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• Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, But ranged as infantry, We should have sat us down to wet And staring face to face, Right many a nipperkin!
  I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place....
• LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire....
• DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
  His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey...
• RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other.
  Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand....
• REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  "More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!...
• Death scene of Cyrano ] It is coming... I feel Already shod with marble.
  .. gloved with lead... Let the old fellow come now!...
• ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long.
  There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel....
• A gossip is a person with a keen sense of rumor.