" Spurred on partly by the increased intensity of the cold, partly by the Colonel's nonsense about the way they did it "down South," Mac roused himself, and turned out a better piece of masonry for the Big Cabin than he had thought necessary for his own.

I hope you will understand by the nonsense of this letter that I am not melancholy at the thoughts of thy coming; I thought it necessary to add this, because you love precision.

"There is no one to write and tell my stories and troubles and nonsense to.

ly; the men a girl first knows are young long after she has reached middle-ageyes, they go on dancing cotillions and talking nonsense in the garden, long after she has taken to common-sense shoes.

Folly is more engrossing; for we could prove from the present Elegy that it is possible to write two sentences of pure nonsense out of three.

"It is quite refreshing to find that a big-wig like you can talk just as much nonsense as a little-wig like me," she said; "but you don't know, for all that, what the silence and monotony of life here can be.

Recapitulating this farrago of nonsense on p. 188, he adds a new difficulty which ought to make him pause in his wild career.

Sir John BARNARD replied:Sir, I have always heard it represented as an instance of integrity, when the tongue and heart move in concert, when the words are representations of the sentiments; and have, therefore, hitherto, endeavoured to explain my arguments with perspicuity, and impress my sentiments with force; I have thought it hypocrisy to treat stupidity with reverence, or to honour nonsense with the ceremony of a confutation.

He never had endured any nonsense from Piers, and, by Gad, he never would!

My ambition is not at present higher than to write nonsense for the playhouses, to eke out a something contracted income.

We regret that some kindor, as Mr. Moxon would have thought it, unkindcritic, did not, on the appearance of this first volume, confirm his own misgivings that he had been all this time, like the man in the farce, talking not only prose, but nonsense into the bargain: this disagreeable information the pretension of his recent publication obliges us to convey to him.

"No National Bank nonsense at my tomb!" said she; "no grimed and greasy currency for my undertaker!

I wish the bonnie girl were here;how we would talk nonsense by the hour together, just to keep our tongues in practice, and Madge would hunt down an idea through all its turnings and windings, as if it were a hare, and she a dog in chase of it!

He talked a great deal of idle nonsense against Augustus and was guilty of many sly reprehensible actions.

Mother is very stern and says that all this nonsense between Arthur and myself must stop.

He was a boss shepherd, you bet, and he didn't stand for any church rows or such like nonsense among his sheep.

"And remember," said the O.C. sharply, "you will stand no nonsense over this work.

" Only in a house of habitually inattentive men could any one talk such nonsense without reproof, but I look in vain through Hansard's record of this debate for a single contemptuous reference to Mr. Chamberlain's obtuseness.

Eliot said Colin would be a professional when he grew up, but his mother said he should be nothing of the sort and Eliot wasn't to go putting nonsense like that into his head.

He kept on with his nonsense behind my back, talking to himself, and giving a slap now and then.

If wiser men than Myron Sharpe never uttered more unpardonable nonsense under similar circumstances, cast your stones at him.

And we do not in the least seem to realize that for an Englishman to go on talking wicked nonsense across the dinner table and making one of the little rivulets of bad temper and prejudice which forms the mighty river drowning sane judgment is to do the England of our dreams a service as ill (in reality far more mischievous) as though the plans of fortresses were sold to Germany.

Coming home, often after midnight, with my drunken father talking maudlin conceited nonsense beside me, I developed curious ideas on the fifth commandment.