Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• Here we remained four days, on account of a palaver which was held on the following occasion.
• These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.
• Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair.
• Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
• This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.
• I have no palaver with him.
• “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”
• to hold a palaver