He coveted a legitimate triumph-he, the most arrant of cowards.

"You talk the most arrant nonsense."

The Monkey-man bored me, however; he assumed, on the strength of his five digits, that he was my equal, and was for ever jabbering at me,--jabbering the most arrant nonsense.

"I think it's the most arrant piece of political trickery," said Janet Hews, 69, a retired job services worker for the state.

'This is the most arrant, selfish, unpatriotic swindle I ever heard of,' he said thickly.

And seeking final answers in terms of words is one of the most arrant pieces of nonsense that come from such a confusion.

It's truly the most arrant taradiddle I ever did hear.

"And yet it's a strange paradox that if one lightens a Radanite's wagons while freighting a Radanite's purse, he often finds himself in receipt of the most arrant gossip imaginable."

Hobson winced visibly, but before he could reply she continued: "You are talking the most arrant foolishness.

Knowing that Hans always had a reason for what he said, even when he seemed to be talking the most arrant nonsense, I took his advice.