c-Sir, you prated long and loud of bravery, and this is how you show it-by desertion.

d-Oho, aha, I see! Aha! You've been kissing someone, and I know who! Oh, shame! shame! Kissing the boys! kissing the boys! Oh, shame! shame! shame!

Classical.

0 proper stuff!

This is the very painting of your fear:
This is the air-drawn dagger, which, you said,
Led you to Duncan.

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, iii, 4.

f-O shame! where is thy blush?

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 4.

170. RESENTMENT: (See Reproach.)

Colloquial.

a-That was a very mean thing for you to do.

Classical.

b-Your words and performances are no kin together. I think it is scurvy.

171. RESIGNATION:

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, iv, 2.

Colloquial.

a-I am resigned to my fate.

b-I'm used to it now, so I accept the situation and say

nothing.

Classical.

c-If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, v, 2.

174. REPROOF: (See Indignation, Advice.)

Colloquial.

a-Never stand in front of a lady in that manner; it's

discourteous.

b-That was very ungentlemanly indeed.

to be more careful.

Classical.

You ought

c-Do you take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves, leave your gaping.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, v, 4.

175. REQUEST: (See Interrogation, Authority, Com

mand.)

Colloquial.

a-May I take this book?

b-I want you to go there and ask him for my letters. c-Will you oblige me with your pencil?

d

Classical.

Grant me two things, I pray you:

Not to deny me, and to pardon me.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1.

e-Give me your gloves . . . and . .
and . . . I'll take this
ring from you.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1.

176. RETALIATION:

Colloquial.

a-There, that's what you get for striking me.

b-You strike, gentlemen, I strike back; you taunt, I

return it; you curse, I return that. Whatever you

give you'll get; rest assured of that.

serve you right.

And it will

Classical.

c-And there's for twitting me with perjury.

177. RETORT:

SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, III, v, 5.

Colloquial.

a—Well, I never lie; that's one thing I don't follow your example in.

Classical.

b-OCT.: Not that we love words better, as you do. BRU.: Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, v, 1.

178. REVENGE: (See Malice, Triumph, Retaliation.) 179. REVERENCE: (See Awe, Solemnity, Sadness.) 180. RIDICULE: (See Sarcasm, Irony, Mockery.)

Colloquial.

a-The gentleman says he saw the thunder; I have no doubt he will soon assert he heard the lightning, and looking forward to the past he will solemnly swear he saw the footprints of a hand.

b-He says he saw a ghost? Bah! He saw a sheet held up by some jackanapes of a boy, and he calls that a ghost. The whole thing is ridiculous, absurd.

Classical.

c-What's this? A sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
What up and down, carv'd like an appletart?
Why, what o' world's name, tailor, call'st thou this?
SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3.

181. SADNESS:

Colloquial.

a-It was the saddest death I ever witnessed. The children touching the face of the dead and calling, "Papa," "Papa"; the mother choking with sobs; the sheriff standing there with his writ—but I can't go on, I—I—

Classical.

b-The sun for sorrow will not show its head;
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, v, 3.

182. SARCASM: (See Ridicule, Irony, Mockery.)

Colloquial.

a-The gentleman is so very considerate, very; so amiable, so gentle. His remarks are so profound, so all-embracing, that I think we shall soon find him editing a baby's primer.

b-Brilliant? Of course you are; so, so brilliant. Really, it's a wonder you're not President.

Classical.

c-What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster

Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.
See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!
SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, III, v, 6.

183. SATISFACTION: (See Admiration.)

Colloquial.

a-Ah, that's just what I wanted, the very thing. Why, if you had thought for a year you couldn't have brought me anything I should like better. It's perfectly charming.

b-That, sir, is absolutely satisfactory. It realizes our hopes to the letter. It is perfection itself.

Classical.

C- -This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet

Sits smiling to my heart.

184. SCORN: (See Contempt.)

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 2.

Colloquial.

a—I scorn your offer, and you too, you hypocrite.

b—I want nothing to do with you, you wretch.

Classical.

-You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens,-whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men,

That do corrupt my air,-I banish you!

186. SELF-DENUNCIATION: (See Admission, Indigna

tion, Remorse.)

Colloquial.

a-I am absolutely ashamed of myself.

b—I admit it, I am a coward, a wretch-it was downright mean of me.

a-Oh, it's too much trouble to move. I'm sleepy-so sleepy. I could lounge here all day.

189. SOLEMNITY: (See Sadness.)

Colloquial.

a-I said to the doctor, "Is there any hope?" "None," he answered. We kept quite still. The poor fellow was breathing his last.