London Spectator

Cited as London Spectator. — 7 quotations

Milk

They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

Qua

It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal.

Shady

Shady characters, disreputable, criminal.

Slang

Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs.

Tub

Don't we all tub in England ?

Validate

The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate.

Viewy

A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work.