrelevance." UKIP AM quits party over 'far-right move' 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z So what should we call the twaddle and claptrap Trump spouts? Opinion | Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Writing to the novelist Sarah Orne Jewett, James characterized the compliments writers pay one another as “the mere twaddle of graciousness.” What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It would question management twaddle in government, in popular culture, in the private sector, in education and in our private lives. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Whether the role model remark adds up to more than two days of Twitter twaddle for Ms. Ayotte is a matter of mystery. Donald Trump as Role Model? G.O.P. Senator ‘Absolutely’ Has Second Thoughts 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z She has spoken of her aversion to stages and of her impatience with what Henry James, her lifelong inspirator, called “the twaddle of mere graciousness.” Cynthia Ozick’s Long Crusade 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I believe all of these studies are twaddle. Take Research Studies With a Mountain of Salt 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z When asked in 1897 why he didn’t write in Polish, Joseph Conrad replied: “I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle.” What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z A promise to lift caps on foreign ownership of listed firms—for the moment limited to 49% in most industries—is bogged down in bureaucratic twaddle. Gold stars 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The only problem was that, her well-earned contempt for Trump aside, everything she said was complete twaddle. Carly Fiorina can't win, but she can help the men of the party hurt Clinton | Jeb Lund 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z While much of the article was “twaddle,” he said, its central conclusion was “completely accurate in assessment.” Emails Show How Hillary Clinton Valued Input From Sidney Blumenthal 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z I had a gift for recognizing twaddle, and there’s nothing remarkable about it. Charlie Munger's 2015 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Part 2 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z It would be difficult to match Boris Yeltsin, the drunkard who turned tanks on Russia’s post-Soviet democracy, for the effusions of twaddle he elicited among American policy people, pundits, scholars and correspondents. Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead — and America’s elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z No voter should base his or her decision on 20-year-old twaddle from a fired Trek employee who now is a Republican county chairman - all dredged up a week before the election. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The NRA’s chief lobbyist penned some twaddle in the Daily Caller just a few days before the Santa Barbara killings. 8 worst right-wing moments of the week — Bill O’Reilly is so smug it hurts 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z That is unquestionably nothing more than silly, sentimental twaddle, especially in view of a 2012 study by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The New York Times Food Writer Who Is Always Out To Lunch 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z There's so much twaddle written about being tired. Lawro's predictions v Sam Bailey 2014-03-27T17:49:25Z For instance, I believe that Obama truly believes that this kind of self-help twaddle that he talks is a way to combat inequality. We are all right-wingers now: How Fox News, ineffective liberals, corporate Dems and GOP money captured everything 2014-03-09T11:00:00Z “A gift for all of us to enjoy,” The Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner twaddled this week. The Masters presents a phony, sanitized South 2013-04-11T17:06:00Z Harold Pinter, also then in his twenties, saw Beckett as the the "most courageous, remorseless writer going", while reviewer Bernard Levin described Waiting for Godot as "a remarkable piece of twaddle". Still waiting for Godot 2013-01-05T01:31:30Z Miss Woolfrey giggles foolishly, gossips inanely, meanders with a stream of senseless twaddle; but she is gratified by smiles and nods and handshakings. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z It appeared that certain amiable slayers of their own and others' time, envisaging a studio of divans, Russian cigarettes, tea and twaddle, paid one visit, and only one. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z First of all, get rid of conventional morality, rid your mind of all religious twaddle about another life, and then suck the orange of this life dry. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z The answer is, they don't live, unless they write twaddle for the Grand Old Public, which must be tickled with fluff and flattery. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In its case it is the ghost of a penny, the ghost of the representative penny of all the pennies ready to buy vapid twaddle, but not earnest thought. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Here have you been wasting an hour of my time with your empty twaddle, and hiding the beauties of Paradise from my gaze. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z What in the scale was this twaddle of the dowager's--this buckram rubbish of an old school--this bit of red-tape, which might come to be the halter of liberty! My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Before doing so, however, I feel bound to observe that from time to time a vast amount of "twaddle" is ventilated on the question of the propriety of ladies riding with hounds. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z This twaddle about "democratic art" is the bane of our literature. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z And was his father, the most despotic and violent of baronets, and very much dipt, likely to listen to sentimental twaddle pleading against a hundred thousand a year? Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Had K'dunk been a German choir-leader he could not have so promptly and perfectly expressed his opinion of the wretched twaddle. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z Brighella answered that such matters were mere twaddle, like the new comedies, which turned everything topsy-turvy without reason. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Her rude hand had touched the sorest place in Zina's heart, but her crude and absurd sentimental twaddle had not blinded her daughter. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z “Don’t talk twaddle,” cried his tormentor; “he took us all home, for the matter o’ that.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z How comes it, then, that he could so often fob us off with languid, inarticulate twaddle?... Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Old ladies come to this twaddle when they can do nothing else. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Five words of your own articulation—by which I mean scratches of your own pen—will go further with me than any amount of roundabout twaddle. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z But I'm all right now—I'm not drunk—I shan't talk twaddle as I did last night; don't be afraid sir, it's all right! Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z "I promised young Trafford I'd go and see what I thought of that new gun of his," growled the Major, "and here's that jackanapes keeping me in to listen to his insulting twaddle." Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z I wish, dear Ellen, you would tell me what is the "twaddle" about my marrying, which you hear. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z When I see so much twaddle going on I wonder those who can don't get up something better, and have really good things. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Now, mother, you know you are just talking twaddle when you let that idea about 'our set' rule your mind. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z I don’t know exactly what people find to bite into, for the supply of scandal’s small and it’s little more than twaddle at that. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z About de war and cotton “famine,” Dey talk a heap of “twaddle and gammon,” Far away, etc. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Write me no more of your customary twaddle; three years now it has been going on, and every instant proves its falsehood! Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z "Are you never going to forget that senseless bit of twaddle?" The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z When did he ever pronounce wire-drawn twaddle or sickly fancies, simply reeking of their impending dissolution, to be enduring and noble workmanship? Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z The rule is to take certain words that rhyme, like kiss and bliss, and love and glove, and for the rest to talk about the moon and some sentimental twaddle. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Heavens, when I think that I endured this twaddle for one whole year I— Gil. