To little Paul Kegworthy the clotted nonsense was a revelation from on high.

I wasn't there, but a man who was told me that he never heard such clotted nonsense.

This is of the same calibre as the clotted nonsense about Poe composing when intoxicated or Liszt playing after champagne.

"Pasht," I said politely in French, in reply to this clotted nonsense, "was a great divinity.