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 - Всего страниц: 192 |
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... seen each other before now . " " No , we haven't , old boy , " was the impudent reply ; upon which , quietly turning on his seat , Mr. Hobler said , " I think I've an invite of yours , " and opening a drawer took out and read , to the ...
... seen each other before now . " " No , we haven't , old boy , " was the impudent reply ; upon which , quietly turning on his seat , Mr. Hobler said , " I think I've an invite of yours , " and opening a drawer took out and read , to the ...
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... seen him for a long time , to be downcast in his countenance , and very unlike himself , was asked whether anything serious had befallen him . " Nothing of the sort , " was his reply ; " but I am quite an altered character . I have left ...
... seen him for a long time , to be downcast in his countenance , and very unlike himself , was asked whether anything serious had befallen him . " Nothing of the sort , " was his reply ; " but I am quite an altered character . I have left ...
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... seen . on shelves and in compartments , the innumerable articles which have been left in the trains during the last two months , each being ticketed and numbered with a figure corresponding with the entry - book in which the article is ...
... seen . on shelves and in compartments , the innumerable articles which have been left in the trains during the last two months , each being ticketed and numbered with a figure corresponding with the entry - book in which the article is ...
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... seen at the Garrick Club , restricting himself at dinner to a half a pint of sherry ; whence he was designated an incorporated temperance society . To do him justice , however , this was not s choice ; he diluted it with fre- quent ...
... seen at the Garrick Club , restricting himself at dinner to a half a pint of sherry ; whence he was designated an incorporated temperance society . To do him justice , however , this was not s choice ; he diluted it with fre- quent ...
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... seen in that place before . Away ran Tom , and , de- lighted at his success , picked up first a hen , then a chicken , then fished out a dying duck or two , and so on , until he numbered eight head of domestic game , with which his bag ...
... seen in that place before . Away ran Tom , and , de- lighted at his success , picked up first a hen , then a chicken , then fished out a dying duck or two , and so on , until he numbered eight head of domestic game , with which his bag ...
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Стр. 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Стр. 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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
Стр. 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...