BLOOM. 'It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been
seen before by anybody,' i. 185.
BLUNT. 'There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion' (Sir
M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.
BOARDS. 'The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon _boards_'
(Garrick), ii. 465.
BOLDER. 'Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never
were brought together,' iv. 13.
_Bon-mot_. 'It is not every man that can carry a _bon-mot_'
(Fitzherbert), ii. 350.
BOOK. 'It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is
concealed behind the door,' i. 396;
'You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have
entertainment from a book,' iii. 385;
'Read diligently the great book of mankind,' i. 464;
'The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,'
iv. 8, n. 3;
'The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more
pain than pleasure in it,' iv. 218;
'It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much
as his book will hold,' ii. 237.
BOOKSELLER. 'An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,'
iii. 434.
BORN. 'I know that he was born; no matter where,' v. 399.
BOTANIST. 'Should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn
myself into a reptile,' i. 377, n. 2.
BOTTOM. 'A bottom of good sense,' iv. 99.
BOUNCING. 'It is the mere bouncing of a school-boy,' ii. 210.
BOUND. 'Not in a _bound_ book,' iii.
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