22 Words to use with nonsenses

But older children much enjoy nonsense verses by Lewis Carroll or by Lear, and "John Gilpin" is another favourite.

They had all been talking among themselves while he was eating; but he did not know that savages had a language of their own different from ours, and so thought that they had only been amusing themselves with a kind of nonsense talk, which meant nothing.

BAKER, MARGARET. Tinker tailor and other nonsense tales.

"That shows what nonsense stories are," he said.

She carried him to bed and sang him a nonsense song.

The "poems" were nonsense rhymes, in the writing of which Miss Mitchell was an adept.

Five vaudeville monologues, with nonsense poetry and vaudeville fillers.

John Scott's second a nonsense letter to his Chatsworth his imitation of Lamb seeking a publisher Paul, C. Kegan, and the "Theses" "Pawnbroker's Daughter, The" Payne, John Howard.

O when the spirit is sore fretted, even tired to sickness of the janglings, and nonsense-noises of the world, what a balm and a solace it is, to go and seat yourself, for a quiet half hour, upon some undisputed corner of a bench, among the gentle Quakers!

Or from the pulpit by the hour He weekly floods of nonsense pour; We find (the intent of nature foiled) A tailor or a butcher spoiled.

Did not the tender nonsense strike, Contempt and scorn might soon dislike.

I hope that I shall never live to see the day when there is any such nonsense tagging to my label as they string on to theirs.

"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

The dramatist Ravenscroft wrote an epilogue to Sertorius, in which he says that Our Poet to learnèd critics does submit, But scorns those little vermin of the pit, Who noise and nonsense vent instead of wit, and no doubt Bancroft had aims more professional than those of the professional playwrights themselves.

" "He's only a" "He's rewarding the way you scrimped to pay his expenses for nonsense clubs and societies by asking you to do it another four years.

With such encouragement, nonsense wrestles for the seat of learning, exploded errors are republished as novelties, original writers are plundered by dunces, and men that understand nothing well, profess to teach all sciences!

If there should spling up more men now, having the whole wisdom, science, and expelience of the past at their hand, and they made an allangement among themselves that the first man who tlied to take more than he could work for should be killed, and sent to dleam a nonsense-dleam, the question could never again alise!'

They lie in a deep drowse, and dream a nonsense-dream.'

For my part, I never did give in to all the nonsense folk talked about his being a changeling or at best a limb of Satan.

" Said he, "Before this quaint mood fails, We'll sit and weave a nonsense hymn," R.

She ain't go'n' a' stan' no nonsense lahk that, seh; she ain't go'n a' have no lawyeh mixin' up in huh private mattehs.

But she held him fast and kept on talking her nonsense language to him, until becoming vexed he caught hold of her hair and pulled it.

22 Words to use with  nonsenses