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z We want a nation and we want it spelt with a big N.” This is the merest twaddle. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Empty writing was excused by an empty stomach, and twaddle was consecrated by tears.... Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Newspapers were not so full of twaddle as they are now; that spawn of the press, the newspaper interviewer, had not as yet sprung into existence. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z The editorial page must go to the stereotypers at half-past one, and I had no soul to help me even by writing twaddle with which to fill space. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z If you'd called her literary works twaddle she'd have laughed, and pitied your bad taste, but now—take it from me—if she hasn't avenged herself already it's not her fault. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z This is running, I know, right in the teeth of the romantic twaddle of the day, about congenial sentiments, and the like; but is it not true? The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z On English belles I turned my back, Diddle, daddle, deedle; And got a foreign fair quite black, O twaddle, twaddle, tweedle! Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts 2011-07-06T02:00:44.873Z But are we less ridiculous, or rather has not that ridiculous exaggeration of the personal, which is the foundation of newspaper twaddle, become more of a nuisance than ever? Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z "You silly old Dicky," she said, "you've been listening to a lot of stupid twaddle at your clubs." A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z Out of the welter of talk and twaddle I collared this conviction: the England we love has vanished never to return. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Looking at the flat, flaccid visage of her interlocutor, she would have declared it to be impossible for her to wound her by this inane twaddle, peppered with weak spite. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z "So you're not a woman's—" "I'm absolutely against the whole feminine twaddle!" he broke in. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z He has been a fortune to the men who think it creditable to write gossip and twaddle for newspapers in London or the provinces. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z One has only to think of all the sentimental twaddle so often talked about Chopin, Beethoven, and even about Bach—and that in schools for the training of professional musicians! An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Firstly: My time and the exigencies of my profession will not permit me to further pursue a discussion which, on your part, has degenerated into the merest twaddle. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z "Mrs. Wyllys—" "Is a fool! see that you don't become another in listening to her twaddle!" was the peremptory reply. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z You would say no, unless you saw an issue, Stripped clean of Christian twaddle, as we’ll say The Greeks beheld the Persians. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z As usual, the American press rolled over like petrified corgis before this onslaught of elitist twaddle, laying smooth the path for William and Kate to dominate the conversation for the rest of the spring. Why America's Anglophiles Are Missing the Point of the Royal Wedding 2011-04-28T09:10:00Z I don't think people will take more than a monthly dose of 'my bitters,' and I incline to suspect mawkish twaddle and old Joe Millers would hit the mark better. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z You've called me an old heathen all my life long; perhaps I was wrong in acting as I have, but oh, how I always hated methodistical twaddle..... An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z It is true that he fell short of great accomplishment and that he was guilty of small foibles which Haydon exaggerated into “petticoat twaddling and Grandisonian cant.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z All that day, morning, afternoon, and evening, I laboured or twaddled at arithmetic with Mr. Howse. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z “If you cannot speak common sense, you idiot,” Bruce fiercely exclaimed, “keep your idle twaddle for those who may mistake it for wit!” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z His writings the very slip-slop of "commerage," the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, 'Pencillings by the Way!' Nuts and Nutcrackers 2011-03-08T03:00:45.687Z He went twaddling on with his vapid discourse upon the state of the political atmosphere, placid as some babbling stream, until the dusky shadows began to gather in the corners of the low old-fashioned chamber. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Despite of all the twaddling old blockhead could do to prevent it, the haunch was nevertheless brought in, and its appearance hailed with considerable delight. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Many were the almost volumes of sentimental twaddle I wrote both to and about him, and I used to listen for his footstep on my staircase as the great event of the evening. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Because the oyster does not go shouting around, or annoy us with his twaddle, does not mean that he is deprived of life's lingual interchanges. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z But pray let us put an end to all this twaddle. The House of Strange Secrets A Detective Story 2011-01-15T03:00:37.173Z "A very pious manner of spending his time," Pen said, laughing, and thinking that his uncle was falling into the twaddling state. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z Dare say I shall have to waste half an hour listening to centennial twaddle before I get what I want! Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z But he dawdles and twaddles so much over details, we have generally done very little before the hour ends, when he says, 'I will not detain you any longer.' Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z In vain did he recall the arguments by which, in a certain memorable conversation, he had tried to refute Erna's assertions--it had been a lie, a lie--or, at best, mere theoretical twaddle. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z Their imposing head coach, Rob Baxter, elder brother of Richie, has no time for romantic twaddle about lifetime dreams and fairytale endings. Exeter ready to prove they belong in the Premiership 2010-09-03T13:03:00Z Alien abduction flick The Fourth Kind is dangerous twaddle | Chris French 5. The dotcom millionaires launching their own private space race 2010-03-21T00:06:00Z This silly twaddle about Captain Kolb going over to Harrison, is just such nonsensical stuff as the average of Alabama Democratic editors deem fit to feed the Democratic “gods and little fishes” on. Politics of Alabama And I believe, just because I took her sharp like that without whining to be forgiven and twaddle of that kind, her hand closed on the paper, and she read it. Deep Moat Grange And in the presence of this appalling condition the professional politicians prattle about tariff revision and indulge in silly twaddle about currency reform and regulation of the trusts. Labor and Freedom But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle? Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Of course that was it, and unless I got rid of him the old bore would stand and twaddle the rest of the night. The Haunted Pajamas The manager had a suspicion that the editor had been looking on the whisky when it was golden, else he could not have written such twaddle. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life That was because the German people were not yet corrupted by that shallow, unreal, hollow twaddle of the educated classes about humanity. The Progressionists, and Angela. I don't care to have every dish I eat seasoned with the twaddle of cheap-trippers. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel This is an age of critical enquiry; commonplace twaddling, inane generalities, and magniloquent essays and lectures, even if delivered by professors who enjoy the happiness of presiding over Roman colleges, only excite derision. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 And just listen to the twaddle this old man is made to talk! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 I am taking steps to prevent such senseless twaddle about Adrian Grant as appeared in the Weekly Review from becoming general. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Ah, but they don't—since, as I tell you, she's even while we talk the centre of the mystic circle of the twaddle of M. de Dreuil; chained to a stake if you can be. The Sacred Fount Am I to be the victim of every twaddling old bore that requires an address? One Of Them Women are so queer about things of that sort, and the papers are full of twaddle. The Heart of a Woman You will find year after year faint and delicate suggestions as to amendatory laws, opinions that there is doubt of the legality of amalgamations, and other twaddle. