"So, sir," said my father to me one day at dinner,-and nothing was more rare than for him to address a word to me, and I was startled as he did so,-"so, sir, you are going to turn out an Admirable crichton on my hands, it seems.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Lately, however, it had boasted one, quite an Admirable crichton in his way, who, had his moral equaled his mental qualities, would have carried all before him.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
But perhaps he thought most of all of that Admirable crichton who was born at Sanquhar, not in the castle of his wild and brilliant family, but at Eliock House.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
