"Balderdash" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... words, Sedgwick," said Mr. Thompson approvingly. "The word I had on my tongue was—balderdash. But your thought was happier. Balderdash is a vague and shapeless term. It conjures up no definite vision. But ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... because the words of this text appear to be so carelessly put together, as to make nothing but jargon, or a sort of scholastic balderdash. But, according to Critical Note 8th, "To jumble together words without care for the sense, is an unpardonable negligence, and an abuse of the human understanding." I think the learned author should rather have said: "There are two numbers ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... the sea if you go on talking balderdash," said Bob. "Now, look here, you hain't got nothin' to do, ...
— The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Balderdash, Bill Davis! What have you or me to do wi' feelins o' that sort? Countryman, indeed! A fine country, as starves ten millions o' the like o' us two; an' if we try to take what by nateral right's our own, ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid |
