As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

He had great personal charm.

[H]e [Thomas Pringle] was poor, and from the outset [William] Blackwood domineered over and brusqued him. [James] Cleghorn was also poor, but of a sturdy disposition, and he brusqued every body.