Citations:arbor vitae

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English citations of arbor vitae

Noun: a man’s penis[edit]

  • (Can we date this quote?), quoted in 2009 by David Nokes in Samuel Johnson: A Life, page 247:
    The London Evening-Post published a fantasy in which Johnson’s ‘amiable consort’ became pregnant, ‘the old lady’s bulk’ not arising from ‘the Stamina of his arbor vitae’ but from a surfeit of cabbages sent to her []