unearths some literary gems.
From Henry Cecil's Daughters in Law:
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[Spoken by a character who has a "thing" about lawyers, and who is alarmed that his sons both plan to marry women who practice the law and (inevitably, he asserts) raise a new generation of lawyers]:
"Even in the womb the lawyer will find a way. For all we know, he'll take legal proceedings in there, and the child that's born will be the result of a nolle prosequi or some other of their beastly Latin phrases."
[This book is from 1961, but I'm already imagining the ca. 1900 magazine illustration that would go with it. I suppose the womb could not be depicted or even suggested in a lay periodical of that time... but a baby in a barrister's wig would do nicely, eh?]
