| lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 páginas
...idleings with a patience perfectly exemplary. They enjoyed that perfection of female enjoyment — " having nothing to do, and plenty of time to do it in." Christmas arrived, and with it all its festivities. "What can be more dreadful than your merry Christmas,"... | |
| 1872 - 36 páginas
...a ppreciable uses, except to be a great bother sometimes to that, unfortunate class of persons who, having nothing to do and plenty of time to do it in, spent a considerable portion of their existence in looking our for "symptoms;" the pernicious habit... | |
| James Powell - 1880 - 64 páginas
...cupboards ; and when the cupboard doors were shut, the rooms could be used as sitting rooms. On Friday, having nothing to do, and plenty of time to do it in, we took a stroll round the city, which possesses some handsome public buildings, plenty of small fountains,... | |
| Lord Edward Gleichen - 1888 - 386 páginas
...to keep the men and ourselves from getting seedy ; nothing damages you so much in a hot climate as having nothing to do, and plenty of time to do it in. Already several men were down with low fever of sorts, which developed itself into enteric in a few... | |
| George E. Thompson (of Birkenhead.) - 1893 - 198 páginas
...climbing up to the gate I found my chariot, and while the horses were harnessing, the population— having nothing to do and plenty of time to do it in— stood around, silently gazing, and I have the Mayor, Corporation and townsfolk in a group, wherewith... | |
| Finch Mason - 1902 - 362 páginas
...couple of ' commercials ' inside off to the station to catch the afternoon express up to town, and having nothing to do and plenty of time to do it in — feeling a trifle hipped, too, as well, perhaps — I thought I would take a stroll through the... | |
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