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. The United States of America, which makes a point of talking the higher twaddle about all men being free and equal, can barely manage to bring any wealthy pot to justice. The New Warden In the last contest much of the "stump" speaking was the veriest twaddle, an appeal to prejudice, and hate, and sectionalism, full of scurrility, personality, and vulgar anecdote. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. There were books of beauty, wherein loveliness was most aristocratic; and annuals where nobility condescended to write twaddle. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I couldn't make head or tail of it; I thought it all twaddle. The Heart of a Woman Am I Pepys, that because I can find the countenance of “some of our ablest merchants,” that because—and—pour forth languid twaddle and get paid for it, I, too, should “cheerfully continue to steal”? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) His writings the very slip-slop of “commerage,” the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, ‘Pencillings by the Way!’ Nuts and Nutcrackers It is ‘Lover’s Quarrel,’ or some such twaddle, I think.” Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 I am an old woman, and the twaddle of a London drawing-room would fall strangely upon my ears now, but I had my share of it before Arthur was born. A Monk of Cruta There was considerable more of this nonsensical twaddle. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp We have just the same literary fall as happened in India from Brahminism to Buddhism; a twaddling flow of words after a noble inspiration. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages About ten the innocent twaddle closed by a man coming in with a lantern to light home old Bickerstaff. Old and New London Volume I 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 Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror This hypocritical twaddle, this licentious casuistry, was “very good style” in Germany then, and was highly appreciated. German Problems and Personalities “Is Round gone, then?” asked Mr. Burr, a young man who had left the room soon after he came in, having been annoyed with his valetudinarian twaddle. Talkers With Illustrations He arrays himself as it were in his victory, enthrones himself in his foolishness, triumphs in his senseless twaddling. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages This twaddling old screed which you were going to sell without ever skimming it through holds what means nothing more or less than a thumping great fortune for each of us. The Recipe for Diamonds And what twaddle, that about the funeral train, what betraying arrangements in a country where every sign-post has eyes! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature For once in a way Robinson may have produced something we can read; to everybody’s surprise, the great Jones has dropped into the direst twaddle. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Yes, I told myself, I hated the daily round of Fleet Street, with its never-slackening demand for the production of restrained moralising, polished twaddle, and non-committal, two-sided conclusions, or careful omissions, and one-eyed deductions. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography They alone preserve us from false conclusions, and sentimental twaddle. Woman under socialism Arguments of this character have indeed a semblance of merit, but, when examined by the light of truth, are mere empty, worthless twaddle. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent He was very twaddling, and said but one good thing, when he called O’Connell the member for Ireland. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II By the side of twaddling, again, mere rambling grows venial. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects At the time I thought it pretty vapid twaddle. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Be those words our sign of parting!" cried Dunraven, swift upstarting; "Sweating's an accursed system, but if now our toil is o'er, We leave twaddle as sole token of the swelling words we've spoken. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 From their name they would seem a suitable residence for a person who scribbles twaddle in Magazines—ahem! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 But when we are forced to think of Slender and Shallow, and Sir Hugh Evans, and the Shakespearian method of portraiture, the personages in Landor's talk seem half asleep and terribly given to twaddle. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Believes that outlandish Yankee twaddle about a woman wanting any rights except the right to a husband! The Romance of a Plain Man Of course, we generally performed the music of Handel and other classical authors; Mendelssohn’s compositions were still considered as mere twaddle by some of the old school. My Autobiography A Fragment One could smoke one's pipe outside when twaddle was within. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II No tedious twaddle—Ah!—and you're forbidden To kneel when he comes in. L'Aiglon Peel's a perfect old wife—twaddles on about diet, About exercise, air, mild aperients, and quiet; Would leave Nature alone to her vigour elastic, And never exhibit a drug that is drastic. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 She preferred the twitter and twaddle of Priscilla’s workroom to the intense realities of an existence always verging on eternity. A Singer from the Sea This shows the value of the usual twaddle concerning this question. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study And because he was a son of Vondeplosshe the same family friends endured his conceited twaddle and his knock-kneed, wicked little self, and sighed with relief when he went away. The Gorgeous Girl It would really be very gratifying to me if the people who know no more about the Plymouth Rocks than they do about the fate of Charlie Ross, would keep their twaddle out of print. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside I am prepared to listen even though your twaddle bores me.” The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills For wall decorations they love autotypes; for literature, harmless volumes of twaddle that leave no vivid impressions on the mind; for dinners, harmless dishes that are forgotten as they are eaten. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences What it came to was that the sort of twaddle that was not in his chords was, unexpectedly, just what they happened this time not to want. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 He couldn't do otherwise than laugh at the puny Cockney bookseller, pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle, and hold him up to scorn as a moll-coddle and a milksop. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The Tribune lauds the crossing and the recrossing of the river, as an act of superhuman bravery; and Lincoln sympathises with the heavily wounded, and twaddles extensively about comparative losses. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 As he staggered up and tried to balance himself, he blurted out some unmeaning twaddle in his native language which I took to be a species of greeting. The Land of Thor Perhaps I'm not what you'd call sympathetic but I've heard a lot of men talk about these people in a way that sounds to me like twaddle. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America "And where do you pick up such vulgar twaddle?" The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 So when we relate similar circumstances concerning M. Cousin, we p. 139must nevertheless add, with discriminating eulogy: M. Cousin, if he has sometimes sat twaddling at the distaff, has never laid aside the lion’s skin. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete “That's all silly twaddle, and there is no God,” he said, horrifying my mother, the servants, and me too. The Brothers Karamazov It was a severe, but just criticism of all the twaddle of the Western press after the Chicago Woman's Suffrage Convention. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II How much were you paid for giving me this twaddle? Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The fact is, that a new Cockney school has arisen, ten times more twaddling and impotent than the ancient academy of that name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Empty writing was excused by an empty stomach, and twaddle was consecrated by tears. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Punch's appeal for the marsupial martyr Is based upon an ancient nursery model; But he will find that he has caught a Tartar, Who hints that Punch is talking heartless twaddle. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 You barely succeed in misrepresenting men at your best, let alone this atrocious twaddle about representing women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The scene is commonplace enough; twaddle and tea, after tennis; "frivolling"—it is their word; women too empty-headed and men too tired to do anything else. Appearances Being Notes of Travel Thousands of girls go queer because they're forced to by starvation—" "Nonsense!" cried Athalie hotly, "that is all stage twaddle and exaggerated sentimentalism! Athalie Cunningham must have his joke, so he is beguiling you with twaddle about hunting pearls. The Pagan Madonna Your precious word compromised is only the twaddle of a countrified miss. