1849 Lytton Caxtons I Pt iv 167: ‘It’s Lombard Street to a China orange,’ quoth uncle Jack. ‘Are the odds in favour of fame against failure so great?’ [...] answered my father.at Lombard Street to a china orange, phr.
1849 Lytton Caxtons II Pt xiii 324: Bolding had lived a year and a half at Oxford as a ‘fast man;’ so ‘fast’ had he lived that there was scarcely a tradesman at Oxford into whose books he had not contrived to run.at fast, adj.1
1849 Lytton Caxtons III Pt xviii 278: No woman could have been more flattered and courted by Lotharios and lady-killers than Lady Castelton has been.at lothario, n.
1849 Lytton Caxtons II Pt xiii 325: He [...] had replied with conscious pride, ‘That he could tool a coach!’.at tool, v.