If he was at times severe or caustic in his remarks on others, it was when excited by the exhibition of the little arts of little minds.

He had a good deal to say about the danger there was from the teeth of animals or of human beings when enraged, and he emphasised his remarks by the application of a pencil of lunar caustic to each of the marks left by the sharp white teeth.

She found him closeted with a steak-and-kidney pie, and appears to have been a bit caustic about fat men who lived for food alone.

We shall find his pages caustic with wit, satire, and irony, and often disfigured with coarseness.

When she attempted to apply the caustic of satire instead of the mild balsam of moral tales, she speedily made herself enemies.

Now and then we know he has a caustic thing or two to say about women; but it is lunar-caustic for a wart.

He married a wife who proved more caustic than the potash and more than a match for his patience.