Horace Walpole
Author and politician, 1717-1797
Cited as Walpole. — 45 quotations
Culpatory
Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense.
Delineate
Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy.
Disculpate
I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself.
Dispatch
Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets.
Ferment
the nation is in a ferment.
firework
Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework.
Fling
His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.
Foot
As to his being on the foot of a servant.
Fry
We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.
Galimatias
Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries.
Gloom
A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.
Goodish
Goodish pictures in rich frames.
Haggle
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Hash
I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
Inarticulate
The poor earl, who is inarticulate with palsy.
Junket
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
Like
He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
Lot
I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I.
Lurch
Lady ---- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
Mobocracy
It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy.
Oversee
Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin.
Pun
A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay.
Purparty
I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.
Quickset
Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges.
Retrenchment
The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that mean to replace your fortune as far as I can.
Ridotto
There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
Romance
A very brave officer, but apt to romance.
Rubicundity
To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs.
Rummage
He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Run
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.
Scrub
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
Serpentize
The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive.
Shackle
Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object.
Steal
Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea.
Succedaneum
In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope.
Tally
Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine.
Tell
I am at the end of my tell.
Tester
No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
Treillage
I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow.
Turnery
Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery.
Unhinge
His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind.
Vapor
We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them.
Water gall
False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow.
Whip
He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
Whisk
I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.