The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic Selections from the Writings of the Most Eminent Humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ...William Evans Burton D. Appleton, 1859 |
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13. oldal
... votes were frequently passed at town - meetings , with the view to prevent the augmentation of prices , and stop the depreciation of the paper - money . As men in jail without mainprize View every thing with THE LIBERTY POLE . 13.
... votes were frequently passed at town - meetings , with the view to prevent the augmentation of prices , and stop the depreciation of the paper - money . As men in jail without mainprize View every thing with THE LIBERTY POLE . 13.
28. oldal
... Stop , villain , ” said he to the king of the Killinoos , " you are not to take that scalp yet , however much you may value it . He will not take a hundred dollars for it , nor five hundred , though you make him king of the Kicka- poos ...
... Stop , villain , ” said he to the king of the Killinoos , " you are not to take that scalp yet , however much you may value it . He will not take a hundred dollars for it , nor five hundred , though you make him king of the Kicka- poos ...
33. oldal
... stop at the foot of the hill , whilst they ascended for water to recruit him . This interpretation , it is true , derives some countenance from the considera- tion that Jack and Gill were in reality , as will ap- pear in the course of ...
... stop at the foot of the hill , whilst they ascended for water to recruit him . This interpretation , it is true , derives some countenance from the considera- tion that Jack and Gill were in reality , as will ap- pear in the course of ...
50. oldal
... stop short at the most trivial expenditure ; talk desperately of being ruined and brought upon the parish ; and , in such moods , will not pay the smallest tradesman's bill , without violent altercation . He is in fact the most punctual ...
... stop short at the most trivial expenditure ; talk desperately of being ruined and brought upon the parish ; and , in such moods , will not pay the smallest tradesman's bill , without violent altercation . He is in fact the most punctual ...
52. oldal
... stop it . He rants about the room ; hectors the old man about his spendthrift practices ; ridi- cules his tastes and pursuits ; insists that he shall turn the old servants out of doors ; give the bro- ken - down horses to the hounds ...
... stop it . He rants about the room ; hectors the old man about his spendthrift practices ; ridi- cules his tastes and pursuits ; insists that he shall turn the old servants out of doors ; give the bro- ken - down horses to the hounds ...
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