1695. Congreve, Love for Love, iii. 15. I mean to toss a can, and remember my sweetheart before I turn in.
1703. Steele, Tender Husband, ii. 1. A good servant shou'd turn his hand to everything in a family. Ibid. (1710), Tatler, 127. For the benefit of such whose heads are a little turned [with] . . . this dangerous distemper [pride]. Ibid., Spectator, 264. Irus, though he is now turned of fifty, has not appeared in the world in his real character since five-and-twenty.
d. 1719. Addison [Century]. He turned off his former wife to make room for this marriage.
1729. Swift, Direct. to Servants, 'Gen. Direct.' The master storms, the lady scolds; stripping, cudgelling, and turning off is the word.
1743-5. Pococke, Descr. East, ii. ii. 227. When they are turned of thirty they begin to look thin.
1749. Smollett, Gil Blas (1812), iii. ii. I was deeply affected . . . resolving to turn over a new leaf, and live honestly.
1759. Goldsmith, Bee, 2. The spirit of public fanaticism turned their heads.
1777. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 3. How your expectations will turn out is more . . . than you can tell.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas [Routledge], 54. We can turn him round our finger. Ibid., 91. I have already introduced to her three well-furnished gallants, but she turned up her nose at them. Ibid., 255. Pounding Lama's fair face to a jelly, and turning her whole house out at window.
1813. Sydney Smith, To John Allen, 24 Jan. Those accidental visitations of fortune are like prizes in the lottery, which must not be put into the year's income till they turn up.
1835. Dana, Before Mast, 8. I found that no time was allowed for day-dreaming, but that we must turn to at the first light. Ibid., 57. No man can be a sailor . . . unless he has lived in the fo'castle with them, turned in and out with them, and eaten from the common kid.
1837-8. Thackeray, Yellowplush Papers, ix. I saw them turned off at igsackly a quarter past twelve.
1843. Dickens, David Copperfield, xi. I shall, please Heaven, begin to be beforehand with the world . . . if—in short, if anything turns up.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 353. I never had a wife, but I have had two or three broomstick marriages, though they never turned out happy.
1851. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii. She watched the fish . . . as if . . . her immortal happiness were involved in its being done precisely to a turn.
1855. Gaskell, North and South, xviii. 'What do you say to a strike, by way of something to talk about?' 'Have the hands actually turned out?'
1855. Holland, Sydney Smith, viii. The struggle for his society . . . would have been quite enough to turn any head less strong than his.
1857. Hughes, Torn. Brown's Schooldays, ii. 6. Tom felt at once that his flank was turned.
1860. Holmes, Professor, viii. Here is a boy that loves to run, swim, kick football, turn somersets.
1864. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. To all things could he turn his hand. . . . 'This is my house, and this my little wife.' 'Mine too,' said Philip, ' turn and turn about.'
1869. Stowe, Oldtown, 406. Tina is a little turned of fifteen; she is going to be very beautiful.
1871. Horsley, Jottings from Jail. 'What catch would it be if you was to turn me over?' So I took him into a pub which had a back way out, and called for a pint of stout, and told the reeler to wait a minute.
1872. Warner, Backlog Studies, 125. Then from every house and hamlet the men turned out.
1874. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., i. 54. If a black swan turns up. . . .
1881. G. S. Hall, German Culture, 306. The German official . . . is always appalled at the quantity of work his com-peer here can turn off in a given time.
1885. Field, 4 Ap. Information that turns out to be hardly correct.
1885. Sims, Rogues and Vagabonds. Marston had long ago announced his intention to turn the game up.
