Arguments about the deserving and undeserving poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.

Let no Ariſtarch of learning diſdain performances of this kind.

She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a vamp—a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections.

Finally, jobs that are 'widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had a widow-maker on its hands once in a while. ... One typical 'widow-maker' has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company.