Once a WeekEneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1872 |
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... turned very yellow , and looked faint as a spent stag . Lydia - quick - witted - recovered herself first : she saw through the matter in a mo- ment . " Well , uncle , " she said , trying to put the best face on the affair , " you'll ...
... turned very yellow , and looked faint as a spent stag . Lydia - quick - witted - recovered herself first : she saw through the matter in a mo- ment . " Well , uncle , " she said , trying to put the best face on the affair , " you'll ...
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... turned into three - halfpence - not played with . And this , his father told him , if kept up the year round ( Sundays left out ) , was fif- teen thousand six hundred and fifty per cent . per annum . And the boy entered into this great ...
... turned into three - halfpence - not played with . And this , his father told him , if kept up the year round ( Sundays left out ) , was fif- teen thousand six hundred and fifty per cent . per annum . And the boy entered into this great ...
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... turned at the angle of the staircase , and then I slipped after him . I kept behind a statue that stood there , for fear he might turn back and discover me . I held my breath ; but I could hear the beating of my heart like the ticking ...
... turned at the angle of the staircase , and then I slipped after him . I kept behind a statue that stood there , for fear he might turn back and discover me . I held my breath ; but I could hear the beating of my heart like the ticking ...
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... turned upon him , trembling . " Who - who - are you ? " he stammered . It was a figure he did not know : that of a tall , strong man , warmly wrapped in a thick pilot jacket , with a stout stick in his hand , and a round felt hat upon ...
... turned upon him , trembling . " Who - who - are you ? " he stammered . It was a figure he did not know : that of a tall , strong man , warmly wrapped in a thick pilot jacket , with a stout stick in his hand , and a round felt hat upon ...
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... turned to the left . The old man went after him as he strode out of the room , and clanked in his great boots along the passages - which he seemed to know well enough - in great wonderment and not a little terror . But how was he to ...
... turned to the left . The old man went after him as he strode out of the room , and clanked in his great boots along the passages - which he seemed to know well enough - in great wonderment and not a little terror . But how was he to ...
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Page 166 - To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe: And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards, And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards, And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks, And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks; And it seemed as if a voice (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery Is breathed) called out, Oh rats, rejoice!
Page 166 - Come in!" the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red, And he himself was tall and thin, With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, But lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire. Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire, Starting up...
Page 166 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Page 584 - WE know him, out of Shakespeare's art, And those fine curses which he spoke ; The old Timon, with his noble heart, That, strongly loathing, greatly broke. So died the Old : here comes the New. Regard him : a familiar face : I thought we knew him : What, it's you, The padded man — that wears the stays — Who killed the girls and thrilled the boys With dandy pathos when you wrote ! A Lion, you, that made a noise, And shook a mane en papillotes.
Page 230 - God do make and ordaine this my Last Will and Testament in manner and forme following that is to say first and principally I commend my...
Page 166 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered: And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling, And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives— Followed the Piper...
Page 584 - Not mine, not mine (O muse forbid) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloined conceits, Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats ; Where all the airs of patchwork pastoral chime To drown the ears in Tennysonian rhyme ! * » * » * Let school-miss Alfred vent her chaste delight On ' darling little rooms so warm and bright...
Page 22 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Page 134 - The eagle, the vulture, and the merloun for an emperor. The ger-falcon, and the tercel of the gcr-falcon for a king. The falcon gentle, and the tercel gentle for a prince. The falcon of the rock for a duke. The falcon peregrine for an earl. The bastard for a baron. The sacre and the sacret for a knight. The lanere and the laneret for an esquire. The marlyon for a lady. The hobby for a young man. The goshawk for a yeoman. The tercel for a poor man. The sparrow-hawk for a priest. The musket for a holy-water...
Page 305 - A woman, having a settlement, married a man with none ; The question was, he being dead, if that she had was gone. Quoth Sir John Pratt : ' Her settlement suspended did remain, Living the husband ; but, him dead, it doth revive again.