358, n. 1.
BURROW. 'The chief advantage of London is that a man is always so
near his burrow' (Meynell), iii. 379.
BURSTS. 'He has no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions,' iv. 27
BUSINESS. 'It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by
one man, if he will make a business of it' (Franklin), iv. 97 n. 3.
Buz. 'That is the buz of the theatre,' v. 46.
C.
CABBAGE. 'Such a woman might be cut out of a cabbage, if there was
a skilful artificer,' v. 231.
CALCULATE. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and
when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.
CANDLES. 'A man who has candles may sit up too late,' ii. 188.
CANNISTER. 'An author hunted with a cannister at his tail,' iii. 320.
CANT. 'Clear your mind of cant,' iv. 221;
'Don't cant in defence of savages,' iv. 308;
'Vulgar cant against the manners of the great,' iii. 353.
CANTING. 'A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the
last,' iii. 270.
CAPITULATE. 'I will be conquered, I will not capitulate,' iv. 374.
CARD-PLAYING. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing,'
iii. 23;
'It generates kindness and consolidates society,' v. 404.
CARROT. 'You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot,' ii.
439.
CAT. 'She was a speaking cat,' iii. 246.
CATCH. 'God will not take a catch of him,' iv. 225.
CATCHING. 'That man spent his life in catching at an object which he
had not power to grasp,' ii.
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