humbuggeries

Of the artifice of humbuggeries that Givens's lawyer placed in USA Today, three main ones need comment: He suggests that a "hidden motive" for my coverage of his fraud trial is pique at a lawsuit he filed against me for an earlier column I wrote.

Still Too Good To Be True 2008

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it.

Life on the Mississippi 1870