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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18. oldal
... hand ; and if any servant or apprentice missed one bow or scrape , or made it at the wrong time , or dared to look off his book , or said Amen in the wrong place , rap went the stick over his head and ears and knuckles . It was in vain ...
... hand ; and if any servant or apprentice missed one bow or scrape , or made it at the wrong time , or dared to look off his book , or said Amen in the wrong place , rap went the stick over his head and ears and knuckles . It was in vain ...
21. oldal
... hand , First , in the field , beneath the sun's strong rays , Ask of thy mother earth the needful maize ; She loves the race that courts her yielding soil , And gives her bounties to the sons of toil . When now the ox , obedient to thy ...
... hand , First , in the field , beneath the sun's strong rays , Ask of thy mother earth the needful maize ; She loves the race that courts her yielding soil , And gives her bounties to the sons of toil . When now the ox , obedient to thy ...
22. oldal
... hand , The milk is strain'd , the bowls in order stand , The fire flames high ; and as a pool ( that takes The headlong stream that o'er the milldam breaks ) Foams , roars , and rages with incessant toils , So the vex'd caldron rages ...
... hand , The milk is strain'd , the bowls in order stand , The fire flames high ; and as a pool ( that takes The headlong stream that o'er the milldam breaks ) Foams , roars , and rages with incessant toils , So the vex'd caldron rages ...
24. oldal
... hand ; I knock him down , if I can , without saying a word . If the natural arm be not sufficient for this purpose , I avail myself of any stone , wooden , or iron instrument that I cast my eye upon , not just to take away his life , if ...
... hand ; I knock him down , if I can , without saying a word . If the natural arm be not sufficient for this purpose , I avail myself of any stone , wooden , or iron instrument that I cast my eye upon , not just to take away his life , if ...
25. oldal
... hand , and take good aim . Remember that the pistol - barrel being short , the powder is apt to throw the bullet up . Your sight , therefore , ought to be about the waistband of his breeches , so that you have the whole length of his ...
... hand , and take good aim . Remember that the pistol - barrel being short , the powder is apt to throw the bullet up . Your sight , therefore , ought to be about the waistband of his breeches , so that you have the whole length of his ...
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