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Next, she must have thrown overboard all the twaddle about domestic duties and responsibilities. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Yes, it is only the club, only tea and twaddle! Appearances Being Notes of Travel "My boy, pity me; I believe I am the only person still alive who has ever sat out every single Pantomime that has been written for ten years, and oh! what twaddle they were." The Tale of Lal A Fantasy I'd show them the pace, I'd go it myself once more and be d——d to all this rot and twaddle about Nature! Ringfield A Novel What do you fellers say to all this twaddle? A Virginia Scout Is the conversation between men and women filled exclusively with twaddle? A Black Adonis There were innuendoes regarding certain women, but I put them out of my mind as twaddle. The Place of Honeymoons "You know that twaddle in the Gargoyle Record about the poet being stuck for a rhyme to 'hunger'?" The Hero of Garside School For fulsome twaddle finds best check in Fun! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 “Then you don’t believe this twaddle about equality?” asked the doctor. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Look at Wordsworth; in his lifetime the general reading public considered him a prosy old gentleman, who twaddled pleasantly about lakes and mountains, and pretty little peasant girls. Vixen, Volume III. Of course I never believed any of that twaddle. The Place of Honeymoons She has an inexhaustible well-spring of twaddle in her own mind. Vixen, Volume I. She would be much better off at Brighton, or some of those places where she could see people from the windows, and have plenty of twaddling old dowager society.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster “Words have no power to express my loathing for such twaddle!” cried Stoneman, snapping his great jaws together and pursing his lips with contempt. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Exposed to the world, no author of such twaddle could long evade assassination. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 I liked her songs; I hate the twaddle of the present day. Girls of the Forest But cut out your vulgar bond twaddle, and don’t ask her if she stole your suitcase! The Madness of May When you do really, you know all the rest's been half twaddle and half greed. The Dark Tower The grown men and women of the United States, can hardly regard such poor twaddle as this with a serious eye. American Sketches 1908 That promise of notices and articles in the papers and his extravagant praises of her talent seemed to her merely insincere twaddle. The Comedienne He is a very nice, squinting old twaddle, and we liked him. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I "Vandyck don't seem to realize that I have a prior claim, and that his twaddle, therefore, only serves to render him ridiculous." The Diamond Coterie He's a blowhard, a gasbagger, a balloon full of curses and twaddle. The Kangaroo Marines There is the usual twaddle about "moral force," forsooth, under which saving periphrasis, now-a-days, every rebel ranter in field, or tub, or conventicle, insinuates lawless violence without naming it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The talk about teaching is, to my thinking, undiluted twaddle. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It wasn't satisfied with teaching us Greek and Latin and Evidences of Christianity and tall-brow twaddle of all sorts. At Good Old Siwash As a dramatic critic said in my hearing a day or two later, when discussing the popular entertainments of London, 'Most of these shows consist of vulgar, brainless twaddle.' "The Pomp of Yesterday" What twaddle are you talking with your vital principle? Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life And it was only that infernal twaddle caused it and made her write you that letter. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Curse her infernal twaddle about the rights of humanity and such fustian. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 The greater portion of them is simply twaddle, and what is worse, theological twaddle. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion What you say to me now, is meaningless twaddle. Princess Zara “Grotesque idiot,” said Kenrick, laughing; “cease this weak, washy, everlasting flood of twaddle, and tell us whether you’ll come or no.” St. Winifred's, or The World of School The women may talk of bonnets, but their lofty and fiery souls glow through the twaddle. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 The abb� shrugged his shoulders, putting aside the patriotic twaddle. En Route He spurns the idealistic twaddle of those who, he says, are guided by their hopes rather than by ordinary good sense, and fancies himself a practical man. Hidden from the Prudent The 7th William Penn Lecture, May 8, 1921 If we go on twaddling thus about the Greeks and Romans, we shall lose the thread of our discourse, and possibly be found tripping on the subject of Wolf's Prolegomena. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 “Is there any man in Newcome except, perhaps, our twaddling old contemporary, the Sentinel,” &c. Pickwickian Studies "Now let's can all this twaddle and get down to work," he said sharply. Ted and the Telephone The extent to which “mamma’s twaddle” and other matters “put Graeme about” at this time she concealed quite, as far as Arthur was concerned. Janet's Love and Service “Ah you’ll soon find all that sort of twaddle wear off.” Julian Home Schillie.—"Then, pray, indulge your fancy, and, in addition to keeping your journal, keep it locked up, for it is quite enough to endure all the children's twaddle, without writing it down." Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island It seemed to Nell, judging by his expression, that he had suddenly become impatient of the twaddle, and she instantly dropped the paper on her lap. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden "How do you figure that kind of twaddle ties in with anything?" Masters of Space "A business meeting here always makes me think of the 'Antis,' and their twaddle about woman's sphere, which they would like to reduce to a demi-hemisphere." An American Suffragette “No, no,” said Walter positively, “call them boys; to call them young men is all bosh; we shall have ‘young gentlemen’ next, which is awful twaddle.” Julian Home "Cut the Socialist twaddle!" directed the other coarsely. The Sins of Séverac Bablon If I might judge from your twaddle, you imagine me to be saddled with the very cares and worries from which I justly boasted that I was exempt. French and Oriental Love in a Harem We suspect that the Doctor, disgusted with the “twaddle” that has undoubtedly been talked in all ages about the “magnanimity” of the “noble” lion and his “terrific aspect,” has been led unintentionally to underrate him. Hunting the Lions All the audience got for their money were some remarks of the most commonplace and twaddling description. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Sleep is good for the body, and twaddle is not good for the soul. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 “She has been very patient and kind of an evening in listening to me, though I am afraid I have often bored her terribly with my long-winded twaddle about ornithology and botany.” The Rajah of Dah Come outside, Nell—come down to the waterhole, it's cool there, and better fun than listening to an old woman's twaddle. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Conventional diction, pastorals, and twaddle about Nature belonged to the nonsensical side. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century No doubt the Cardinal came at Hughes with the twaddle invented by the Nationalists and later adopted by Laurier, about enforcing the Militia Act which provided for nothing but defence. The Masques of Ottawa The minor of the spiritist is: "This is romantic"; that of the Huxley an is: "this is dingy twaddle"—whence their opposite conclusions! Memories and Studies Now, the history of the American line is a perfect refutation of all this twaddle. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Enough of this mockery of reasoning and argument, and of all this empty twaddle. The Argonauts This is long and muddy discourse: but the walls of Charlotte Street present little else, especially during this last week of Lent, to twaddle about. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 A Roman thou art though much taken with the twaddle of a Jew. The Coming of the King On the one hand, he could hardly have borne Grogan's twaddle on the journey to Tilbury, his mind being engrossed as it was. Mary Gray "I know of course," she added quickly, "that to befool yourself with such twaddle you must be pretty bad." The Tragic Muse Young persons often labor under the erroneous impression that in order to be agreeable they must talk "small talk;" this literally means, "silly twaddle," which disgusts everybody, and yet which all seek to imitate. Plain Facts for Old and Young There is nothing more certain to permanently bewilder a vocal student than to deluge him with pseudo-scientific twaddle about the voice. