The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and Tales to the Present Day, Selected for the Reading of Railway PassengersW.H. Smith and Son, 1850 - 192 Seiten |
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... Lady Margaret Herbert asked somebody for a pretty pattern for a night - cap . " Well , " said the person , " what signifies the pattern of a night - cap ? " " Oh ! child , " said she , " but you know , in case of fire ! " KEEPING ...
... Lady Margaret Herbert asked somebody for a pretty pattern for a night - cap . " Well , " said the person , " what signifies the pattern of a night - cap ? " " Oh ! child , " said she , " but you know , in case of fire ! " KEEPING ...
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... lady came to implore his protec- tion for one of her relations confined in the Abbey . He scarcely deigned to speak to her . As she retired in despair , she trod by accident upon the paw of his favourite spa- niel . Sejent , turning ...
... lady came to implore his protec- tion for one of her relations confined in the Abbey . He scarcely deigned to speak to her . As she retired in despair , she trod by accident upon the paw of his favourite spa- niel . Sejent , turning ...
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... Lady Coventry said , in a very vulgar ac- cent , if she drank any more , she should be muckibus.- Lord ! ' said Lady Mary Coke , what is that ? ' ' Oh ! it's Irish for senti- mental , ' " CREDIT AND DEBT . Coryat , in his " Crudities ...
... Lady Coventry said , in a very vulgar ac- cent , if she drank any more , she should be muckibus.- Lord ! ' said Lady Mary Coke , what is that ? ' ' Oh ! it's Irish for senti- mental , ' " CREDIT AND DEBT . Coryat , in his " Crudities ...
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... lady of a distinguished officer died in one of our colonies , just previous to which she expressed a wish to be buried in Eng- land , and was , accordingly , deposited in a cask of rum , for the purpose of transport home , but remained ...
... lady of a distinguished officer died in one of our colonies , just previous to which she expressed a wish to be buried in Eng- land , and was , accordingly , deposited in a cask of rum , for the purpose of transport home , but remained ...
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... Lady Pum- phraston , to whom a pound of fine green tea had been sent as a rare and valuable present , boiled the same , and served it up with melted butter , as condiment to a salted rump of beef ; and complained that no cooking she ...
... Lady Pum- phraston , to whom a pound of fine green tea had been sent as a rare and valuable present , boiled the same , and served it up with melted butter , as condiment to a salted rump of beef ; and complained that no cooking she ...
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Seite 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Seite 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Seite 62 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Seite 37 - Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Seite 2 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 177 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Seite 111 - ... of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number of readers is at present so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works. In the reigns of William the Third, of Anne, and of George the First, even...
Seite 64 - I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written
Seite 150 - Howe's dining-room, where she generally sat and received her company ; and Salt, who believed Howe to be a bachelor, frequently recommended his own wife to him as a suitable match. During the last seven years of this gentleman's absence, he went every Sunday to St. James's church, and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat, where he had a view of his wife, but could not easily be seen by her. After he returned home...