The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

-- -- See if he is not cutting it into slips, and giving them about him to light their pipes! -- -- 'Tis abominable, answered Didius; it should not go unnoticed, said doctor Kysarcius -- -- -- ☞ he was of the Kysarcii of the Low Countries.

Methinks, said Didius, half rising from his chair, in order to remove a bottle and a tall decanter, which stood in a direct line betwixt him and Yorick -- -- -you might have spared this sarcastic stroke, and have hit upon a more proper place, Mr. Yorick -- or at least upon a more proper occasion to have shown your contempt of what we have been about: If the sermon is of no better worth than to light pipes with -- -- 'twas certainly, Sir, not good enough to be preached before so learned a body; and if 'twas good enough to be preached before so learned a body -- -- 'twas certainly, Sir, too good to light their pipes with afterwards.