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I wonder you don't pray the ground to open up and swallow you I consider, sir, an apology from you to our host and hostess absolutely necessary, and to be made without any delay I'll apologize, Wilks, for the deipnosophist part of it, but I'll be jiggered if I'll be responsible for your nasty gastronomy That means that you are going to put all the onus of this hideous and cruel misunderstanding on my shoulders, when I explained your expression in charity to all parties, and to help you out Help me out, is it?— Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
"The very uncommon word deipnosophist, hardly an English word at all, when employed at the present day, always means a supper philosopher, one who talks learnedly at supper, either about cookery or about other things I see it very clearly now.— Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
An Italian deipnosophist is unlikely to get a nose-a-fist ..— Latest Articles
The One reads the teleprompter well, but a deipnosophist he ain't.— Latest Articles
While us non-deipnosophist went for a beer.— Latest Articles
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