Some Bulls.
A certain .preacher in the Midlands recently wound up. an eloquent appeal to his congregation thus:
"And now, ray brethren, let tis take courage, and, having burned our ship, let us launch out boldly into the deep." This "bull" was not uttered by an Irishman, as might be supposed, and it clearly points to the fact that phrases of the class called "bulls" are not all the product of the Irish brain. - Plenty of instances migflt be given as proof of this. A novel that was crowned by the French Academy as possessed of unusual merit contained a sentence of which the following is a translation : —
"It was midnight. A man who lay in ambush listened to their conversation ; but suddenly a dense, 3ark cloud passed in front of the moon, and prevented him from. Bearing more."
Another phrase, written in downright seriousness by a master of French criticism, runs something like this: "It was one of those duels in which one of the blades literally buries itself in tho heart of the other."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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176Some Bulls. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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