Chapter Lillyvick to Linkinwater of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Do not, for Heaven’s sake, bring down Corydon and Lindor upon us.—Sir W. Scott.

Lindsay (Margaret), the heroine of a novel by professor John Wilson, entitled Trials of Margaret Lindsay, a very pathetic story (1785–1854).

Linet, daughter of sir Persaunt, and sister of Lionês of Castle Perilous (ch. 131). Her sister was held captive by sir Ironside, the Red Knight of the Red Lands. Linet went to king Arthur to entreat that one of his knights might be sent to liberate her; but as she refused to give up the name of her sister, the king said no knight of the Round Table could undertake the adventure. At this, a young man nicknamed “Beaumains” (Gareth), from the unusual size of his hands, and who had been serving in the kitchen for twelve months, entreated that he might be allowed the quest, which the king granted. Linet, however, treated him with the utmost contumely, calling him dish-washer, kitchen knave, and lout; but he overthrew all the knights opposed to him, delivered the lady Lionês, and married her. (See Lynette.)—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur, i. 120–153 (1470).

N.B.—Some men nicknamed her “The Savage” (ch. 151). Tennyson, in his Gareth and Lynette, makes Gareth marry Lynette, which spoils the allegory (see p. 406).

Lingo, in O’Keefe’s comedy Agreeable Surprise (1798).

Lingon (Parson), in the novel called Felix Holt, the Radical, by George Eliot (Mrs. J. W. Cross) (1866).

Lingua, or “the Combat of the Tongue,” an allegorical play. Cromwell took the part of “Tactus” in this play (1607).

Linkinwater (Tim), confidential clerk to the brothers Cheeryble. A kindhearted old bachelor, fossilized in ideas, but most kind-hearted, and devoted to his masters almost to idolatry. He is much attached to a blind blackbird called “Dick,” which he keeps in a large cage. The bird has lost its voice from old age; but, in Tim’s opinion, there is no equal to it in the whole world. The old clerk marries Miss La Creevy, a miniature-painter.

Punctual as the counting-house dial…he performed the minutest actions, and arranged the minutest articles in his little room in a precise and regular order. Paper, pens, ink, ruler, sealing-wax, wafers,…Tim’s hat, Tim’s scrupulously folded gloves, Tim’s other coat, …all had their accustomed inches of space.… There was not a more accurate instrument in existence than Tim Linkinwater.—Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, xxxvii. (1838).