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing He found Elizabeth again, surrounded by a circle of admirers—men and women—an oasis of intelligence, it seemed to him as he listened, in a desert of twaddle. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Bob knows nothing of the sentimental twaddle about that interesting class of people who are more sinned against than sinning. The Patient Observer And His Friends Nick inquired with an interest which surprised his sister, Mr. Nash's discourse striking her mainly as the twaddle of the under-world. The Tragic Muse In the meantime, Sam Turner took careful lessons in the art of talking twaddle, and they never knew that he was bored. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story This sort of Lacedemonian twaddle went on during the whole time of my visit, and my cousin evidently was proud of being surrounded by such Spartans. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Most of all I hate the society twaddle. The Cow Puncher ‘I wish, dear Ellen, you would tell me what is the “twaddle about my marrying, etc.,” which you hear. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle It was as if she were still beset with Mrs. Rooth's twaddle and muddle, her hypocrisy, her idiotic scruples—something she felt all need to belabour, to trample on. The Tragic Muse The twaddle about Sagittarius would have to be cleared up sometime, but meanwhile he was in pretty good shape. The Sky Is Falling Hardly a public man opens his mouth in England to refer to Morocco, without talking absolute twaddle. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond To this childish twaddle Halleck replied: "My dear General, you have done nobly!" The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis It is equally absurd to fine—what twaddle!—a lad for taking a bird's egg. Nature Near London All talk about soiled doves and the rest is mere nauseous twaddle, arising from ignorance. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary So much twaddle has been written about the East that cads and scoundrels are mistaken for Galahads and D'Artagnans. Parrot & Co. Of course there are those for whom all this is unmitigated twaddle and bosh. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals A shortish man with a red beard and an invalid wife: wrote twaddling novels. Enter Bridget It is intolerable to have to listen to such twaddle. In the World War But I'm not going to argue that kindergarten twaddle of the college highbrows, Wayland. The Freebooters of the Wilderness "I shouldn't wonder if it were sentimental twaddle," sighed the Journalist, "but I don't know." Told in a French Garden August, 1914 The message, as you say, is divine; but it may sound like meaningless twaddle to the world at large. Visionaries Only to me come down real British plays, The mid-Victorian twaddle, the false gems p. 217Which on the stretched forefinger of oblivion Glitter a moment, and then perish paste. Masques & Phases That's the way with you, always firing out Wordsworth's silly twaddle, and objecting to a piece of genuine poetry because it's in a reader. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life And while Annie was turning back quilts and smoothing pillows and fumbling at windows, with the freedom of long service she soundly berated the Doctor for postponing the bed-time hour with his Christmas twaddle. When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story It does seem such twaddle—and so unlike what I want to say! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books Who can tell what may be the effect of seeing day by day an hideous building, of hearing day by day indifferent music, of constantly reading a lot of feeble twaddle? Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses He threw the legal twaddle into the gutter. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Page was impatient at this kind of twaddle. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Country people are tolerant of twaddle, and slow of finding things out for themselves. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour We hear a great deal of twaddle about the law of the survival of the fittest. The Pride of Palomar Because of this attitude the conference, which ought to have had the character of an assembly deciding affairs of state, took on the character of a boisterous meeting, which lasted several days of unending twaddle. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy When I mean The Times, I say The Times, and I condemn the old-fashioned twaddle of talking about "a morning contemporary." Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences What I wish is to give examples of how he has discarded all the involutions, convolutions, twiddles and twaddles of melody, and gone back to the simplicity and directness of Weber and Beethoven. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Ladies get on better with them than men: either the ladies are more tolerant of twaddle, or their discerning eyes see in the gawky youth the germ of future usefulness. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour After a great deal more twaddle like this, I asked him why you heretics all had such hard names, that we others never could speak them? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 And whilst they smoked and talked twaddle, the grim, gaunt Shadow of Death chuckled in the watches of the night, thinking of the harvest that was to follow. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front It was when Aunt Charlotte stigmatised these philosophical reflections as a pack of impertinent twaddle that Austin had had the audacity to say that she was like a frog. Austin and His Friends There is nothing on earth so stupid as the twaddle of a sick old lord, especially when repenting for his sins. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One This is something that has been the cause of much vile verse in bad poets, of such gruesome twaddle as Senator Vest's dreadful outbark. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Lord! how you twaddle and waddle and squall Like common-bred geese and ganders! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood "Thus, not only is this part of the Kojiki pure twaddle, but it is not even consistent twaddle." The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji Leave no 'Magazine' as token of the twaddle you have spoken. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 Can even a man I thought large-minded and broad-minded and all the rest of it, go on twaddling about this as if he was an old washer-woman? The Spinners Tired of listening to his children memorize the twaddle of old fashioned English history the author covered the ground in his own peculiar and happy style for his own children's use. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs They had twaddled and stormed about his immorality, but his praise of Napoleon sent them into diabolic frenzy. The Tragedy of St. Helena This talk of fighting for somebody else is all lofty twaddle. Out To Win The Story of America in France And he twaddled of VON MOLTKE, and his German Army Corps; "Flattering the tax-payers' vanity," and much similar insanity, In a style that lacked urbanity, till the thing became a bore. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 But I would far rather have her true words of dispraise than all machine-made twaddle of nearly all the book columns of our great American press. Memories and Anecdotes If you had been behind the curtains, you would have said to yourself, how can all this gossip and twaddle find a place in the same head with certain ideas! Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) They both were aware that all this discussion was twaddle—like much that is done in diplomacy; that they were merely skirmishing to determine something as to each other's position. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse The study of archives has, on this point, completely overset the hobbies of architects, and demolished the twaddle of the Bonzes. The Cathedral No, there is none of this sentimental twaddle about the Bower to which we are alluding. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841 Ever since he avowed himself a religious character, he had written nothing but the most vapid and nerveless twaddle. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Religious twaddle is of no more use than worldly twaddle. Around The Tea-Table In conclusion, we can hardly recommend the book before us, further than to say, that its gossip, though often prosy to the verge of twaddle, is also sometimes droll and amusing from its graphic minuteness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 It's so easy, isn't it? to dress up one's rottenness in pretty sentimental twaddle. The Devil's Garden "National aspirations" are the twaddle of English enthusiasts who know nothing of Ireland. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question I may be planked down in a country village for the rest of my very unnatural life, but I'll be shot if I'll regulate mine or my wife'& behaviour by the twaddle they talk! Nightfall This jack-fool twaddle about there being not a single phrase in an opera which has not grown out of another is manifestly absurd—for out of what does the first one grow?