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  • “Page 46 gradually came into a knowledge of the reserves behind The Major's buoyant optimism and occasional gasconnade.”

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography,

  • “The water is so cool and refreshing after the fieriness; it gives, without the gasconnade, the emotion Keats experienced when he peppered his mouth with cayenne for the greater enjoyment of iced claret.”

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia

  • “I'll swear he told me so, and that they were long letters too; but I told him it was a gasconnade of yours, etc.”

    The Journal to Stella

  • “Probably his dextrous disclosure of the severe terms which the Directory ordered him to extort was far more effective than this boisterous _gasconnade_.”

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)

  • “It was thus and from these beginnings that the casual acquaintance between us ripened into intimacy, and that I gradually came into a knowledge of the reserves behind The Major's buoyant optimism and occasional gasconnade.”

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography

  • “The spirit of empty gasconnade had been succeeded by one more befitting the time and circumstances.”

    A Girl of the Commune

  • “May 29th 1804 Set out from the mouth of the gasconnade, where we took obsevn &c. left a Perogue for a man lost in the woods, Course N. 54 W 2”

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

  • “-- I'll swear he told me so, and that they were long letters too; but I told him it was a gasconnade of yours, etc.”

    The Journal to Stella

  • “I’ll swear he told me so, and that they were long letters too; but I told him it was a gasconnade of yours, etc.”

    The Journal to Stella

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