A poor degenerate devil who scribbles such stuff, and an imbecile reader who follows histwaddle like passing clouds, are simply to be pitied.
But anyone who demands of words that they should be the media of definite thoughts, will perceive in the face of this twaddle that the author was not thinking anything at all when he wrote, although he was dreaming of many things.
Was it all quackery and cant, without any redeeming note of sacrifice and truth and valor; and would all this fiery twaddle die out presently in smoke and dumbness?
Again, he repeats the unmeaning, silly twaddle which we hear without ceasing from writers of the same sort, that Protestant missionaries make real Christians, Catholic missionaries only nominal ones.
As regards the whole moral twaddle of people about one another, it is time to be disgusted with it!
Her rude hand had touched the sorest place in Zina's heart, but her crude and absurd sentimental twaddle had not blinded her daughter.
His Imperial Highness, Eminence and Cardinal" would unhesitatingly bear witness to his morality, and, as to the twaddle about Olmuetz, the Archduke would probably spend not more than six weeks of the year there.
You also seem to accept as my views what I repeat to you as the opinions of others as, for instance, the word of Haslinger and the twaddle of Frau Passy.
You see, the useful things in the newspapers, for a farmer, are the price of grain and the announcement of the fairs; the rest is all twaddle for me.
Jost, written whole columns of vapid twaddle about the 'Royal smile' and the 'Royal favour' till the outside public had sickened at every stroke of his flunkey pen?
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.
Sleep is good for the body, and twaddle is not good for the soul.
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.
Dare say I shall have to waste half an hour listening to centennial twaddlebefore I get what I want!
Douglas--The Twaddleabout Puritans and Cavaliers--Andrew Johnson and John C.
We all resolved to go to sleep, and Twaddlesaid that he slept like a top, in the heat of action, at Shiloh.
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.
I grieve to say that it contained such twaddle about love, together with other intangible and inappreciable articles, that I came very near to discharging you on the spot.
Heavens, when I think that I endured this twaddlefor one whole year I-- GIL.
I'll even allow your twaddle about planes does mean something to you, because honestly you seem deficient--degenerate as far as your flesh is concerned.
With the ease of an artist Cherry improvised this twaddle on the spot, and the girl, all ears and eyes, expressed great thankfulness for such a potent charm, bid the gammer farewell, and hastened away.
