Make Your Game, Or, The Adventures of the Stout Gentleman, the Slim Gentleman, and the Man with the Iron Chest: A Narrative of the Rhine and ThereaboutsWard and Lock, 1860 - 266 Seiten |
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... , and gazing moodily at the dashing Amazons and the dashing carriages , radiant with varnish , and blazing with B heraldry . Young Ultimus Homo ( son of Lord Worldsend CHAPTER From the Tower of London to Rotterdam on the Rhine.
... , and gazing moodily at the dashing Amazons and the dashing carriages , radiant with varnish , and blazing with B heraldry . Young Ultimus Homo ( son of Lord Worldsend CHAPTER From the Tower of London to Rotterdam on the Rhine.
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... Lord Worldsend ) was , indeed , compelled to remain in town . His arduous duties as a Treasury clerk- ( " Why can't they shut up the Tweasuwy when gwouse - shooting begins ? " asked young Ultimus Homo of Lady Clara Formosa's miniature ...
... Lord Worldsend ) was , indeed , compelled to remain in town . His arduous duties as a Treasury clerk- ( " Why can't they shut up the Tweasuwy when gwouse - shooting begins ? " asked young Ultimus Homo of Lady Clara Formosa's miniature ...
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... Lord John Russell - a little man , but said to be ready to undertake the command of the Channel Fleet , and to perform the operation for the stone- and who , for his ( stout ) part , I thoroughly believe , would gleefully have consented ...
... Lord John Russell - a little man , but said to be ready to undertake the command of the Channel Fleet , and to perform the operation for the stone- and who , for his ( stout ) part , I thoroughly believe , would gleefully have consented ...
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... Lord Nelson , K.C.B. " " Herz mein herz warum so traurig ? " ( the steersman had commenced that sentimental ditty ) . “ Oh , very well , perhaps you'll oblige me with a light . What on earth are you reading there ? " The last part of ...
... Lord Nelson , K.C.B. " " Herz mein herz warum so traurig ? " ( the steersman had commenced that sentimental ditty ) . “ Oh , very well , perhaps you'll oblige me with a light . What on earth are you reading there ? " The last part of ...
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... lord of Falkenstein's death , the fatal silver bell continues to ring . " Dear me ! " said the stout gentleman , " I wonder at what time of the year he died . I hope it isn't going to ring now . I am sure it would spoil my appetite ...
... lord of Falkenstein's death , the fatal silver bell continues to ring . " Dear me ! " said the stout gentleman , " I wonder at what time of the year he died . I hope it isn't going to ring now . I am sure it would spoil my appetite ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 87 - TO THE LADY ANNE HAMILTON.* Too late I staid, forgive the crime, Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass...
Seite 97 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Seite 189 - The unfledged gamester watches the play more narrowly. A stout lady in a maroon velvet mantle, and a man with a bald head, a black patch on his occiput, and gold spectacles, obligingly makes way for him.
Seite 194 - ... indignation meetings of Venezuelan bond-holders, coupons, cases of champagne, satin-skinned horses with plaited manes, grand stands, pretty faces, bright flags, lobster salads, cold lamb, fortune-telling gipsies, barouches-and-four, and "our Aunt Sally." High play is still rife in some aristocratic clubs ; there are prosperous gentlemen who wear clean linen every day, and whose names are still in the Army List, who make their...
Seite 98 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Seite 195 - Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Seite 122 - And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! "How happy,
Seite 267 - ALL ROUND THE WORLD. An Illustrated Record of Voyages, Travels and Adventures in all Parts of the Globe.
Seite 170 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Seite 183 - ... to shuffle and mix. He then finally shuffles them, and removes the end cards into various parts of the three hundred and twelve cards, until he meets with a court card, which he must place upright at the end.