Ld. Lytton
Cited as Ld. Lytton. — 23 quotations
Carnation
Her complexion of the delicate carnation.
Crib
The Latin version technically called a crib.
Dare-devil
A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose.
Disesteem
Qualities which society does not disesteem.
do
We did not do these things.
Good
My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing.
Harassment
Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate.
Have
Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also?
Ineradicable
The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable.
Jaundice
The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
Knell
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, “alone”.
Left
Put that rose a little more to the left.
Myth
As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.
Neighborhood
Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
Pick
France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
Plumb
He did not attempt to plumb his intellect.
Rear
Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner.
Relation
For me . . . my relation does not care a rush.
Seesaw
He seesaws himself to and fro.
Sober
Vance gradually sobered down.
Speciality
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.
Touch
She feared his head was a little touched.
Weave
Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves.