Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... hand . Billy Duff , on the other hand , was of light and square build , but a very capable boxer . He fought a sturdy butcher once in the middle of Pall Mall , when the butcher , deceived by Duff's appearance , received a severe ...
... hand . Billy Duff , on the other hand , was of light and square build , but a very capable boxer . He fought a sturdy butcher once in the middle of Pall Mall , when the butcher , deceived by Duff's appearance , received a severe ...
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... hands , were always up to jokes of one kind or another . A confirmed joker of this sort , entering a music shop , was told by the proprietor that his assort- ment of instruments could not be beat . " I am sorry for that , " replied the ...
... hands , were always up to jokes of one kind or another . A confirmed joker of this sort , entering a music shop , was told by the proprietor that his assort- ment of instruments could not be beat . " I am sorry for that , " replied the ...
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... hand the miser has only left one : the prodigal has lived rich to die poor ; the miser has lived poor to die rich ; and , if the prodigal quits life in debt to others , the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself . More ...
... hand the miser has only left one : the prodigal has lived rich to die poor ; the miser has lived poor to die rich ; and , if the prodigal quits life in debt to others , the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself . More ...
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... hand , the only way in which money - lenders could extort a large rate of interest was by lending on post obits , by way of annuity , or on bills at short dates . In the latter case , the borrower had to purchase all imaginable articles ...
... hand , the only way in which money - lenders could extort a large rate of interest was by lending on post obits , by way of annuity , or on bills at short dates . In the latter case , the borrower had to purchase all imaginable articles ...
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... hands , and part on good terms , but my stock - in - trade is exhausted , and I am now completely used up . I have nothing left to tell them , and now I don't know what to do . " The greatest house for procuring loans and advances of ...
... hands , and part on good terms , but my stock - in - trade is exhausted , and I am now completely used up . I have nothing left to tell them , and now I don't know what to do . " The greatest house for procuring loans and advances of ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...