Old Leaves: Gathered from Household WordsChapman and Hall, 1860 - 437 Seiten |
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... nights every week , all through the rolling year . Which of us , after this , shall find fault with the rather more extensive system of good and evil , when we don't quite understand it at a glance ; or set the stars right in their ...
... nights every week , all through the rolling year . Which of us , after this , shall find fault with the rather more extensive system of good and evil , when we don't quite understand it at a glance ; or set the stars right in their ...
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... night- mare , does he never dream of that ? Then that enormous table upon which the public shoot their letters through the window - slits - do the four men who sit at it never fancy themselves playing at whist , gathering up an enormous ...
... night- mare , does he never dream of that ? Then that enormous table upon which the public shoot their letters through the window - slits - do the four men who sit at it never fancy themselves playing at whist , gathering up an enormous ...
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... night , when I was beginning to feel knocked up , and tired of the same songs , the same quadrilles , the bad whisky , the suf- focating tobacco - smoke , and the morning's certain and despe- rate penalties , I remarked to Jimmy , that ...
... night , when I was beginning to feel knocked up , and tired of the same songs , the same quadrilles , the bad whisky , the suf- focating tobacco - smoke , and the morning's certain and despe- rate penalties , I remarked to Jimmy , that ...
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... nights longer . I was fairly beaten . Cast - iron could not have stood it . I was prostrated in bed with fever - and worse . " 66 Well , well , you need not enlarge upon that , " replied Phil Fid , raising his glass towards his lips ...
... nights longer . I was fairly beaten . Cast - iron could not have stood it . I was prostrated in bed with fever - and worse . " 66 Well , well , you need not enlarge upon that , " replied Phil Fid , raising his glass towards his lips ...
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... night and all night ; and the nights are plaguy long just now . ' " I could not muster a word . " Ferd Fid , ' continued the voice , which now seemed about fifty fathoms deep ; and , fast as we were dropping down the stream , the boat ...
... night and all night ; and the nights are plaguy long just now . ' " I could not muster a word . " Ferd Fid , ' continued the voice , which now seemed about fifty fathoms deep ; and , fast as we were dropping down the stream , the boat ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alfreton appeared asked Bank of England Bank-note Bevil Bovington Calder called carriage clerk colours Company corner Crample Crookston Dodo door Eusta exclaimed eyes face fish five forgery Fortnum and Mason four gentleman George Dornley glass hand head Hockle horse hour hundred inquiry Inspector John Clare letters live London look Lord Matthew Marshall ment miles millions minutes Miss Bliss months morning never newspapers night Nobble notes Nottingham o'clock Old Lady Old Lady's paper passed pawnbroking Paxton person plate poor Post-office pounds sterling present Prince prisoner railway replied round Royal Royal George Rrobrecht Serene Highness servant shillings Smithy Houses sort Spitalfields Squire station thousand pounds tion took turned twenty Uncle Victoria Regia Vollum watch whole wife window woman words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 262 - is Freedom's chosen station; Here peals the people's voice, nor can entomb it Racks, prisons, inquisitions ; resurrection Awaits it, each new meeting or election.
Seite 162 - ... a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm. him at one time with the unbounded extent of...
Seite 66 - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses...
Seite 148 - I felt lu as a botanist, and felt myself rewarded : a gigantic leaf from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim ; of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water. Quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. The smooth water was covered with the blossoms, and as I rowed from one to the other I always observed something new to admire.
Seite 104 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Seite 161 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Seite 33 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.
Seite 71 - steward!" from all parts of the room — the word "waiter" is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or a merchant's clerk a few months before.
Seite 195 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles, conferred by a foreign power, has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them...
Seite 61 - ... the parent animals are thus brought within the reach of man, who, but for the action of this law, would be deprived of many of those species most valuable to him as food. For the mackerel dispersed over the immense surface of the deep, no effective fishery could be carried on ; but, approaching the shore as they do from all directions, and roving along the coast collected in immense shoals, millions are caught, which yet form but a very small portion compared with the myriads that escape.