Word: humbugs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There is an indescribable pleasure in being appreciated, and we are always a bienvenu at home. Nobody there knows that we are a humbug, or, if anybody does, he never says so. But, after all, the pleasure of a trip home is not wholly unalloyed...
Behold us at sea. The second day out the great American Humbug broke her screw, and also sprang a leak, because one of the side plates had not been properly fastened...
...last chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief purposes of a higher education...
...busy, and thoughtful life. There is a picture in Punch of a little girl, discovering that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, exclaiming that the world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble...