Witnesses claimed to have heard Spooner say:On meeting a widow, he remarked that it was very sad, "her late husband was eaten by missionaries."
Calling a famous Irish play "The Ploughboy of the Western World".
"Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
"The Lord is a shoving leopard" (Loving shepherd).
" A well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle."
"I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (for half-formed wish), supposedly said in a speech to Queen Victoria.
A toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen."
Upon dropping his hat: "Will nobody pat my hiccup?"
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