The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and Tales to the Present Day, Selected for the Reading of Railway Passengers |
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... mind him ; but the chap was so very comical that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork , and fairly laugh it out . He was irresistible . " BRIEF ABSTINENCE . A bon - vivant being observed by a friend , who had not seen him for a ...
... mind him ; but the chap was so very comical that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork , and fairly laugh it out . He was irresistible . " BRIEF ABSTINENCE . A bon - vivant being observed by a friend , who had not seen him for a ...
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... mind by saying to the Count , " General Lord Hill is now Com- mander - in - Chief of the British forces . " THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE Have never been incompatible with the gifts of genius , or the investigations of the under- standing ...
... mind by saying to the Count , " General Lord Hill is now Com- mander - in - Chief of the British forces . " THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE Have never been incompatible with the gifts of genius , or the investigations of the under- standing ...
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... mind of a story of the Gunpowder Plot . The Lord Chamberlain was sent to examine the vaults under the Parliament House , and , re- turning with his report , said , " he had found five - and - twenty barrels of gunpowder ; that he had ...
... mind of a story of the Gunpowder Plot . The Lord Chamberlain was sent to examine the vaults under the Parliament House , and , re- turning with his report , said , " he had found five - and - twenty barrels of gunpowder ; that he had ...
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... mind to be a witness , too ? You can't , for you are a party concerned . " JOY OF GRIEF . A Highland funeral used to be followed by a regular supper to the company , and a ball . Upon one occasion , the gentleman who was to lead down ...
... mind to be a witness , too ? You can't , for you are a party concerned . " JOY OF GRIEF . A Highland funeral used to be followed by a regular supper to the company , and a ball . Upon one occasion , the gentleman who was to lead down ...
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... mind to have a plum - pudding on his birthday , and busied himself a whole morning in giving minute directions to prevent the chance of a mishap ; yet , after all the pains he had taken , and the anxiety he must have under- gone , the ...
... mind to have a plum - pudding on his birthday , and busied himself a whole morning in giving minute directions to prevent the chance of a mishap ; yet , after all the pains he had taken , and the anxiety he must have under- gone , the ...
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Page 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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...