Willie Redmond told of finding him [Oscar Wilde], to his astonishment, at the conversazione of some theatrical society, standing amid an infuriated crowd, mocking with more than all his old satirical wit the actors and their country.

... if you cannot make a speech, Because you are a flat, Go very quietly and drop A button in the hat!

The queen of England, however, frowardly bent on opposing the match to the utmost, directed sir Nicholas Throgmorton, her ambassador, to set before the eyes of Mary a long array of objections and impediments; and he was further authorized secretly to promise support to such of the Scottish nobles as would undertake to oppose it.

Eye of mortal man had never looked on Artemus's guyascutis; it was only heard of, like Madame Benoiton.