That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,
[…] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe
A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

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