319, n. 1.
BOW-WOW. 'Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary
were it not for his bow-wow way' (Lord Pembroke), ii. 326, n. 5.
BRAINS. 'I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.
BRANDY. 'He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy,' iii. 381;
'Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him,'
iii. 381.
BRASED. 'He advanced with his front already brased,' v. 388, n. 2.
BRAVERY. 'Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing,' iv. 395.
BRENTFORD. 'Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?' iv. 186.
BRIARS. 'I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and
thorns still hang about me' (Marshall), iii. 313.
BRIBED. 'You may be bribed by flattery,' v. 306.
BRINK. 'Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,'
ii. 241, n. 1.
BROTHEL. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a
brothel,' iii. 25.
BRUTALITY. 'Abating his brutality he was a very good master,'
ii. 146.
BUCKRAM'D. 'It may have been written by Walpole and _buckram'd_
by Mason' (T. Warton), iv. 315.
BULL. 'If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, "Here am
I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater
felicity?"' ii. 228.
BULL'S HIDE. 'This sum will...get you a strong lasting coat supposing
it to be made of good bull's hide,' i. 440.
BURDEN. 'Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of
himself,' v.
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