DOGGED.  ‘Dogged veracity,’ iii. 378.

DOGGEDLY.  ’A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,’ i. 203; v. 40, 110.

DOGMATISE.  ‘I dogmatise and am contradicted,’ ii. 452, n. 1.

DONE.  ’What a man has done compared with what he might have
done,’ ii. 129;
  ‘What must be done, Sir, will be done,’ i. 202.

DOUBLE.  ‘It is not every name that can carry double,’ v. 295;
  ‘Let us live double,’ iv. 108.

DOUBTS.  ‘His doubts are better than most people’s certainties’ (Lord Chancellor Hardwicke), iii. 205.

DRAW.  ’Madam, I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds’ (Addison), ii. 256.

DRIFT.  ‘What is your drift, Sir?’ iv. 281.

DRIVE.  ’I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or
draws me,’ iv. 273, n. 1;
  ’If your company does not drive a man out of his house, nothing
will,’ iii. 315;
  ‘Ten thousand Londoners would drive all the people of Pekin,’
v. 305.

DRIVING.  ‘You are driving rapidly from something, or to something,’ iii. 5.

DROPPED.  ’There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by,’ iv. 73.

DROVES.  ’Droves of them would come up, and attest anything for the honour of Scotland,’ ii. 311.

DROWNED.  ’Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned,’ v. 137.

DRUNK.  ‘Never but when he is drunk,’ ii. 351;
  ‘Equably drunk,’ iii. 389;
  ’People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to
get drunk,’ v. 249;
  ’A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of
getting drunk,’ iii. 389.

DUCKING-STOOL.  ‘A ducking-stool for women,’ iii. 287.

DULL.  ‘He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others’
(Foote), iv. 178;
  ‘He was dull in a new way,’ ii. 327.

DUNCE.  ‘It was worth while being a dunce then,’ ii. 84;
  ‘Why that is because, dearest, you’re a dunce,’ iv. 109.

E.

EARNEST.  ‘At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,’ v. 288, n. 3.

EASIER.  ‘It is easier to write that book than to read it’ (Goldsmith),
ii. 90;
  ‘It is much easier to say what it is not,’ iii. 38.

EAST.  ’The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,’ v. 35.

ECONOMY.  ‘The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,’ iii. 300.

Emptoris sit eligere, i. 155.

EMPTY-HEADED.  ‘She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,’ iii. 48.

END.  ‘I am sure I am right, and there’s an end on’t’ (Boswell in imitation of Johnson), iii. 301; ‘We know our will is free, and there’s an end on’t,’ ii. 82; ‘What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,’ ii. 407.