Chapter Corinne to Corn-Law Rhymer of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

I saw advertised a splendid park hack, and… immediately proceeded to the Corner.—Lord W. Lennox: Celebrities, etc., ii. 15.

Cornet, a waiting-woman on lady Fanciful. She caused great offence because she did not flatter her ladyship. She actually said to her, “Your ladyship looks very ill this morning,” which the French waiting- woman contradicted by saying, “My opinion be, matam, dat your latyship never look so well in all your life.” Lady Fanciful said to Cornet, “Get out of the room; I can’t endure you;” and then turning to Mdlle. she added, “This wench is insufferably ugly.…Oh, by-the-by, Mdlle., you can take these two pair of gloves. The French are certainly well-mannered, and never flatter.”—Vanbrugh: The Provoked Wife (1697).

This is of a piece with the archbishop of Granada and his secretary Gil Blas. (See Archbishop of Granada, p. 55.)

Corney (Mrs.), matron of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born. She is a well-to-do widow, who marries Bumble, and reduces the pompous beadle to a hen-pecked husband.—Dickens: Oliver Twist, xxxvii. (1837).

Cornflower (Henry), a farmer, who “beneath a rough outside possessed a heart which would have done honour to a prince.”

Mrs. Cornflower (by birth Emma Belton), the farmer’s wife, abducted by sir Charles Courtly.—Dibdin: The Farmer’s Wife (1780).

Cornhill Magazine (The), started in 1860, Thackeray being its editor.

Cornhill to Grand Cairo (From), by Thackeray (1845). The “journey” was from Lisbon to Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, in the “Peninsular and Oriental Company.”

Corniole , the cognomen given to Giovanni Bernardi, the great cornelian engraver, in the time of Lorenzo di Medici. He was called “Giovanni delle Corniole” (1495–1555).

Corn-Law Rhymer (The), Ebenezer Elliot (1781–1849).