CHARLES DICKENS.  1812-1870.

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. xxxiv.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Nicholas Nickleby. Chap. lxiv.

In a Pickwickian sense.

Pickwick Papers. Chap. i.

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,

That creepeth o'er ruins old!

Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,