—and utterly untrue. Wagner And here is a conversation that betrays the presence of one of the currents of public feeling below the smooth surface of well-bred twaddle: In the Metropolitan Railway. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians I shall only state that this conception of the Aryan philosophers is not to be looked upon as mere "theological twaddle" or as the outcome of wild fancy. Five Years of Theosophy "Kind hearts are more than coronets," What abject twaddle, on my word; And then the joke is in the end,— We know they made the bard a Lord. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 I always exclude you, my dear," he nodded to Laura, "but the parson twaddles on till he makes me sick, and Val's not much better. Nightfall The language used by George Pelham is pure twaddle. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men My dear Lefevre," said he, "I did not think you could urge such common twaddle! Master of His Fate It's all talk," he said to himself—"it's sentimental jargon, precious twaddle—all this mysterious babble about occult quality and humanity and sympathy. The Common Law I'm peculiarly constituted, perhaps, but I don't like this twaddle, and I can't help it! One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' Certainly there are many who sigh wistfully when they must lay aside some cherished writing of their own to devote an evening to illiterate twaddle. Shandygaff Mr. Dulcet, however, in his superb free verse, has scaled olympian heights, disdaining the customary twaddling topics of the rhymesters. Mince Pie The Gospel which this World of Fact does preach to one differs considerably from the sugary twaddle one gets the offer of in Exeter-Hall and other Spouting-places! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency. balcony, n. gallery, terrace. bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere. balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge. baldness, n. alopecia. Putnam's Word Book End of Act I.,—no action to speak of, but a good deal of wordy twaddle. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 All this idle talk, so common since the war, of a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight" is the merest twaddle and vilely untrue. History of Kershaw's Brigade Ali Baba, it may be taken for granted, did not intend to characterise as "a flood of twaddle" the whole of Lord Lytton's verse. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series I have often thought what W. Shakespeare would say, were he to sit one night in a "Shakespeare Society," and listen to the empty twaddle and other long-eared melody about him there!—Adieu, my Friend. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. And how they must have talked—no wonder Frederick, though the idol of his subjects, withdrew for such discourse from the society of the day, with its twaddle of the tea-cups and its parade-ground platitudes. William of Germany Pretentious twaddle, that would be repulsively immoral were it less idiotic. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 I am led to believe by column upon column of wishy-washy twaddle in the morning papers, that Henley Regatta has actually taken place. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 And if the profane reader ignores all that is either Greek or twaddle to him, there will yet remain for his advantage a vast amount of very sound information and advice. The Human Machine No history of it can be written to this wretched, fleering, sneering, canting, twaddling, God- forgetting generation. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. I wish that it were better; I wish that it were even worse; but it is the most undeniable twaddle. Yesterdays with Authors I hate the twaddling activities of our modern women, their little sports, their little sciences, their little earnestnesses, their little philanthropies, their little imitations of men's ways. Kimono If a person of this description begins to annoy a company with his or her twaddle, the only cure for it is to affect deafness—a very convenient infirmity at times. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 He did not expect a woman to give him a pension unconditionally, or without some little twaddle by way of drawback. A Perilous Secret I've settled it all"—this with a triumphant look on her baby-face—"with the author; such a splendid writer, none of your twaddling women-scribblers, but a real man, and a great friend of mine. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 8, 1890 Of all the blatant wretched twaddle I ever did read," he exclaimed, "this is positively the worst. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator It may come to nothing, of course, but it may also come to something worth more than a thousand twaddling novels. Father Payne "But your question is a good answer to my solemn twaddle on literature." Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio "It was too much twaddle for him," he had said in reply to Ethelyn's questions as to whether he would like to see what Aunt Van Buren had written. Ethelyn's Mistake To have to listen to all this well-meant twaddle was misery indeed. Bred in the Bone If I don't ask that, I shall have to ask Marie if she minds this pouring rain, or some twaddle about the weather.' Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert Merle can talk the whole bunch down when he gets to shooting on all six—sounds good, but I've no doubt it's just wise twaddle. The Wrong Twin "No, I don't quite rate it as twaddle," said Ida. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio When in that humour, it seems to me a desecration to hear you twaddling about the holy theme, for you are only a boy, and don't know how to feel. My Brilliant Career And this ridiculous old twaddle, after six and twenty years, he has deliberately re-written and lately republished as something "adapted to the schools of America." The Grammar of English Grammars It is all the twaddle of the conceit of man setting himself up to judge and limit his maker. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator The most mean-spirited and trumpery twaddle in the paragraph was, that Keats was so far gone in sensual excitement as to put Cayenne pepper upon his tongue, when taking his claret! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 This was twaddle, of course, and Martin knew it. Dust It seems to me that a great deal of unnecessary twaddle is abroad as to the extreme cruelty of branding. Arizona Nights And we leave it to flushed and blundering youth to stumble on its own significance, with nothing to guide in but shocked looks and sentimental twaddle and base whisperings and cant-smeared examples. Tono Bungay They were always talking about the rights of the white man, and demanding popular control of the Government, and similar twaddle. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies But you err in good company, Bunny, for all the cheap moralists who preach the same twaddle: old Virgil was the first and worst offender of you all. The Amateur Cracksman Why, all this twaddle, farce, travesty and by- play regarding Tommy! Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 Am I Pepys, that because I can find the countenance of 'some of our ablest merchants,' that because - and - pour forth languid twaddle and get paid for it, I, too, should 'cheerfully continue to steal'? Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Vanity Fair I assented and congratulated myself on my second escape—for if the question had been put to me I should have described it as God-forgotten twaddle. Mr. Standfast Most of them seem to be twaddling stuff, but the first is in a different style—'The Ancient Mariner' is the title. Adam Bede She would simply have dawdled along, twaddling about "art" and seriousness and careers and sacrifice, content with the amateur's methods and the amateur's results—and deluding herself that she was making progress. The Price She Paid She had not a doubt that he meant this melodramatic twaddle. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise She would not have twaddled about principles—when everyone with eyeteeth cut ought to know that principles have departed from politics, now that both parties have been harmonized and organized into agencies of the plutocracy. The Conflict Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings? What is Property? Sir Walter Scott himself, with all his splendid romantic and tragic gifts, often, in Stevenson’s perfectly just phrase, ‘fobs us off with languid and inarticulate twaddle.’ Robert Louis Stevenson If you try to fix a literal meaning on the twaddle that every drunken man talks, you will come to some queer conclusions. The Captain of the Polestar It did not seem twaddle or melodramatic to her—or, for that matter, to him. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise I had meant to refuse, because it would all have to be dull High-Church twaddle. The Certain Hour "There is a limit as to how much of this insignificant twaddle we should allow." Wild Justice Then they stirred, and lifted their heads wearily, and gazed at each other wistfully, dreamily, dazed; then presently began to twaddle to each other in a wandering and childish way. