Laurence Sterne
Novelist and clergyman, 1713-1768
Cited as Sterne. — 28 quotations
Bedevil
Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew.
Bemuffle
Bemuffled with the externals of religion.
Bubbler
The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
Carousal
The swains were preparing for a carousal.
Contrist
To deject and contrist myself.
Daub
Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord.
Disconsolated
A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature.
Draught
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught.
Drop
The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
Dulcinea
I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head.
Each
In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
Generalship
An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust.
Incarnate
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate.
Lenitive
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
Lump
Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together.
Obfuscate
His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter.
oddity
That infinitude of oddities in him.
Pat
I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.
Pencraft
I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft.
Periclitate
Periclitating, pardi! the whole family.
He would pocket the expense of the license.
Rout
This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
Slavery
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught!
Squiralty
That such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom.
Stock-still
His whole work stands stock-still.
Valance
His old fringed chair valanced around with party-colored worsted bobs.
Whinny
A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common.
Zigzaggery
The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches.