The Attaché: Or Sam Slick in EnglandStringer & Townsend, 1856 - 359 páginas |
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... plaguy sight quicker than it will walk out , I guess . " Sais I , Friend , you've taken the consait out of me properly . Captain Hall said there warn't a man , woman , or child , in the whole of the thirteen united univarsal worlds of ...
... plaguy sight quicker than it will walk out , I guess . " Sais I , Friend , you've taken the consait out of me properly . Captain Hall said there warn't a man , woman , or child , in the whole of the thirteen united univarsal worlds of ...
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... talk silly presently . 66 " I don't like to be left alone with a gall , its plaguy apt to set me a soft sawderin ' and a courtin ' . There's a sort of nateral attraction like in this world . Two ships in a calm 2 SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND . 25.
... talk silly presently . 66 " I don't like to be left alone with a gall , its plaguy apt to set me a soft sawderin ' and a courtin ' . There's a sort of nateral attraction like in this world . Two ships in a calm 2 SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND . 25.
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... plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on ; we have tried all them things they are a jawin ' about here , and they naterally want to know the re- sults . Cooper says not one Tory called on him when he was to England , but ...
... plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on ; we have tried all them things they are a jawin ' about here , and they naterally want to know the re- sults . Cooper says not one Tory called on him when he was to England , but ...
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... plaguy good actin ' , I tell you . " I'm a thinkin ' it tante a rael gentleman that's proud , but only a hop . You've seen a hop grow , hante you ? It shoots up in a night , the matter of several inches right out of the ground , as ...
... plaguy good actin ' , I tell you . " I'm a thinkin ' it tante a rael gentleman that's proud , but only a hop . You've seen a hop grow , hante you ? It shoots up in a night , the matter of several inches right out of the ground , as ...
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... plaguy jealous of their neighbor , Elder Josh Chisel , that exhorted to - day . How did you like Brother Josh to - day ? ' says Sourcrout , a utterin ' of it through his nose . Good men always speak through the nose . It's what comes ...
... plaguy jealous of their neighbor , Elder Josh Chisel , that exhorted to - day . How did you like Brother Josh to - day ? ' says Sourcrout , a utterin ' of it through his nose . Good men always speak through the nose . It's what comes ...
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Página 216 - When women is by, fend off with fun ; when it's only men, give 'em a taste of your breed, delicately like, jist hintin' in a way they can't mistake, for a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Página 342 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 276 - ... Eternal hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Página 107 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the very verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 68 - And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Página 67 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Página 107 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of...
Página 213 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Página 213 - Come thou, and reign over us. But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Página 276 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed...