twaddle

Then the jury'll twaddle and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they'll fetch in a verdict that he got shot or stuck or busted over the head with something, and come to his death by the inspiration of God.

"Eh, what twaddle!" said one of them, a thin, stern-looking man.

Shallow twaddle, that, if it were addressed to you over a dinner-table, you would think 'Does the man take me for a fool?'"

Who taught us that drawing-room twaddle? Call on your grandmother!

"My goodness, what utter twaddle, and what may all this nonsense have signified, pray?

"Ah, but her twaddle isn't half as bad as the chaffing I get.

"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."

The London public won't stand that sort of blithering twaddle.'

I have something more important to do than to listen to such twaddle."

I have put in this chapter on fighting of malice prepense, partly because I want to give you a true picture of what everyday school life was in my time, and not a kid-glove and go-to- meeting-coat picture, and partly because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists nowadays.

"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.

I have heard some of them talk vigorous sense--yea, I have been present at polyglot discussions in the old, oak-lined dining-room at Hunsden Wood, where a singular insight was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despotisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard much twaddle, enounced chiefly in French and Deutsch, but let that pass.