BLADE. 'A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,' v. 439, n. 2.
BLAZE. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
BLEEDS. 'When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,' i. 394.
BLOOM. 'It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been seen before by anybody,' i. 185.
BLUNT. 'There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion' (Sir
M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.
BOARDS. 'The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards'
(Garrick), ii. 465.
BOLDER. 'Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never were brought together,' iv. 13.
Bon-mot. 'It is not every man that can carry a bon-mot' (Fitzherbert), ii. 350.
BOOK. 'It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is concealed behind the door,' i. 396; 'You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have entertainment from a book,' iii. 385; 'Read diligently the great book of mankind,' i. 464; 'The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,' iv. 8, n. 3; 'The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more pain than pleasure in it,' iv. 218; 'It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold,' ii. 237.
BOOKSELLER. 'An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,' iii. 434.