 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 324 页
...Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, il succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 338 页
...he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 686 页
...Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that...dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel's, aud I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 页
...reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless for me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 104 页
...* Pronounced Cal-ewï-ras. and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that...the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decaying mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression... | |
 | John Hamer - 1903 - 362 页
...he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated... | |
 | California Teachers Association - 1911 - 600 页
...Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me. If that...the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angels, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 页
...would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long 1o and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1920 - 456 页
...he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded. I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the old, dilapidated... | |
| |
Smiley is a myth that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me... 
