Mrs. Malaprop Malapropisms

...promise to forget this fellow - to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory."
   [obliterate]

"O, he will dissolve my mystery!"
   [resolve]

"He is the very pine-apple of politeness!"
   [pinnacle]

"I have since laid Sir Anthony's preposition before her;"
   [proposition]

"Oh! it gives me the hydrostatics to such a degree."
   [hysterics]

"I hope you will represent her to the captain as an object not altogether illegible."
   [eligible]

"...she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying."
   [comprehend]

"...she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile."
   [alligator]

"I am sorry to say, Sir Anthony, that my affluence over my niece is very small."
   [influence]

"Why, murder's the matter! slaughter's the matter! killing's the matter! - but he can tell you the perpendiculars."
   [particulars]

"Nay, no delusions to the past - Lydia is convinced;"
   [allusions]

"...behold, this very day, I have interceded another letter from the fellow;"
   [intercepted]

"I thought she had persisted from corresponding with him;"
   [desisted]

"His physiognomy so grammatical!"
   [phraseology]

"I am sure I have done everything in my power since I exploded the affair;"
   [exposed]

"I am sorry to say, she seems resolved to decline every particle that I enjoin her."
   [article]

"...if ever you betray what you are entrusted with... you forfeit my malevolence for ever..."
   [benevolence]

"Your being Sir Anthony's son, captain, would itself be a sufficient accommodation;"
   [recommendation]

"Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"
   [apprehend, vernacular, arrangement, epithets]

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