The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, 第 8 卷Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1906 |
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... honour could be long in choosing his party . " " Truly , sir , " replied the trooper , “ if ye speak this in the way of vituperation , as meaning to impugn my honour or genteelity , I would blithely put the same to issue , venturing in ...
... honour could be long in choosing his party . " " Truly , sir , " replied the trooper , “ if ye speak this in the way of vituperation , as meaning to impugn my honour or genteelity , I would blithely put the same to issue , venturing in ...
第22页
... honour , but also as a person of sense and prudence , one imbued with humane letters in his early youth , and who , from thenceforward , has followed the wars under the banner of the invincible Gustavus , the Lion of the North , and ...
... honour , but also as a person of sense and prudence , one imbued with humane letters in his early youth , and who , from thenceforward , has followed the wars under the banner of the invincible Gustavus , the Lion of the North , and ...
第23页
... honour of a cavalier , or the needful points of commanded duty . And truly , my lord , your noble proffer is not the less welcome , in that I knew not preceesely this night where I and my poor companion . ( patting his horse ) " were to ...
... honour of a cavalier , or the needful points of commanded duty . And truly , my lord , your noble proffer is not the less welcome , in that I knew not preceesely this night where I and my poor companion . ( patting his horse ) " were to ...
第25页
... honour . In especial , albeit the pay be none of the most superabundant , being only about sixty dollars a month to a ritt - master , yet the invincible Gustavus never paid above one - third of that sum , whilk was distributed monthly ...
... honour . In especial , albeit the pay be none of the most superabundant , being only about sixty dollars a month to a ritt - master , yet the invincible Gustavus never paid above one - third of that sum , whilk was distributed monthly ...
第27页
... honour must conceive to be double - pointed stakes , shod with iron at each end , and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an on- fall of the cavalry . The whilk Swedish feathers , although they look gay to the eye , resembling ...
... honour must conceive to be double - pointed stakes , shod with iron at each end , and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an on- fall of the cavalry . The whilk Swedish feathers , although they look gay to the eye , resembling ...
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第266页 - So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person Went on cutting bread and butter.
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第140页 - I know why you refuse— Though I've no feet, some other man Is standing in my shoes ! " I wish I ne'er had seen your face; But now, a long farewell ! For you will be my death ; alas I You will not be my Nell.
第61页 - we said, And we managed a shutter to borrow; [We raised him, and sighed at the thought that his head Would " consumedly ache " on the morrow. We bore him home, and we put him to bed, And we told his wife and his daughter To give him, next morning, a couple of red Herrings, with soda-water.
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