Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.[495:1]
The Heart of Midlothian. Chap. viii.
Fat, fair, and forty.[495:2]
St. Ronan's Well. Chap. vii.
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
Peveril of the Peak. Chap. xlii.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.[495:3]
Life of Napoleon.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.[495:4]
Life of Napoleon. (February, 1807.)