Better leave phrase-making to us phrase-mongers.

Sancho bore it for some time, but at length, starting up, he bade the physician avaunt, saying, "By the sun's light, I'll get me a good cudgel, and beginning with your carcase, will so belabour all the physic-mongers in the island, that I will not leave one of the tribe.

Richelieu loves his niecetoo well, if we are to credit the scandal-mongers of the Courtand with La Comballet in our hands we may dictate whatever terms we will.

Chief Justice Ellsworth, in a charge delivered in Massachusetts, denounced "the French system-mongers, from the quintumvirate at Paris to the Vice-President and minority in Congress, as apostles of atheism and anarchy, bloodshed, and plunder."

'He has to me; and so well, that were I sure that the poor were as ill off as he says, and that I had the power of altering the system a hair, I could find it in my heart to excuse all political grievance-mongers, and turn one myself.' Claude Mellot clapped his white woman-like hands.

A stream of these came and went trouble-mongers who despised and insulted the Saints, and returned to Washington with calumnies on their lips.

His heart is touched, and he invites the music-monger to join him in his study and share his informal dinner.

"Say, Lady Carfax, let me go and kick that old scandal-monger into the middle of next week!"

She told me that she used to be one of the maids there, before she married the spice-monger and was Madame Robard.

Zounds, you pick-hatch[150] Cavaliero petticote-monger, can you find time to be catching Thomasin?

He lost no time in vain regrets, however, but got a militia bill through parliament, improved the defences of Quebec, and issued a proclamation enjoining all good subjects to find out, report, and seize every sedition-monger they could lay their hands on.

So sang a ballad-monger of the Revolution; and the opinion which he voiced persisted after him.

And Tamerlane, meeting the poet with a frown of anger, said, "Art not thou the insolent verse-monger who didst offer my two great cities Samarkand and Bokhara for the black mole upon thy lady's cheek?"

Answer me one question: Are you happy in your married life?" "Go ask the scandal-mongers of New York," was the bitter reply: "they are eloquent respecting the perfection of my connubial bliss.

At a dinner-party that night a woman whom she hated, and wrote down an evil-minded scandal-monger and inventor and disseminator of lies, suddenly said to her, "Who is this Mrs. Harris, my dear?" "How should I know?" replied Mrs. Dearman.