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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, 1921

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 1919

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 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

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) John Holland Rose 1898

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 (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

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 Henry Watterson 1880

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

A Girl of the Commune 1867

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 Meriwether Lewis 1791

-- 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 Jonathan Swift 1706

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 2003