213.
WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,'
v. 34;
'Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
'Water is the same everywhere,' v. 54.
WAY. 'Sir, you don't see your way through that question,' ii. 122.
WEAK-NERVED. 'I know no such weak-nerved people,' iv. 280.
WEALTH. 'The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better,'
ii. 226.
WEAR. 'No man's face has had more wear and tear,' ii. 410.
WEIGHT. 'He runs about with little weight upon his mind,' ii. 375.
WELL. 'They are well when they are not ill' (Temple), iv. 379.
WENCH. 'Madam, she is an odious wench,' iii. 298.
WHALES. 'If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk
like whales' (Goldsmith), ii. 231.
WHELP. 'It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things,' iii.
51.
WHIG. 'A Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so' (Horace Walpole),
iv. 117, n. 5;
'He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he
was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2;
'He was a Whig who pretended to be honest,' v. 339;
'I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress, but I hate to see
a Whig in a parson's gown,' v. 255;
'Sir, he is a cursed Whig, a bottomless Whig, as they all are now,'
iv. 223;
'Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig,' ii. 170;
'The first Whig was the Devil,' iii. 326;
'Though a Whig, he had humanity' (A. Campbell), v.
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