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Journal to Stella VII Oct. (1814) 61: After dinner we went to a blind tavern, where Congreve, Sir Richard Temple, Eastcourt, and Charles Main were over a bowl of bad punch.at blind alehouse (n.) under blind, adj.1
Journal to Stella VII Oct. (1814) 61: After dinner we went to a blind tavern, where Congreve, Sir Richard Temple, Eastcourt, and Charles Main were over a bowl of bad punch. letter v 4 Oct. in Journal to Stella (1901) 27: Mr. Harley [...] has appointed me an hour on Saturday at four, afternoon, when I will open my business with him; which expression I should not use if I were a woman.at open one’s business (v.) under business, n.
letter v 5 Oct. in Journal to Stella (1901) 28: Now you are in a huff because I tell you this.at huff, n.
letter viii 31 Oct. Journal to Stella (1901) 55: Well little monkeys mine, I must go write; and so good-night.at monkey, n.
letter iii Journal to Stella (1901) 12: Pox on these declining courtiers!at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
letter vi 13 Oct. Journal to Stella (1901) 36: What shall Presto do for prittle-prattle to entertain MD?at prittle-prattle, n.
letter vi 14 Oct. in Journal to Stella (1901) 40: Slids, I would the horse were in your—chamber!at ’slid!, excl.
letter xxix 8 Sept. in Journal to Stella (1901) 289: No, ’tis not your pen is bewitched, Madam Stella, but your scrawling, splay-foot pot-hooks] .at pothooks (and hangers), n.
letter iii 19 Sept. Journal to Stella (1901) 13: It is good enough for naughty girls that won’t write to a body, and to a good boy like Presto.at body, n.
letter xxviii 21 Aug. Journal to Stella (1901) 274: We have only a Grub Street paper of it, but I believe it is true.at Grub Street, adj.
letter xxviii 21 Aug. Journal to Stella (1901) 275: Pretty, dear, little, naughty, saucy M.D. Silly, impudent, loggerhead Presto.at loggerhead, n.
letter lx 24 Feb. in Journal to Stella (1901) 513: I chid the servants, and made a rattle.at rattle, n.
Journal to Stella 13 Nov. (2004) 238: I was sick on Sunday, and now have got a swingeing cold.at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
letter xxxii 10 Oct. Journal to Stella (1901) 312: He says that an ambitious tantivy, missing of his towering hopes of preferment in Ireland is come over to vent his spleen on the late Ministry, etc. I’ll tantivy him with a vengeance.at tantivy, n.
letter xxix 8 Sept. Journal to Stella (1901) 343: I doubt, Madam Dingley, you are apt to lie in your travels, though not so bad as Stella; she tells thumpers, as I shall prove in my next.at thumper, n.
letter xxxviii 8 Jan. in Journal to Stella (1901) 378: Lord-keeper and Treasurer teased me for a week. It was nuts to them; a serious thing with a vengeance.at nuts, n.1
letter lxv 6 June in Journal to Stella (1901) 550: When I read that passage upon Chester walls, as I was coming into town, and just received your letter, I said aloud—Agreeable B-tch.at bitch, n.1
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