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories "But who says such twaddle as that?" she returned consolingly. The Damnation of Theron Ware "It's shallow twaddle or sheer want to talk about the dignity and beauty of labor under this system," he went on. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Oh! he spoilt his elegant talents in writing German and Italian twaddle with all the rawness of a Yankee. Vivian Grey Your humble servant Albrecht Dürer wishes you all hail, great and worthy honour in the devil's name, so much for the twaddle of which you are so fond. Albert Durer It sounds as if you had been attending society functions and listening to their twaddle. Lo, Michael! They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin Hsi Jen suddenly awoke to the fact that he was beginning to give vent to a lot of twaddle, and speedily, pleading fatigue, she paid no further notice to him. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books A boy after my own heart,—and, in spite of all his twaddle, will make an artist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 She looked at him interrogatively, and he added, very aggressively, "I think it's twaddle!" The Foolish Lovers Now, Mr. President, all this twaddle about the women being in is based upon the pretence that one woman is there now. Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description. Birds of Prey He had no time to waste upon such twaddle as this. Charlotte's Inheritance Sir Athelstone, unable to endure the applause that greeted his rival, abruptly sprang to his feet, his round face red with anger, and shouted: "I say, you know, this is twaddle!" The Second Deluge She was like a volume of unindexed and discursive memoirs, through which he patiently plodded in the hope of finding embedded amid layers of dusty twaddle some precious allusion to the subject of his thought. The Greater Inclination I'm a man of the world, and I can appreciate the exact value of that kind of twaddle. Henry Dunbar A Novel There must be an enormous amount of information in forty odd letters; unless the woman wrote the direst twaddle ever penned by a feminine correspondent. Birds of Prey From what Methodist parson's hypocritical twaddle have you learnt to lay down the law to your poor old father about the sense of right? Charlotte's Inheritance You—Sir Julien Portel, caricatured as the best-dressed man in the House of Commons, member of the most fashionable clubs, brilliant debater, successful politician, future Prime Minister, and all that sort of twaddle. The Mischief Maker The twaddling voice, the characteristic reference to health, were intensely aggravating. From One Generation to Another Why, in comparison, she would have pished at a seraph!—after five years of his twaddle, mark you. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes The sentimental twaddle people talk of the freshness and purity of a mind unsullied by communion with the world is the shallowest nonsense. Birds of Prey She talked a little twaddle about the laws of nature, and a shrewd observer would have seen that she—parrotlike—was repeating the words that some other person had put into her mouth. L'Assommoir That a mind like his could be buried in a corner is mere twaddle, and of a kind that has done great wrong to the dignity of letters. Among My Books First Series 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. Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. The blood trickled slowly down his sleeves without his noticing it, so great was his rage against that bunch of aristocratic ladies in the hospital whose twaddle had deprived him of his reason. Men in War Do you fancy that after a whole column spent in stirring men up to fury, a few twaddling copybook headings about 'the sacred duty of order' will lay the storm again? Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Judas, we will canonize him; For Cant is his hobby and twaddling his bliss; And tho' wise men may pity and wits may despise him, He'll make but the better shop-saint for all this. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Not all the twaddle of the harmonic kitchens would ever help him to find a new harmony that was alive, alive, and not a monstrous birth. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House It is made out of a little lump of tawdry material which says nothing, is, indeed, mere twaddle. Impressions and Comments These symmetrical and twaddling constructions—classical, and neo-classical sonatas and symphonies—exasperated Christophe, who, at that time, was not very sensible of the beauty of order, and vast and well-conceived plans. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Well, if this scribbler could make enough by his twaddling books to live in that style, what might not he, Merton, make? Fan : the story of a young girl's life Is there any man in Newcome, except, perhaps, our twaddling old contemporary the Sentinel, who believes in Sir B. N. any more? The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family "My dear man, he and his affairs ARE such twaddle!" The Awkward Age The child's instinct of selection being vast and cordial,—he will make a grain of true imagination suffuse and glorify a whole acre of twaddle,—-we may with security leave him in that fantastic society. Confessions and Criticisms "A very pious manner of spending his time," Pen said, laughing and thinking that his uncle was falling into the twaddling state. The History of Pendennis He could chat with them and laugh at their senseless twaddle; and so he made an impression. Pan Go on, captain, with your twaddle!—Proceed, my reverend friend, with your smirking commonplaces! The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Now don't stand there and delay me with your twaddle. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans And the more interested I am in the thing itself, the more angry I am with the nonsense they talk about it, and had rather listen to the most humdrum domestic twaddle. Lady John Russell Lesbia, whose faultless features were of the aquiline type, regarded the bard's rhapsody as insufferable twaddle, and began to think Mr. Smithson almost a wit when he made fun of the bard. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The Recorder, an old twaddle, who talked half the time with the accused, and allowed him to make speeches instead of putting questions, and Sir C. Hunter, Sir J. Shaw, and another alderman! A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II December 26th.—I have a second letter from Yeh, which is even more twaddling than the first. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin The lies, twaddles, and contrivances about this affair are innumerable. Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) "Of all the infernal, ridiculous twaddle!" he exclaimed. The Bars of Iron He would strut for hours before any one who would listen to his senseless twaddle and would harangue and discourse on the rights of the people. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story We twaddled a great deal over the speech. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II At the name of Dryden he smiled, and the smile spoke as plainly as a smile could speak, "How the old woman twaddles!" Domestic Manners of the Americans I am insisting upon this point in some astronomical twaddle which I am now printing, and of which I shall soon have to request your acceptance of a copy. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals And all the things that they hold dear—canes, gloves, silk hats, and the newer garments on which fashion makes its twaddle—are within reach of their armless sleeves. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come In the latter, you hope for something at least readable, and you get the most complete, terrible, uninspired twaddle that was ever written on paper. A Prefect's Uncle When you came to the Throne,—and all the wretched versifiers in the kingdom were scribbling twaddle in the way of 'Coronation odes' and medleys, I wrote 'The Song of Freedom' for your glory! Temporal Power Cosmopolitanism is all twaddle, the cosmopolitan is a nonentity—worse than a nonentity; without nationality is no art, nor truth, nor life, nor anything. Rudin For heaven's sake, keep your twaddle to yourselves!" he exclaimed impatiently, "or take my advice, and make for the nearest duck pond. The Battle Ground There is a precious twaddle about 'mysterious Providence.' Barriers Burned Away Do not always be telling your child how wicked he is; what a naughty boy he is; that God will never love him, and all the rest of such twaddle and blatant inanity! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children While Korolenko, who is serious, is hardly known to the editors, my twaddle is being read by all Petersburg. Letters of Anton Chekhov Lady Vincent paid no attention to the innocent twaddle of poor old Katie, though at a less horrible moment it might have served to amuse her. