The Old Hall, Or, Our Hearth and Homestead, Volume 1T.C. Newby, 1845 |
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... appearance , and of necessity led the observer to think of the con- sistency of starch , still its very formality gave an air which a flabby , ill - conditional cravat never yet had coupled with it . Then there was the long buff ...
... appearance , and of necessity led the observer to think of the con- sistency of starch , still its very formality gave an air which a flabby , ill - conditional cravat never yet had coupled with it . Then there was the long buff ...
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... appeared to struggle with diffi- culty through them . But it did come in great , thick , black masses ; for it would , indeed , have been a subject for wonderment if the chimneys of the Range ceased to disgorge their sooty vomit when ...
... appeared to struggle with diffi- culty through them . But it did come in great , thick , black masses ; for it would , indeed , have been a subject for wonderment if the chimneys of the Range ceased to disgorge their sooty vomit when ...
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... appeared to have been de- signed to personify Laughter . Every feature that he possessed , either directly or sympathe- tically , was in a constant state of grinning ; and for this peculiar office - as in all others designed by Nature's ...
... appeared to have been de- signed to personify Laughter . Every feature that he possessed , either directly or sympathe- tically , was in a constant state of grinning ; and for this peculiar office - as in all others designed by Nature's ...
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... appeared to be no other . However , it signifies something less than a split hair in the balance of events past or to come : there was John Hardy , loved by the high , revered by the humble , and a talis- man that inspired every heart ...
... appeared to be no other . However , it signifies something less than a split hair in the balance of events past or to come : there was John Hardy , loved by the high , revered by the humble , and a talis- man that inspired every heart ...
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... appearance of his hips being in close con- junction with his shoulders ; and to these were fixed the longest and most muscular arms that mortal ever possessed . The feats of strength related of Mike are quite beyond credence ; but he ...
... appearance of his hips being in close con- junction with his shoulders ; and to these were fixed the longest and most muscular arms that mortal ever possessed . The feats of strength related of Mike are quite beyond credence ; but he ...
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appeared asked the Squire badger bird-lime Blossom broiled fowl brow ceiling cheeks cheerful comfortable companion continued Mike cried dear ding-dong door ears Edward Dixon ejaculated John exclaimed John eyes fingers gave giving glass hallooed hand Hardy's Hark head hear heard heart Heaven hookah hound huntsman inquired James James Sykes Job's John Hardy John's laugh lips look loud Master Master Tom merry Mike Crouch Mike's mingled mirth mushroom sauce Nancy never nutmeg observed Mike Peter Parkins quired razor-grinder rejoined John rejoined Mike remarked replied John replied Mike resumed Mike returned John returned Mike reynard ring round scarcely shouted smile smoke Sniphey sound spoke squabby cob Squire's stranger stream stretched suppose Sykes Sykes's taking Tally-ho tell there's thick thought threw tion Tobias Smith Toby tone tongue turned voice waistcoat whipper-in wink younker
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Página 45 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 189 - Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Página 270 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 1 - It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 243 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who, A merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 3 - England, with all thy faults, I love thee still — My country ! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love thee.
Página 179 - ... minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year...
Página 134 - I am not saying we ought to tell the veteran what he ought to do, or what he ought not to do...
Página 223 - ... faded, of scenes of former times ; yet that in which the Squire and John Hardy were ensconced, on the shortest day of the year, did not lack a comfortable...
Página 8 - ... the crumbling hand of time, and the ravages of tempests and the storms of ages. A dried fosse surrounded the building, on the banks of which many a garden flower grew, and tall elms now towered from the very bed ; convincing proof that it must have been a long time ago since it had been applied for the...