ll not enquire whether the watch is right or
not,' ii. 213.

WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,'
v. 34;
'Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
'Water is the same everywhere,' v. 54.

WAY. 'Sir, you don't see your way through that question,' ii. 122.

WEAK-NERVED. 'I know no such weak-nerved people,' iv. 280.

WEALTH. 'The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better,'
ii. 226.

WEAR. 'No man's face has had more wear and tear,' ii. 410.

WEIGHT. 'He runs about with little weight upon his mind,' ii. 375.

WELL. 'They are well when they are not ill' (Temple), iv. 379.

WENCH. 'Madam, she is an odious wench,' iii. 298.

WHALES. 'If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk
like whales' (Goldsmith), ii. 231.

WHELP. 'It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things,' iii.
51.

WHIG. 'A Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so' (Horace Walpole),
iv. 117, n. 5;
'He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he
was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2;
'He was a Whig who pretended to be honest,' v. 339;
'I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress, but I hate to see
a Whig in a parson's gown,' v. 255;
'Sir, he is a cursed Whig, a bottomless Whig, as they all are now,'
iv. 223;
'Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig,' ii. 170;
'The first Whig was the Devil,' iii. 326;
'Though a Whig, he had humanity' (A. Campbell), v. 357.

WHIGGISM. 'They have met in a place where there is no room for
Whiggism,' v. 385;
'Whiggism was latterly no better than the politics of stock-jobbers,
and the religion of infidels,' ii. 117;
'Whiggism is a negation of all principle,' i. 431.

WHINE. 'A man knows it must be so and submits. It will do him no
good to whine,' ii. 107.

WHORE. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a
dancing-master,' i. 266;
'The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't,' ii. 247.
See SLUT.

WHY, SIR. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing--,'
iii. 23.

WIG. 'In England any man who wears a sword and a powdered wig is
ashamed to be illiterate,' iii. 254.

WILDS. See BRIARS.

WIND. 'The noise of the wind was all its own' (Boswell), v. 407.

WINDOW. See SOFT.

WINE. 'I now no more think of drinking wine than a horse does,' iii. 250;
'It is wine only to the eye,' iii. 381; 'This is one of the
disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts,'
iii. 32