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... says , " To chaffer is now to talk much and idly " ; and Webster , Ogilvie , Cassell , & c . , have this sense on the authority of Trench . But no examples of chaffer = chatter , jabber , have been sent in by the readers for the ...
... says , " To chaffer is now to talk much and idly " ; and Webster , Ogilvie , Cassell , & c . , have this sense on the authority of Trench . But no examples of chaffer = chatter , jabber , have been sent in by the readers for the ...
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... says that gentleman's wife , sitting by his bedside , and trying to amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his ...
... says that gentleman's wife , sitting by his bedside , and trying to amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his ...
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... says , p . 342 , " Some say also that it is good for the chames or chenkes of the skin . " I should be glad to have information about the word chames . J. A. H. Murray . The Scriptorium , Oxford . ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S ' SKETCHES IN ...
... says , p . 342 , " Some say also that it is good for the chames or chenkes of the skin . " I should be glad to have information about the word chames . J. A. H. Murray . The Scriptorium , Oxford . ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S ' SKETCHES IN ...
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... says , " de m'aperçois que la dernière parti du wolt aura ote detraite par le Comte Marcolini , depositaire confident du manuscrit à la morte de Casanova " Aa Cote de Waldstein would natur ally have wished to avoid a publication so ...
... says , " de m'aperçois que la dernière parti du wolt aura ote detraite par le Comte Marcolini , depositaire confident du manuscrit à la morte de Casanova " Aa Cote de Waldstein would natur ally have wished to avoid a publication so ...
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... says , " During Lord Carteret's administration given by my ancestor on some very important the strange attempt to continue the supplies for question in the Irish House of Commons . Charles twenty - one years was defeated only by one ...
... says , " During Lord Carteret's administration given by my ancestor on some very important the strange attempt to continue the supplies for question in the Irish House of Commons . Charles twenty - one years was defeated only by one ...
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Seite 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Seite 445 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Seite 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Seite 282 - As likewise to genuine and authorised tea-table talk, such as mending of fashions, spoiling reputations, railing at absent friends, and so forth. But that on no account you encroach upon the men's prerogative, and presume to drink healths, or toast fellows...
Seite 174 - Yea, is he yet so lusty ? Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will, Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then ; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.
Seite 168 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Seite 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Seite 424 - I not deny The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
Seite 282 - Lastly, to the dominion of the tea-table I submit — but with proviso, that you exceed not in your province; but restrain yourself to native and simple tea-table drinks, as tea, chocolate, and coffee: as likewise to genuine and authorized tea-table talk — such as mending of fashions, spoiling reputations, railing at absent friends, and so forth...