Little Rays of MoonshineA. A. Knopf, 1921 - 168 Seiten |
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A. P. HERBERT apple-pie bed back legs Barkers barrister bath bathroom Bear-Garden bears begin better Bill Bits of London bloaters Bond Street Book of Jonah box of fish Bradshaw chorus comic poetry course creatures CURTAIN dance dead dealers difficult doo-dah day face fact fish-porters flea Garden grasshopper Grunch halibut heaps and heaps hear hippogriff House of Lords Hullo imagine John Joner kind lady last line Limericks Little Guiggols Lloyd George look Lord Northcliffe Lurch lyric Madam Maggie Master mean Michael Flannigan never once perhaps picture poem purlieus rhymes river Thames roaring round seems shout singing Slint snarling song sorry sort speak stridulation suddenly sure tell thing throw tion tune typists vers libre verse walk whale White Spat whole window wonder words writing young
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Seite 117 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Seite 47 - The People's flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyred dead; And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their life-blood dyed its every fold.
Seite 59 - But he has turned out to be a lady, so I have had to give her a bun. She is a lady solicitor; but I don't know how she came to be talking to the Bolshevik. When you have learned how to do men, the only other things in Drawing are Perspective and Landscape. PERSPECTIVE is great fun: the best thing to do is a long French road with telegraph poles (Fig.
Seite 95 - Government—and why would it not be?—and they cried out against himself and said it was having the ship sunk on them he would be, and he rose up out of his bed and "Is it sinking the ship I would be?
Seite 57 - The next thing to do is to put in the ear ; and once you have done this the rest is easy. Ears are much more difficult than eyes (Fig. 4). I hope that is right. It seems to me to be a little too far to the southward. But it is done now. And once you have put in the ear you can't go back; not unless you are on a -very good committee which provides india-rubber as well as pencils. Now I do the hair. Hair may either be very fuzzy or black, or lightish and thin.
Seite 99 - I tell you now that no good would come of the prophesying, and you that was brought up a decent lad by your own father in Kilbay ? TJ: And what happened to you when you were thrown in at all ? MR. J.: Sure, I was swallowed by a great whale, and the Lord said to the whale TJ: Holy Mother ! It's mad he is and not drunk at all! MR. J. It is not mad I am nor drunk either. Wasn't I three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, and the sea roaring without, the same as a man would lie in his warm...
Seite 57 - I go in for strong heads. (Fig. 3 ). I am afraid it is not a strong neck; I expect he is an author, and is not well fed. But that is the worst of strong heads; they make it so difficult to join up the chin and the back of the neck.
Seite 49 - round! the Frenchman loves its blaze, The sturdy German chants its praise; In Moscow's vaults, its hymns are sung, Chicago swells its surging song.
Seite 113 - Acridiida is produced by friction of the hind legs against portions of the wings or wing-covers...
Seite 58 - Until one draws hair one never realrlG. 4 izes what large heads people have. Doing the hair takes the Whole of a speech, usually, even one of the chairman's speeches. This is not one of my best men; I am sure the ear is in the Wrong place. And I am inclined to think he ought to have spectacles. Only then he would be a clergyman, and I have decided that he is Mr. Philip Gibbs at the age of twenty. So he must carry on with his eye as it is. I find that all my best men face to the west ; it is a curious...