"Stuff and nonsense" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is what she thought,) "why don't he speak out, and not go beating about the bush in this ridiculous manner! What's he afraid of? Refusal, indeed! Stuff and nonsense!" ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... stuff and nonsense," said Mysie. "I have had a great deal of talk with Miss Prescott. She loves all the same books that we do. She is going to have G. F. S. and Mothers' Union, and all at poor Arnscombe, and she told me to ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... incident once more shows that, in the discovery of crimes, there is something much more valuable than the examination of facts, than observations, deductions, inferences and all that stuff and nonsense. What I mean is, as I said before, intuition ... intuition and intelligence.... And Arsene Lupin, without boasting, is deficient in neither one ...
— The Confessions of Arsene Lupin • Maurice Leblanc
... PUNCHINELLO has noticed (with infinite scorn and contempt) all the stuff and nonsense published in the newspapers about registry and inspection, about citizenship and twenty-one years of age, and other games and devices of that soft sort. The qualifications of a voter may be stated with severe ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 2., No. 32, November 5, 1870 • Various
... are telling the child, Emmie?' asked the Doctor, who had very sharp ears. 'Gout! stuff and nonsense! I never was ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
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