They were quaintly put: "There's a lot of balderdash about another world, bhoy.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
All that anybody can hope to do is to make his living out of it; but as to improving it,-raising the intellectual standard of the people, and all that balderdash we hear of,-you might just as well tell me that there was an Act of Parliament to make everybody in Connaught six feet high.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
"The whole thing is balderdash," said the Major with solemnity.
"Amusement Only"
Richard Marsh