"I have never wished to imply that Mistress Lambert was aught but my most obliging, most amiable landladynor have I, to my certain knowledge, overstepped the privileges of a lodger.

"Young Lambert is a bookworm, your Honor," suggested Pyot, who was keen on the business, seeing that his zeal, if accompanied by success, would surely mean promotion; "there'll be ink and paper in the cottage....

Lambert, indeed, was a prisoner in the Tower, confined by order of the council, because he had refused to give security for his peaceable behaviour; but, with the aid of a rope, he descended[a] from the window of his bed-chamber, was received by eight watermen in a barge, and found a secure asylum in the city.

Mistress Lambert is your aunt?" he added superciliously, "is she not?"

LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH, German philosopher and mathematician; was the successor and rival of Leibnitz in both regards, and was patronised by Frederick the Great (1619-1728).

Adam Lambert was no scholar.

Daddy LAMBERT was a great man, so was the living skeleton, yet even a casual observer could perceive the difference in their greatness.

"Yet it must last for another few weeks at least...." "I know ... and Lambert is a desperate enemy: he dogs Sue's footsteps, he will come upon you one day when you are alone, or with her ...