He was inimitable as a raconteur, and Thackeray, Trollope, and Arthur Helps were fond of quoting some of the stories which he would dramatise in the telling.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Was it but the metaphor-making of dreams, which will so often take our forgotten speculations and dramatise them for us into reality, or was it indeed a message?
"The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]"
Richard Le Gallienne
Boardman tacitly refused to modify or withdraw it, and Dan said, after a sulky silence, in which he began to dramatise a meeting with his family: "I'm going home; I can't stand it here.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009