Tug (Tom), the waterman, a straightforward, honest young man, who loved Wilhelmi´na, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bundle, and, when he won the waterman’s badge in rowing, he won the consent of “the gardener’s daughter” to become his loving and faithful wife.--C. Dibdin, The Waterman (1774).
Tukely, the lover of Sophia. As Sophia has a partiality for the Hon. Mr. Daffodil, “the male coquette,” Tukely dresses in woman’s clothes, makes an appointment with Daffodil, and gets him to slander Sophia and other ladies, concealed among the trees. They thus hear his slanders, and, presenting themselves before him, laugh him to scorn.--Garrick, The Male Coquette (1758).
Tulk´inghorn (Mr.), attorney-at-law and legal adviser of the Dedlocks. Very silent and perfectly self-contained, but, knowing Lady Dedlock’s secret, he is like the sword of Dam´oclês over her head, and she lives in ceaseless dread of him.--C. Dickens, Bleak House (1852).
Tullia, wicked daughter of Servius Tullius, king of Rome. She conspired with her paramour to compass her father’s death, and drove over his dead body on her way to greet her accomplice as king.
Tulliver (Mr.), honest, irascible miller, whose love for “the little wench,” his daughter, is the gentlest feeling of his nature. His pride is hurt by financial disaster; he becomes a hireling of the man he hates; his fortunes are redeemed by his son, but he dies soon afterward.
Tulliver (Mrs.), a weak, garrulous woman, vain of her “Dodson blood.”
Tulliver (Maggie), fine, upright, imaginative, affectionate girl, understood by few, and passionately loved by two men. She resists her love for her cousin’s almost betrothed, and suffers the loss of reputation patiently. Tom Tulliver, her brother, is the sternest of her censors. The two are drowned together in a river-flood.--George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss.
Tully, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator (B.C. 106-43). He was proscribed by Antony, one of the triumvirate, and his head and hands, being cut off, were nailed, by the orders of Antony, to the Rostra of Rome.
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,
Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.