The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and Tales to the Present Day, Selected for the Reading of Railway PassengersW.H. Smith and Son, 1850 - 192 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 41
Página 40
... main vorce , as a body may zaay . Then you'll vind out that tiz one thing to ha ' a good hoss , and another to know how to ride ' un . " THE NATIONAL ANTHEM . Much research has been bestowed in 40 RAILWAY ANECDOTE BOOK .
... main vorce , as a body may zaay . Then you'll vind out that tiz one thing to ha ' a good hoss , and another to know how to ride ' un . " THE NATIONAL ANTHEM . Much research has been bestowed in 40 RAILWAY ANECDOTE BOOK .
Página 42
... body of five hundred men , which would be augmented the following morning by two thousand horse . Had they fallen into the snare , it seems that all three would have been shot immediately on reaching the shore . Morland , however had ...
... body of five hundred men , which would be augmented the following morning by two thousand horse . Had they fallen into the snare , it seems that all three would have been shot immediately on reaching the shore . Morland , however had ...
Página 43
... body was embalmed ; but at the custom - house in the port where it was landed , the officer suspected smuggling , and insisted on opening it . They then recognised the features of the wife of their own clergy- man , who , having been ...
... body was embalmed ; but at the custom - house in the port where it was landed , the officer suspected smuggling , and insisted on opening it . They then recognised the features of the wife of their own clergy- man , who , having been ...
Página 46
... body for the present was denied burial ; yet , after the enemy left the place , he was by some Christians committed to the earth . " LUDICROUS BLUNDERS . General knowledge is unquestionably ne- cessary for the lawyer . Ludicrous ...
... body for the present was denied burial ; yet , after the enemy left the place , he was by some Christians committed to the earth . " LUDICROUS BLUNDERS . General knowledge is unquestionably ne- cessary for the lawyer . Ludicrous ...
Página 47
... body of the settler was found , with his skull fractured , and presenting every indication of having been for some time im- mersed in water . The overseer , who was in possession of the property of the deceased , and who had invented ...
... body of the settler was found , with his skull fractured , and presenting every indication of having been for some time im- mersed in water . The overseer , who was in possession of the property of the deceased , and who had invented ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ... Vista de fragmentos - 1853 |
The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ... Anonymous Sin vista previa disponible - 2023 |
The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ... Anonymous Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards answer appeared arrived asked became body brought called carried cause Charles course Court death died dinner door Duke England English entered exclaimed eyes father fire Foote French gave gentleman George give half hand head hear heard honour hope horse hour immediately John King known lady late leave length letter lived London look Lord lost manner master means mind morning never night observed occasion officers once original party passed person piece play poor present Prince received remained remarkable replied returned round seen sent shillings side soon story sure taken tell thing thought tion told took turned walk whole wife wish young
Pasajes populares
Página 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Página 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Página 62 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Página 37 - Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Página 2 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Página 177 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Página 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Página 111 - ... of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number of readers is at present so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works. In the reigns of William the Third, of Anne, and of George the First, even...
Página 64 - I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written
Página 150 - Howe's dining-room, where she generally sat and received her company ; and Salt, who believed Howe to be a bachelor, frequently recommended his own wife to him as a suitable match. During the last seven years of this gentleman's absence, he went every Sunday to St. James's church, and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat, where he had a view of his wife, but could not easily be seen by her. After he returned home...