Selden

Cited as Selden. — 14 quotations

Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased.

There was [formerly] some sense for commendams.

He should hither deduce a colony.

Dissipated those foggy mists of error.

A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.

Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken.

He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling.

The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out.

A king outed from his country.

That “whereas” gives me an outloose.

Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits.

They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff.

Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.

A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge.