I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used?. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
What a great deal of "buncombe" the American populace will bear!. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the Week] Reference
That's how "buncombe" came to mean annoying and disingenuous language. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Neither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect for this land of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine that. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete] Reference
"buncombe" when I had his boys & others up for trespassing upon certain of the property — claimed much authority as. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from James B. Mason to R. W. Lassiter, September 3, 1873] Reference
In short, schooling themselves in the high art of buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Spies (All Too Much) Like Us] Reference
Could there be a set point for buncombe produced by economics professors?. From Wordnik.com. [Thermostats or Muscles?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
One wonder though, are their columnists less inclined towards mental buncombe than ours?. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
There is in most of us a strain of buncombe which we exhibit often when others are not looking. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Brace yourselves for more low-fat buncombe 3. January 2006, 23:04 UhrUncategorizedmreades7 comments. From Wordnik.com. [Brace yourselves for more low-fat buncombe | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Seymour, which abounded in short, clear, compact statements, without buncombe or the least equivocation. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
That then reduced itself simply to buncombe, being any kind of ridiculous or pointless or worthless speech. From Wordnik.com. [America In So Many Words] Reference
And, spite of these well-known facts, northern buncombe never tired of assailing "the rebel sympathies" of England!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
"All that buncombe about what history 'placed on our shoulders' sucked the Brits into two wars," he said in The Washington Post. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Superpower] Reference
Will they dutifully parrot the rail authority's buncombe?. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
And the speeches to the extent of about ninety per cent are pure buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [The Hohenzollerns in America] Reference
England never signed, because Castlereagh thought the whole thing buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Mankind] Reference
But as for this theory that all wisdom resides in the people, it's buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Brace yourselves for more low-fat buncombe | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. From Wordnik.com. [Brace yourselves for more low-fat buncombe | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
They committed hari-kari in the end by beginning to believe in their own buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Webster did it supremely well; a smaller man would merely have made buncombe of it. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Page 192 on the other hand by the messiahs of the New Thought, that lavender buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
But there were speeches to be made for buncombe, and they made the best of the seconds. From Wordnik.com. [The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories] Reference
Winner trained by Braime so that Lenehan's version of the business was all pure buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The only thing being "stirred" here was the Bolshevik bouillabaisse of buncombe and blather. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
The Internet is chock-full of websites that carry misinformation, crackpot notions, and buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [History News Network] Reference
This gave demagogues in the legislature, anxious to make a reputation in buncombe, a great chance. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference
It is an appeal from this House to the outside constituencies that we know by the name of buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
This is the surest way to fetch him; he never fails to swell out his chest when he hears that buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind] Reference
From their experiences with the electors they had good reason to believe that this buncombe would go down. From Wordnik.com. [Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics] Reference
Page 187 that no attention must be paid to it and that his name was only signed to the letter for buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Douglass The Orator. Containing an Account of His Life; His Eminent Public Services; His Brilliant Career as Orator; Selections from His Speeches and Writings] Reference
Top-sergeant, during the war, suffered an interesting philological change, like that already noticed in buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11. American Slang. 2. War Slang] Reference
I was sorry afterwards that I had spoken of the majesty of the Assembly's wisdom, because it savoured of buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [The Fixed Period] Reference
No wonder he hates what he calls destructive criticism, sometimes called by free spirits the elimination of buncombe. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
A buncombe democracy has insisted that it is not essential to look back, but simply to place stress upon our present force and consequence. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
When he died he left a modest fortune made in spouting buncombe; and yet -- "The Professor held out a hand in appeal. From Wordnik.com. [David Malcolm] Reference
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