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21 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!"— filed under Animals-Dog
Donkey. Janet! Donkeys!— filed under Animals-Dog
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips, -especially prunes and prism.— filed under Ceremony
Miss Rol. He's tough, ma'am, -tough is J. B.; tough and de-vilish sly.— filed under Character
When I got up to the Peacock-where I found everybody drinking hot punch in selfpreservation.— filed under Drinking
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. * * * * * * Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.— filed under Flowers-Ivy
"Wal'r, my boy," replied the captain; "in Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the fol- : 'May we never want a friend in need , nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."— filed under Friends
Seed-bill, Feb. 16, 1887. I am the State. DULAURE attributes this saying to LOUIS XIV. in his History of Paris, 1863. P. 387. Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it.— filed under Government
SOUTHEY'S Devil's Walk.) I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going *** let the other be where he may.— filed under Humility
'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.— filed under Humility
My life is one demd horrid grind.— filed under Life
Nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing manner; and nobody had any business to try. Yet she never seemed to know it was her manner at all. That was the best of it.— filed under Manners
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
Introduction. "Gracious heavens!" he cries out, leaping up and catching hold of his hair, "what's this? Print!"— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
If it's near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury have retired and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: "Well, gentlemen, what do we say? Plaintiff, defendant, gentlemen? I rather think so far as I am concerned, gentlemen-I say I rather think-but don't let that influence you-I rather think the plaintiff's the man." Upon this two or three other men are sure to say they think so too-as of course they do; and then they get on very unanimously and comfortably.— filed under Occupations-Law
I know'd what 'ud come o' this here mode o' doin' business. Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!— filed under Occupations-Law
Barkis is willin'! ee.— filed under Proverbs
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!— filed under Quality
He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.— filed under Sense
In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.— filed under Smiles
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.— filed under Wisdom