BRENTFORD. 'Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?' iv. 186.
BRIARS. 'I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and thorns still hang about me' (Marshall), iii. 313.
BRIBED. 'You may be bribed by flattery,' v. 306.
BRINK. 'Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. 1.
BROTHEL. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a brothel,' iii. 25.
BRUTALITY. 'Abating his brutality he was a very good master,' ii. 146.
BUCKRAM'D. 'It may have been written by Walpole and buckram'd by Mason' (T. Warton), iv. 315.
BULL. 'If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, "Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?"' ii. 228.
BULL'S HIDE. 'This sum will…get you a strong lasting coat supposing it to be made of good bull's hide,' i. 440.
BURDEN. 'Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of himself,' v. 358, n. 1.