How To Use Dr. Johnson In A Sentence
- I enclose you Dr. Johnson's definition of a vampyre, which is as follows: Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1
- 'Dr. Johnson has rightly said that the incommodities of a single life are necessary and certain, but those of a conjugal state are avoidable. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
- Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell's intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to _write his life_ he would prevent it by _taking Boswell's! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
- It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.' On Dictionaries
- Lamb (who drank only water) retired almost with the dinner itself, nothing remained for men of our principles, the rigor of which we had illustrated by taking rather too much of old port before the cloth was drawn, except talking; amoebaean colloquy, or, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, a dialogue of "brisk reciprocation. Biographical Essays
- He is what Dr. Johnson calls a rapturist, and I saw plainly he meant to pour forth much civility into my ears. Life Of Johnson
- ‘It is useless,’ Dr. Johnson once remarked, ‘to criticize an unresisting imbecility.’
- On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
- Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
- Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
