| 单词 | buncombe |
| 例句 | Indeed, with Washington today having become a carnival of buncombe so sublimely preposterous that even that great journalistic iconoclast H.L. Not so great wars — theirs and ours 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Their buncombe never ceases to amaze and appall. Florida Governor Signs Gun Limits Into Law, Breaking With the N.R.A. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Simple farm workers in the main, they dismiss talk of radiation danger as pseudo-scientific buncombe. What it was like to live in Chernobyl's shadow in 1992 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Before they sat down Mr. Kerry made the ritual condemnation of the assault on the Jews, composed of equal parts blarney and buncombe, and bravely urged an end to “all incitement and violence.” WESLEY PRUDEN: Lies in the Middle East 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Had that fainting spell been buncombe for his benefit as well as Florence's? The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z It seems to me, therefore, that in spite of all the jokes about talking for buncombe, the talk for Buncombe has not been half tall enough yet. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z To be sure, there is always the danger of affectation, and the concluding sentences of Mr. Yeats's dedicatory letter to "AE" are pretty close to buncombe. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The returning legislators were welcomed with public dinners and the effervescent buncombe of local orators. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z Nobody in the Philippines to-day, among the Americans, considers talk about independence as anything other than political buncombe very hampering to their work. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z They for the most part avoid buncombe, which would be difficult to translate into Acts of Parliament. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z It was a tiresome task to sit for hours listening to buncombe speeches, and drawing magic squares and circles to while away the time. The True Benjamin Franklin It was the occasion of much political chat and buncombe, in which the Whig party and Jackson alike were, strangely enough, lauded to the skies. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z This is clearly apparent from President Roosevelt’s message to Congress of December, 1905.20 You do not find any buncombe about “non-Christian tribes” in that message. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Bunkum or buncombe, a speech made solely to please a constituency; talk for talking's sake, and in an inflated style. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The tale must be lies,—pure, unvarnished buncombe, in the language of the vulgar. The Gay Adventure A Romance After all, there's a lot of buncombe about it. Making Money Why, the most sickening thing about this war, Hunt, isn't the loss of life—that may be a benefit to us all in the end; no sir, it's the moral buncombe it's let loose! The Book of Susan A Novel Everybody knew this was buncombe, the colonel being extremely unpopular in civilian circles, and they smiled incredulously. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day The advocates of reciprocity denounced these arguments as the sheerest buncombe. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time She knew that he talked what she called patriotic buncombe. The Landleaguers Yet patriotism had a seamy reverse side of political buncombe. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways It is, however, very certain that he gave them no buncombe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 This is about the finest piece of Yankee buncombe extant. Arrows of Freethought He had been smiling until he believed his eye-teeth were wearing thin from exposure, but it seemed the one thing that had a grain in it among all the buncombe and bluff. The Duke Of Chimney Butte All of the nice talk about "fleeing from southern oppression," and going where "equal rights and social privileges" await them is pure buncombe. Negro Migration during the War Here was assurance there would be no buncombe from him. The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women Both the upper and the lower-enterprises, however, remained for many years after their inception in a quiescent state, serving simply as topics of newspaper discussion, or of buncombe addresses from local rostrums. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 It is an appeal from this House to the outside constituencies that we know by the name of buncombe. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II What is the origin of the term “buncombe” as popularly used? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader I was sorry afterwards that I had spoken of the majesty of the Assembly's wisdom, because it savoured of buncombe. The Fixed Period A buncombe democracy has insisted that it is not essential to look back, but simply to place stress upon our present force and consequence. The Jucklins A Novel This is the surest way to fetch him; he never fails to swell out his chest when he hears that buncombe. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind The special train, with its crowd of overstimulated enthusiasts, the throngs at the stations, the brass bands, bunting, and buncombe all jarred upon me. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic How many men are called great because they succeed in talking buncombe and selling rubbish! David Malcolm And, spite of these well-known facts, northern buncombe never tired of assailing "the rebel sympathies" of England! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement. Forty-Six Years in the Army There is in most of us a strain of buncombe which we exhibit often when others are not looking. The Masques of Ottawa When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody. A History of American Christianity As a sort of undercurrent to the narrative it introduces satiric bits about the buncombe of radio broadcasting. The Ghost of Jerry Bundler While the new visitors crowded about, asking questions and offering remarks, the party that Hennessy was guiding stepped into the background, secretly enjoying the guide's buncombe. The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep That is sheer buncombe carefully fostered by a very efficient corps of Japanese propagandists. The Pride of Palomar But there were speeches to be made for buncombe, and they made the best of the seconds. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories In the stress of that terrible fight there was no room for buncombe and verbiage, such as the newspapers and stump-speakers used to dole out in ante bellum days. Initial Studies in American Letters From their experiences with the electors they had good reason to believe that this buncombe would go down. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics "The people expect startling things ... and, as the winds of genius blow where they list—when they refuse to blow in the direction required, divine is the art of buncombe," he jested. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative "Diplomacy is all bluff, bluster, buncombe, and bullying; the degrees of refinement of the aforesaid bluff, et cetera, depending on the occasions, and the particular parties involved in the particular business." The Cab of the Sleeping Horse The discourse, hollow, insincere, half-blasphemous, a buncombe bit of advertising as it was, nevertheless contained the germ of an essential truth for which Bob had been searching. The Rules of the Game Why Mencken eschews the theatre; scents, sweatshop size, buncombe keep Baltimore sage from theatre. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June His melancholy gradually gave way to an ungovernable fury against those people in the city who had given him all that buncombe and talked him into heaven knows what. Men in War I used to make kites and crossbows and darts and puzzle people with the trick of the buncombe blocks. My Boyhood That conviction grows as self-criticism increases, and makes us conscious of buncombe, contemptuous of ourselves when we employ it, and on guard to detect it. Public Opinion From this source we get "dark horse," "the gray mare is the better horse," "barrel of money," "buncombe," "gerrymander," "scalawag," "henchman," "logrolling," "pulling the wires," "taking the stump," "machine," "slate," etc. How to Speak and Write Correctly It was awful humbug that the commandant reeled off to his silent audience—hypocrisy garbed in paternal phrases, and interlarded with buncombe about Germany's mission to bring happiness to subject peoples. The Ivory Trail And the speeches to the extent of about ninety per cent are pure buncombe. The Hohenzollerns in America I'm taking care of you now, and I'll see that you soon get home and to Grays', too; that's all buncombe. A Daughter of the Land No wonder he hates what he calls destructive criticism, sometimes called by free spirits the elimination of buncombe. Public Opinion This gave demagogues in the legislature, anxious to make a reputation in buncombe, a great chance. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |
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