To heap up that incessant iteration about thieves, murderers, housebreakers, assassins, bandits, bravoes with their hands dripping with blood and their maw gorged with property, desperate paramours, Bombastical players, the refuse and rejected offal of strolling theatres, bloody buffoons, bloody felons-all this was as unjust to hundreds of disinterested, honest, and patriotic men who were then earnestly striving to restore a true order and solid citizenship in France, as the foul-mouthed scurrility of an Irish Orangeman is unjust to millions of devout Catholics.
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Her social training and natural perception raised her to a height to measure the Bombastical and distinguish it from the eloquently lofty.
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Sir Abraham Elton next came forward, and addressed the meeting in one of the most Bombastical and ridiculous speeches that I ever heard.
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