rigmarole

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Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could tell us a good story now if he would only write what the Almighty intended him to write, instead of gloomy rigmaroles about suffering Princesses in Welsh caves.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Six months back a man comes over from Surreywards, a farm he calls Dipwell, and asks after you, Harry; rigmaroles about a handsome lass gone off... some scoundrel!

From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete by Meredith, George

This gift he now exercised, while putting together a collection of panegyrics on the patrician Veniero's retirement from the rectorship of Bergamo, to vent one of his commonplace terza-rima rigmaroles against my Tartana degli influssi.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

Six months back a man comes over from Surreywards, a farm he calls Dipwell, and asks after you, Harry; rigmaroles about a handsome lass gone off . . . some scoundrel !

From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5 by Meredith, George