Jeffrey
Cited as Jeffrey. — 41 quotations
Akin
The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character.
Argument
The abstract or argument of the piece.
Blench
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.
Bluntly
Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations.
Cast
She was cast to be hanged.
Caveat
We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion.
Chary
His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame.
Crazy
They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Dandle
The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.
Delict
Every regulation of the civil code necessarily implies a delict in the event of its violation.
Dissert
We have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary.
Dissuasory
This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories.
Encharge
His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with.
Equivocal
For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes.
Flitting
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away.
Forte
The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers.
Frisky
He is too frisky for an old man.
Illapse
They sit silent . . . waiting for an illapse of the spirit.
Incarnation
She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
Luscious
He had a tedious, luscious way of talking.
Occultation
The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation.
Plethora
He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Pounce
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
Prelude
We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
Prettiness
A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness.
Reprobation
The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.
Sayer
Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings.
Sickly
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside.
Snappish
The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope.
Stage
A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a road.
Tang
A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics.
Thud
At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose.
Top
From endeavoring universally to top their parts, they will go universally beyond them.
Train
He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
Trammel
[They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract.
Trellised
Cottages trellised over with exotic plants.
Trimming
The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party.
Vegetate
Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them.
Verbosity
The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style.
Wain
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.
Winsome
Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature.