Chapter IV · Chapter 4

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

at or to or toward the back or rear

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

without regard to specific details or exceptions

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

represent in or produce a caricature of

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

take exception to

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

of or relating to clerks

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

an associate that one works with

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a special group delegated to consider some matter

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

plural of “confession” — an admission of misdeeds or faults

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

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From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a line leading to a place or point

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

put on clothes

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

indulging in or influenced by fancy

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a competitor thought likely to win

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

plural of “feather” — the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

applying to all or most members of a category or group

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

written or drawn or engraved

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a stack of hay

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

plural of “hieroglyphic” — writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

fasten with a hook

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

full of or characterized by humor

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

past form of “illustrate” — clarify by giving an example of

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a confused multitude of things

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

someone in charge of other people

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a written message addressed to a person or organization

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

an asset of special worth or utility

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

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From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

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From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

plural of “model” — a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a condition requiring relief

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

plural of “neighbour” — a person who lives (or is located) near another

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

plural of “novel” — an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

plural of “parody” — a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a word picture of a person's appearance and character

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

deliver a quick blow to

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

be a mystery or bewildering to

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

not clear to the understanding

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

plural of “reformer” — a disputant who advocates reform

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

increase the number of rotations per minute

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

plural of “satire” — witty language used to convey insults or scorn

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

term of address for a man

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)

From this reading If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

plural of “tableau” — a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

plural of “tale” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

English cartoonist (1820-1914)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER.

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From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

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plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

a fact that has been verified

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

precisely as stated

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

German conductor (1876-1962)

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

in a weird manner

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a Caucasian

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction.

the act of creating written works

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.

inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work

From this reading Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art.

a late time of life

From this reading Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post-Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence.