Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).
The Judas who betrayed Tully to the sicarii was a cobbler. The man who murdered him was named Herennius.
Tungay, the one-legged man at Salem House.
He generally acted, with his strong voice, as Mr. Creakle’s interpreter to the boys.--C. Dickens, David Copperfield, ii. (1849).
Tunstall (Frank), one of the apprentices of David Ramsay, the watchmaker.--Sir W. Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).
Tupman (Tracy), M.P.C., a sleek, fat young man, of very amorous disposition. He falls in love with every pretty girl he sees, and is, consequently, always getting into trouble.--C. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836).
Turbulent School of Fiction (The), a school of German romance writers, who returned to the feudal ages, and wrote between 1780 and 1800, in the style of Mrs. Radcliffe. The best known are Cramer, Spiers, Schlenkert, and Veit Weber.
Turcaret, a comedy by Lesage (1708), in which the farmers-general of France are gibbeted unmercifully. He is a coarse, illiterate man, who has grown rich by his trade. Any one who has risen from nothing to great wealth, and has no merit beyond money-making, is called a Turcaret.
Turcos, native Algerian infantry, officered by Frenchmen. The cavalry are called Spahis.
Turell (Jane), a fair Puritan, whose early precocity and mature accomplishments are related by her husband. Before she was four years old she “could say the Assembly’s Catechism, many of the Psalms, some hundred lines of the best poetry, read distinctly, and make pertinent remarks on many things she read.” In later years she fulfilled the promise thus given of intellectual acquirements, while “her innocence, modesty, ingenuity and devotion charmed all into admiration of her.”--Ebenezer Turell, Memoirs of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Jane Turell (1735).