The book of modern English anecdotes, ed. by T. HoodThomas Hood 1872 |
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第 24 頁 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
第 159 頁 - with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the other night, a strange profane story: of a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly consolation to a sick person; having finished, satisfactorily as he thought, and got out of the room, he heard the sick person ejaculate, ' Well, thank God, Pickwick will be out in ten days any way!
第 106 頁 - I'm to be di — di — dipped," now speaking furiously, with the voice of an injured man. " Oh yes, sir," the men replied, " we know that, we fully understood it," and for the third time down went Lamb into the sea.
第 38 頁 - and yet I did not hear a word of it ; but I went to sleep because I knew that about this time of day you would tell that story.
第 24 頁 - ... and not only did you murder him, whereby he was berea-ved of his life, but you did thrust, or push, or pierce, or project, or propell, the le-thall weapon through the bellyband of his regimen-tal breeches, which were his Majes-ty's!
第 124 頁 - The following anecdote will further illustrate his morbid sensibility to things which most people would deem insignificant. He had an appointment with a solicitor. They were to meet at a particular hour at a small inn in the city, where they might hope to be quiet and undisturbed. Mathews arrived at the trysting-place a few minutes too soon. On entering the coffeeroom, he found its sole tenant a commercial gentleman earnestly engaged on a round of boiled beef. Mathews sat himself down by the fire,...
第 132 頁 - Adam look'd when from the garden driven, And thus disputed orders sent from heaven ; — Like him I go, but yet to go am loth ; Like him I go, for angels drove us both : Hard was his fate, but mine still more unkind ; His Eve went with him, but mine stays behind.
第 36 頁 - As he did not attend the rehearsal of this odd concert, Foote desired Shuter would endeavour to find him out and bring him with him. Shuter was directed to some court in the Minories where this extraordinary musician lived...
第 146 頁 - ... the phrase would run thus : "I give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title, and claim, and advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away, as fully and effectually as I, said A.
第 68 頁 - could not the little one go through the big hole ?" " Egad," said Barrett, " and so she could ! But 1 never thought of that.