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Exaggeration Bunyon, Paul legendary giant, hero of tall tales of the logging camps. [Am. Folklore: The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyon] trivial cause of a great quarrel. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 336] (1720–1797) soldier, adventurer, and teller of tall tales. [Ger. Hist.: EB, VII: 99] New York street; home of advertising companies. [Am. Culture: Misc.] |
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| Her daughter made her no reply, only in her heart she thought that one could not talk about exaggeration where Christianity was concerned. We got them in the American editions in payment for printing the publisher's prospectus, and their arrival was an excitement, a joy, and a satisfaction with me, which I could not now describe without having to accuse myself of exaggeration. As the story of 'Agnes Grey' was accused of extravagant over-colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggeration, so, in the present work, I find myself censured for depicting CON AMORE, with 'a morbid love of the coarse, if not of the brutal,' those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me to describe. |
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