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John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting his version of the battle of Balaclava with fruit and cutlery at the dinner table.

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John Bull, feeling that John Bullish Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was going to win the election anyhow, puffed his pipe at home while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked.

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He had aged, of course, but Winston Churchill seemed hardly a shade less pink-cheeked, rocklike and John Bullish than when he spoke before the House and Senate during World War II.

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Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency.

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In politics and religion this curious and very John Bullish unreason is still more apparent.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George