166.
SHOT. 'He is afraid of being shot getting _into_ a house, or hanged
when he has got _out_ of it,' iv. 127.
SICK. 'Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of
both,' iii. 57;
'To a sick man what is the public?' iv. 260, n. 2.
SIEVE. 'Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding.
It is stopping one hole in a sieve,' iii. 300.
SINNING. 'The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning'
(Dr. Barrowby), iv. 292.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. 'Let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky.
But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.
SLIGHT. 'If it is a slight man and a slight thing you may [laugh at
a man to his face], for you take nothing valuable from him,' iii. 338.
SLUT. 'She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and
thief,' iv. 103.
SMALL. 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan),
ii. 323.
SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.
SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as
he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word
of truth out of him,' ii. 188.
SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out
of it,' v. 178.
SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
SOFT. 'Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out
of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,'
iv.
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