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Circumlocution-Clapper-clawing

Office.

Circumlocution.— The Circumlocution Office was . . . the most important Department under government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving How not to do it. DICKENS, Little Dorrit, x Citizen. The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand.1

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Speech before the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 11, 1902 Civet. I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss gentleman that's all perfume.

COWPER, Conversation, lines 283, 284

Civic. Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite.

Civil.

TENNYSON, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 6 The intestine shock

And furious close of civil butchery.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part I, i, I Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, Prologue

Civilizes. The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

COWPER, Conversation, line 254

Clanging. Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her

soul;

Clanging like a smithy-shop after every roll;

Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray
So we threshed the "Bolivar" out across the Bay!

KIPLING, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 4

Have always been at daggers-drawing,

Clapper-clawing.
And one another clapper-clawing.

BUTLER, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 79, 80

'The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavour, ready for a hero's deeds, and in this world doing all that in him lies, so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he has lived.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Sp. bef. Y. M. C. A., Dec. 30, 1900

Claret.

The claret smooth, red as the lips we press

In sparkling fancy, while we drain the bowl.

THOMSON, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 703, 704 Classes. I have seen some nations like o'erloaded asses Kick off their burthens - meaning the high classes. BYRON, Don Juan, Canto xi, st. 84

Classic.— Still I seem to tread on classic ground.

ADDISON, Letter from Italy, line 12 "Come away;

Clay."She is dead!" they said to him.
Kiss her! and leave her! thy love is clay!"

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, She and He, st. 1

Some must follow, and some command,
Though all are made of clay.

LONGFELLOW, Kéramos, st. I
PELLO

Clean. Let your hands and your conscience

Be honest and clean;

Scorn to touch or to think of

The thing that is mean;

But hold on to the pure

And the right with firm grip,

And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip!"

PHOEBE CARY, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st. 3

Cleanliness.- Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

WESLEY, Sermon on Dress

Clergy. The clergy have played the part of the fly-wheel in our modern civilization.

HOLMES, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, i

Climb. Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall.1
RALEIGH, Line Written on Window of Queen

Elizabeth's Pavilion

To climb steep hills

Requires slow pace at first.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, i, 1

Clock. From that chamber, clothed in white,
The bride came forth on her wedding night;
There, in that silent room below,
The dead lay in his shroud of snow;

And in the hush that followed the prayer,

Was heard the old clock on the stair,—

"For ever never!

Never for ever!"

LONGFELLOW, The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 7

1 If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, Line Written Beneath Raleigh's Inscription

Orlando. There's no clock in the forest.

Rosalind. Then there is no true lover in the forest; else sighing every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.

SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, iii, 2

Cloister. For aye to be in shady cloister mewed,
To live a barren sister all your life,

Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon 1
SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i, 1

Cloud.

There does a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night.

Hamlet. Do you see
shape of a camel? 2

MILTON, Comus, lines 223, 224

yonder cloud that's almost in

Polonius. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel.

Polonius. It is backed like a weasel.

Hamlet. Or like a whale.

Polonius. Very like a whale.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 2

Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, iii, 4

Clouds. I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun;

And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.

J. G. C. BRAINARD, Epithalamium, st. 1

Coaches. What are we .. but coaches? . . . Our passions are the horses, and rampant animals, too.

We start from The Mother's Arms, and we run to The
Dust Shovel.
DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, viii

Coarse.

Thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize TENNYSON, Locksley Hall, lines 45, 46

with clay.

1I was not good enough for man,

And so am given to God.

KINGSLEY, The Ugly Princess, st. 4

2 Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish;

A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,

A towered citadel, a pendent rock,

A forked mountain, or blue promontory

With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world,

And mock our eyes with air:

That which is now a horse, even with a thought

The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,

As water is in water. SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 14 [12]

Coat. There's a hole made in your best coat.

Cobwebs.

SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 5

And with as delicate a hand,
Could twist as tough a rope of sand;
And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull
That's empty when the moon is full;
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.

BUTLER, Hudibras, I, i, lines 157-162

Cock. Bernardo. It was about to speak when the cock

crew.

Horatio. And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.'

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 1

The early village cock

Hath twice done salutation to the morn.

SHAKESPEARE, King Richard III, v, 3

Cockle. How should I your true love know

From another one?

By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iv, 5

Coffee. Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
POPE, Rape of the Lock, iii, lines 117, 118

Cold. For this relief much thanks: 't is bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, I

I had a true-love, none so dear,
And a friend both leal and tried:

I had a cask of good old beer,
And a gallant horse to ride.

My lady fell to shame and hell,
And with her took my friend;

My cask ran sour, my horse went lame,
So alone in the cold I end.

Coliseum.

LORD DE TABLEY, Fortune's Wheel, st. 1. 3

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;

And when Rome falls

the world.

BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 145

The cock he crew; the fiends they flew

From the voice of the morning away.

SOUTHEY, The Old Woman of Berkeley, st. 27

Collar. His locked, lettered, braw brass collar
Showed him the gentleman and scholar.

BURNS, The Twa Dogs, st. 3

Cologne. The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;

But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

S. T. COLERIDGE, Cologne, lines 7-10

Colonel. I personally wish

to be appointed colonel .; and this regardless of whether he can tell the exact shade of Julius Cæsar's hair.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Note to Secretary Stanton, November 11, 1863

Colossus. Why, man, he doth bestride the world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, i, 2

Colour. Deem our nation brutes no longer,
Till some reason ye shall find
Worthier of regard, and stronger
Than the colour of our kind.
Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings
Tarnish all your boasted powers,
Prove that you have human feelings
Ere you proudly question ours.

Colours.

CowPER, The Negro's Complaint, st. 7

Stood for his country's glory fast,
And nailed her colours to the mast.1

SCOTT, Marmion, Introd. to Canto i

Colt. Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, i, 3

Columbia.- Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
TIMOTHY DWIGHT, Columbia, st. 1

Hail, Columbia! happy land!

Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band!

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause!

JOSEPH HOPKINSON, Hail, Columbia! st. I

Through childhood, through manhood,

Through life to the end,

Struggle bravely and stand

By your colours, my friend. Only yield when you must:

Never "give up the ship,"

But fight on to the last

"With a stiff upper lip!" PHOEBE CARY, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st. 4