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  ...155, n. 2.
ROCK. 'It is like throwing peas against a rock,' v. 30; 'Madam, were they in Asia I would not leave the rock,' v. 223.
ROCKS. 'If anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle,' iii. 136.
ROPE-DANCING. 'Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dancing,' ii. 440.
ROTTEN. 'Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him,' ii. 210; 'Then your rotten sheep are mine,' v. 50.
ROUND. Round numbers are always false.   ' iii. 226, n. 4.
RUFFIAN. 'I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian,' ii. 298.
RUFFLE. 'If a mere wish could attain it, a man would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle,' ii. 357.
RUFFLES. 'Ancient ruffles and modern principles do not agree,' iv. 81.
RUINING. 'He is ruining himself without pleasure,' iii. 348.
RUNTS. 'Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts' (Mrs. Salusbury), iii. 337.
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SAILOR. 'No man will...   Johnson, Samuel

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