... innocent, which can't be said for everything dons do in their spare time, such as intriguing, knifing each other, writing Whig history, secret drinking, and so forth. Naturally this observation doesn't apply to the Public Orator or his deputy, who has ...

... Whiggish flavour of the cold game pie and scrambled eggs, the Whiggish sizzling of the urn, the untimely, half-aired atmosphere of Whig- gery and priggery faugh In that age practically everybody of note had a fearful liver and devoured enormous breakfasts (at ...