The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, Volumen9Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1906 |
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... gone down upon him — and I really thought his heart was broken , and mine too . B I heard afterward that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles before noon . On the first Sunday after he was taken there I was to go and see him ...
... gone down upon him — and I really thought his heart was broken , and mine too . B I heard afterward that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles before noon . On the first Sunday after he was taken there I was to go and see him ...
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... gone I rang for Mrs. Crupp , and acquainted her of my desperate design . Mrs. Crupp said , in the first place , of course it was well known she couldn't be ex- pected to wait , but she knew a handy young man who , she thought , could be ...
... gone I rang for Mrs. Crupp , and acquainted her of my desperate design . Mrs. Crupp said , in the first place , of course it was well known she couldn't be ex- pected to wait , but she knew a handy young man who , she thought , could be ...
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... gone . I was feeling for it in the window - curtains , when Steerforth , laughing , took me by the arm and led me out . We went down - stairs , one behind another . Near the bottom some- body fell , and rolled down . Somebody else said ...
... gone . I was feeling for it in the window - curtains , when Steerforth , laughing , took me by the arm and led me out . We went down - stairs , one behind another . Near the bottom some- body fell , and rolled down . Somebody else said ...
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... gone indeed . The bill is down - but there is no tenant . Eligible single gentle- men pass and repass - but there is no invitation for them to inquire within or without . All is gloom and silence in the house ; even the voice of the ...
... gone indeed . The bill is down - but there is no tenant . Eligible single gentle- men pass and repass - but there is no invitation for them to inquire within or without . All is gloom and silence in the house ; even the voice of the ...
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... ll do it myself . Don't forget the bol- ster ! A halfpenny worth of milk , Mrs. Bouncer - and be good enough to let it stand - I wish the cream to accumulate . ( Exit . ) Mrs. B. He's gone at last ! I declare I 64 British Wit and Humor.
... ll do it myself . Don't forget the bol- ster ! A halfpenny worth of milk , Mrs. Bouncer - and be good enough to let it stand - I wish the cream to accumulate . ( Exit . ) Mrs. B. He's gone at last ! I declare I 64 British Wit and Humor.
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Página 131 - He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood. The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood. And burbled as it came!
Página 35 - And what does this allusion to the " slow coach " mean ? For aught I know, it may be a reference to Pickwick himself, who has most unquestionably been a criminally slow coach during the whole of this transaction, but whose speed will now be very unexpectedly accelerated, and whose wheels, gentlemen, as he will find to his cost, will very soon be greased by you ! But enough of this, gentlemen.
Página 129 - But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Página 34 - And now, gentlemen, but one word more. Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes indeed. These letters, too, bespeak the character of the man. They are not open, fervent, eloquent epistles, breathing nothing but the language of affectionate attachment. They are covert, sly...
Página 246 - You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin...
Página 248 - E carried me away To where a dooli lay, An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean. 'E put me safe inside, An' just before 'e died, "I 'ope you liked your drink,
Página 26 - Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain, you have woke me too soon, I must slumber again. If any young orphan will repeat the remainder of that simple piece from Doctor Watts's collection an eligible opportunity now offers.
Página 46 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child.
Página 128 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where -" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. - so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that,
Página 110 - Sweet, when they've cleared away Lunch ; and at close of day Possibly sweetest : I have a liking old For thee, though manifold Stories, I know, are told, Not to thy credit ; How one (or two at most) Drops make a cat a ghost — • Useless, except to roast — Doctors have said it : How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards : Go mad, and beat their wives ; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. Confound such...