Careful Words

inside (n.)

inside (adv.)

inside (adj.)

He had got a hurt

O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 309.

  Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

Charles Lamb (1775-1834): Autobiographical Recollections. (Leslie.)

  An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.