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths O, for God's sake, drop that bib-and-tucker twaddle! At the Sign of the Eagle Go on, Jackson, I will forgive your twaddle about sargeant M'Clure, the stroke of the sun, the trooper's helmet, and the night among the wolves. Nature and Human Nature You will cut short all this twaddle about her great wealth and Western ways and numberless beaux. Miss Gibbie Gault The family, about which so much twaddle is talked, is hateful. The One Woman The three were standing under the electric light at the corner, and the young women instead of appearing annoyed at the heathen's twaddle, seemed to be highly amused. Her Weight in Gold Stop this twaddle and let us elders talk together.—Listen, my dear Jeppe Berg! Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus I'm sick of all such twaddle; I should like to answer all that snivelling with some work of open defiance. The Fat and the Thin The stolid dunce is comparatively quiet; his crass mind works slowly; his vacant face wears an aspect of repose; his talk is merely dull and twaddling. The Recreations of a Country Parson You need not bother me with any silly twaddle about swords and pistols I shall pay no attention to it. Castle Craneycrow Either he expected to fool his present hearer, or else he had become hypnotized by the spell of his own magnificent twaddle— O'Neil could not tell which. The Iron Trail All that kind of thing was trash and twaddle. The Way We Live Now Look at the twaddle men turn out every day in the form of novels alone! Innocent : her fancy and his fact But still, who can help loving the man, occasionally to be met, whose heart is right and whose talk is twaddle? The Recreations of a Country Parson Well, I've heard that it would do great things, but I never took any stock in it; it seemed like so much twaddle to me. Katherine's Sheaves I hate the twaddle talk of love, whether it's about myself or about any one else. The Belton Estate What a world for twaddle it is when common-sense makes us sit up and stare…. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel It was such a comfort to Lady Cashel to have some one to whom she could twaddle! The Kellys and the O'Kellys Bendish: Come, my little heart, my queen, let's not amuse ourselves with twaddle. The Lucky Man Good heavens! why don't they do or say something new and interesting, and not keep twaddling on about art, and music, and poetry, and cosmos? Work: a Story of Experience You know yourself that they are all alike—the same people, the same flowers, the same things to eat, and the same inane twaddle in the shape of talk. Brewster's Millions "Because it's twaddle, nonsense," answer they, shrugging their shoulders; and it is as though they did for a man by hitting him with a stone over the head. Yama: the pit But though she herself might be contented to twaddle with old men, she knew that other girls would not. The Kellys and the O'Kellys They go into society, they make speeches, they write twaddle, they drain their energy, already depleted by creation, in fifty different ways. The Altar Fire "If I can get through life without you, I can surely get through this twaddle: 'ri tum ti tum ti tum ti tum tiddy iddy.'" Love Me Little, Love Me Long An occasion for twaddling had come, and this good soul seized it and twaddled into a man's ear who was fainting on the rack. It Is Never Too Late to Mend I hate all that sort of twaddle about childhood's friends, and you know I do. The Small House at Allington Pshaw! it is a tasteless, insipid plagiarism from Grote; and if I am to be bored with such insufferable twaddle, I will stop my subscription. St. Elmo Instead of twaddle and boredom round somebody or other's samovar, I am going to have honest talk under the chaperonage of an English teapot—my own teapot, which I carry everywhere. The Crown of Life "Not even the worst twaddle about my book?" he suggested lightly, pushing the papers about. Tales of Men and Ghosts The first crucifixion Eden saw he turned as sick as a dog—the first crucifixion Woodcock saw he twaddled in the crucified's ear, left him on the cross, and went on his way well pleased. It Is Never Too Late to Mend I dislike twaddle, as you know, but I don't want to spoil my chances. Our Friend the Charlatan Such twaddle only serves to obscure the great questions at issue. Denzil Quarrier The twaddle which dulness, triviality, and spite have talked about it is not worth notice. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 He kept on pouring out his lamentable twaddle, and hawking it up and down the place till he became a thing of terror. Tales of Men and Ghosts "The conversation is the greatest twaddle I ever saw," said Mr. Malcolm. Mr. Hogarth's Will "As for twaddle," she said, "I shouldn't advise much of it in Mrs. Toplady's hearing." Our Friend the Charlatan Humbug—twaddle—fiddle- dee-dee, made for lazy louts who want jobs and bosses who want power. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Think of all that twaddle about Beatrice 'denying him her most gracious salutation'! The Secret Power Without ever talking twaddle about patriotism, yet in all modesty I will not be wanting where there is something to be done for Hungary. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End What was Dove with his pompous twaddle to him? Maurice Guest He reminded himself that "twaddle" was as little likely to have weight with Miss Bride as with Mrs. Toplady. Our Friend the Charlatan You see how it would be," he said; "as soon as people knew me to be the author of that miserable sentimental twaddle, all respect for the serious labours of my life would be gone. The Chronicles of Clovis But this good creature did go; did relieve Mrs. Harvey; and, bare-headed, suffered himself to be bedewed ten minutes by her tearful twaddle. Christie Johnstone Now Mrs. Woffington was determined that this lady, who she saw was simple, should disgust her husband by talking twaddle before a band of satirists. Peg Woffington If you could see how the ladies dress in this lost hole of a place, if you could hear the twaddle they talk, you would pity me. Jezebel's Daughter The spectacle presented by these men--some of them with grey heads and beards--as they marked time or tramped along singing this childish twaddle, would have been amusing if it had not been disgusting. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists What was the freight per ton, of this sort of worn out twaddle imported from old England? The Eureka Stockade No, no—it is like most interviews, pure twaddle, and valueless. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after Snarl and Soaper conducted the criticism of their day with credit and respectability until a good old age, and died placidly a natural death, like twaddle, sweet or sour. Peg Woffington I went to a suffrage debate in the Legislature last winter; and of all the feeble, vulgar twaddle I ever heard, that was the worst; and those men were our representatives. Jo's Boys The Inca is not allowed to make a speech: he is compelled to take up a screed of flatulent twaddle written by some noodle of a minister and read it aloud. The Inca of Perusalem It was a short but smart speech we had heard elsewhere, he was not fond of 'twaddle,' which I suppose meant 'bosh.' The Eureka Stockade The Major tapped his fingers impatiently at this ill-timed twaddle. For the Term of His Natural Life It is like most interviews, pure twaddle and valueless. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) You never hear me talk about clothes and such twaddle,' said Stuffy, suppressing a yawn, and feeling for another bon-bon wherewith to refresh himself. Jo's Boys I remained there with Mrs. Ambient, though even our exchange of twaddle had run very thin. The Author of Beltraffio What a 'nice creature' she was, 'kept her place,' dressed according to her station, and that sort of twaddle. Rose in Bloom In January he would rescue his Leonardo from this stupefying twaddle. A Room with a View My goodness, what utter twaddle, and what may all this nonsense have signified, pray? The Idiot I look up and watch the eager eye flashing down the page, being, for my part, perfectly contented with my twaddling old volume of "Howel's Letters," or the Gentleman's Magazine. Roundabout Papers I would rather be rude than to listen to twaddle from a man I've known. The Longest Journey "Eh, what twaddle!" said one of them, a thin, stern-looking man. War and Peace Dickens had just written his shallow twaddle about Yankee crudeness and folly. Life of Stephen A. Douglas After supper he heard our twaddle for nearly an hour, and then made this odd entry. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller "I'm sick of all this pious twaddle, and would a thousand-fold rather listen to the music of your voice out under the trees." A Face Illumined Will they throw their arms round your neck, and break forth into twaddle? Put Yourself in His Place There's twaddle here and twaddle there, only that twaddle, the twaddle of the eighteenth century, is nearer to the Russian character than the twaddle of the twentieth century. Virgin Soil Until the moment when she took "the liberty of chipping in," to use her own expression, the amount of twaddle talked had been appalling. They and I Do you think I want to listen to your everlasting twaddle about her? Active Service He hummed a blithe San Salvador Opera Company tune; he grinned, smirked, bowed, pirouetted, twiddled, twaddled, twisted, and tooralooed. Waifs and Strays Part 1 |
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