I was then invited to join the Punch staff and take Leech's empty chair at the weekly dinner-and bidden to cut my initials on the table, by his; his monogram as it was carved by him is J.L. under a leech in a bottle, dated 1854; and close by on the same board are the initials W.M.T. I flatter myself that convivially, at least, my small D.M., carved in impenetrable oak, will go down to posterity in rather distinguished company!
"Social Pictorial Satire"
George du Maurier
The proposition was received with a cordial enthusiasm, flattering to all concerned; and in a few minutes after, Billy Traynor sat at the head of a long table in the neat parlor of "The Griddle," with a company of some fifteen or sixteen very convivially disposed friends around him.
"The Fortunes Of Glencore"
Charles James Lever
So convivially windy was Mr. Wing that he had talked steadily through two blocks before it came over Charles, with force, that Mary's uncle had had a sharp aim from the beginning.
"Angela's Business"
Henry Sydnor Harrison