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Whether a thing shall be designated by a plain noun-substantive or by a circumlocution is mere matter of fashion. Morality is not at all interested in the question. But morality is deeply interested in this, that what is immoral shall not be presented to the imagination of the young and susceptible in constant connection with what is attractive.
We therefore protest against a useful and tuneful noun-substantive, a native of France, the word bouquet, being maimed into boquet, a corruption as dissonant to the ear as were to the eye plucking a rose from a variegated nosegay, and leaving only its thorny stem. Boquet is heard at times in well-upholstered drawing-rooms, and may even be seen in print.
'The name of the Creditor is Riah, said Mr Fledgeby, with a rather uncompromising accent on his noun-substantive. 'Saint Mary Axe. Pubsey and Co. 'Oh yes! exclaimed Mrs Lammle, clasping her hands with a certain gushing wildness. 'Pubsey and Co.! 'The pleading of the feminine Mr Fledgeby began, and there stuck so long for a word to get on with, that Mrs Lammle offered him sweetly, 'Heart?
This, or the inverted breeches, with his father's flannel waistcoat, or an old coat that swept the ground at least two feet behind him, constituted his state dress. On week days he threw off this finery, and contented himself, if the season were summer, with appearing in a dun-colored shirt, which resembled a noun-substantive, for it could stand alone.
I require a deal of pulling through, Arthur, said Mr Meagles, shaking his head, 'a deal of pulling through. I stick at everything beyond a noun-substantive and I stick at him, if he's at all a tight one. 'Now I think of it, returned Clennam, 'there's Cavalletto. He shall go with you, if you like. I could not afford to lose him, but you will bring him safe back. 'Well!
He had scarcely got into the passage, and closed the door after him, when a roar as of a bereaved spirit rang through the room opposite, followed by a string of words, the only intelligible one being the noun-substantive "globe", and the next moment the door opened and Moriarty came out. The last stroke of ten was just booming from the clock.
Some men rarely revert to their father, but seem, in the bank-books of their remembrance, to have transferred all the stock of filial affection into their mother's name. Mr. Bagnet is one of these. Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive "goodness" of the feminine gender. It is not the birthday of one of the three children.
So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article, and, if it happened not to be the name of the thing she wanted, to look round for that thing, lay hold of it, and hold on by it until the bargain was concluded.
"You mistake verb for noun-substantive," replied his lordship; "I said rob and kidnap a man may do either once and away without being professional." "But not without spilling a little foolish noble blood, or some such red-coloured gear," said Chiffinch, starting up.
A cat may look at a king; and upon this or that out-of-the-way point a writer may presume to be more knowing than his reader the serf may undertake to convert his lord. The reader is a great being a great noun-substantive; but still, like a mere adjective, he is liable to the three degrees of comparison.
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