“I was at X – — yesterday! your brother Ned is getting richer than Croesus by railway speculations; they call him in the Piece Hall a stag of ten[559]
; and I have heard from Brown. M. and“
Vocabulary
A
abate
abstruse
acquiesce
adhesiveness
affar
affectation
afianced
alacrity
alder
allotment
anchorite
anon
appellative
arcana
assiduity
assiduously
astute
attire
austerity
avidity
B
backbite
bafle
bane
behest
belligerent
benevolent
benignant
bid
bigot
bilious
billet
blandishment
blaspheme
blue-dyer
bondsman
bonnet
brevity
briar
bugle
C
cabas
cackle
cajole
calumniate
camisole
candour
cane
canvas
capsize
carcase
casserole
celibacy
cemetery
cessation
chaste
chastisement
chattel
chide
choice
churl
cinder
circumlocution
cloister
coercive
collectedly
combativeness
commencement
commendation
complexion
congealed
congeniality
conjecture
connoisseur
conscientiously
consent
consummate
consumptive
contemplative
contention
contumacity
conventual
cormorant
cow
crafty
crayon
crochety
culprit
curb
cursorily
curtsey
D
daisy
declivity
defray
dejection
delirium