ASPIRED. 'If he aspired to meanness his retrograde ambition was completely gratified,' v. 148, n. 1.
ATHENIAN. 'An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,' i. 73.
ATTACKED. 'I would rather be attacked than unnoticed,' iii. 375.
ATTENTION. 'He died of want of attention,' ii. 447.
ATTITUDENISE. 'Don't attitudenise,' iv. 323.
ATTORNEY. 'Now it is not necessary to know our thoughts to tell that an attorney will sometimes do nothing,' iii. 297; 'He did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney,' ii. 126.
AUCTION-ROOM. 'Just fit to stand at the door of an auction-room with a long pole, and cry "Pray gentlemen, walk in,"' ii. 349.
AUDACITY. 'Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,' ii. 292, n. 1.
AUTHORS. 'Authors are like privateers, always fair game for one another,'
iv. 191, n. 1;
'The chief glory of every people arises from its authors,' v. 137, n. 2.
AVARICE. 'You despise a man for avarice, but do not hate him,' iii. 71.