 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 oldal
...seawater, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. • Mrs. Partington 's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest...should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease ; be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. 4. " Poor Indians ! Where are... | |
 | 1872 - 556 oldal
...sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest...puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. WIT. WHEN wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence and restrained... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 408 oldal
...sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused ; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1873 - 302 oldal
...water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused ; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up, but I need not tell you that the contest...should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease, be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington." I have mentioned a saying of... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 oldal
...Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that tho contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs....puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest." — Speeches. FRANCIS JEFFREY (b. 1773, d. 1850) was, as we have seen, one of the originators of the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 662 oldal
...and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused j Mrs. Parting-ton's spur' was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 oldal
...sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest...should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease — be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. They tell you, gentlemen, in... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 oldal
...Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused ; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs....should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease; be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington." At a time when a nation's passions... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 oldal
...sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's 'spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the...unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. Speech at Taunton, 1831. Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation,... | |
 | James Routledge - 1876 - 680 oldal
...sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest...should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease — be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington." And again :— " Stick to... | |
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In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic... 
