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Lismahaʹgo (Captain)

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in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker. Very conceited, fond of disputation, jealous of honour, and brim-full of national pride. This poor but proud Scotch officer marries Miss Tabitha Bramble. The romance of Captain Lismahaʹgo among the Indians is worthy of Cervantes.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lip
Lip Homage
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Lisbon
Lismahago (Captain)
Lisuarte of Greece
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Little Corporal (The)
Little Dauphin (The)
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