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.