Here Mr. Tennyson has been known to read 'Maud' aloud to his friends: Mr. Browning Expatiated on the most recondite metrical rules: and Rossetti sent presents of poems and photographs.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
"It gar'd ma very blood rin faster tae the end of ma fingers juist tae look at him," Drumsheugh Expatiated afterwards to Hillocks, "for a' saw noo that there was tae be a stand-up fecht atween him an' deith for Saunders, and when a' thocht o' Bell an' her bairns, a' kent wha wud win.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
For Milly had Expatiated on the fortune they might confidently expect from the new laundry.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick