Philip Courtenay, Or, Scenes at Home and AbroadHurst and Blackett, 1855 |
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Strona 129
... quarters , I lay before the reader a Daguerreotype likeness of the commanding officer , who , in the temporary absence of Co- lonel Douglas , was ruling over the destinies of the gallant -th . Major Prowle was one of the greatest mar ...
... quarters , I lay before the reader a Daguerreotype likeness of the commanding officer , who , in the temporary absence of Co- lonel Douglas , was ruling over the destinies of the gallant -th . Major Prowle was one of the greatest mar ...
Strona 135
... quarters , I waited there in breath- less anxiety for the appearance of my servant , it being the first time that I found myself a master of one . In the mean time , I cast a look round my apartment , which was a tolerably- sized one ...
... quarters , I waited there in breath- less anxiety for the appearance of my servant , it being the first time that I found myself a master of one . In the mean time , I cast a look round my apartment , which was a tolerably- sized one ...
Strona 146
... quarter faster than the town . " 66 Exactly , Major , " chimed in Lieutenant Cludde . The dinner was now served , and a more melancholy repast I never sat down to ; scarcely a word was uttered , so awed were the whole party at the ...
... quarter faster than the town . " 66 Exactly , Major , " chimed in Lieutenant Cludde . The dinner was now served , and a more melancholy repast I never sat down to ; scarcely a word was uttered , so awed were the whole party at the ...
Strona 147
... quarters long , thighs let down very low . " " A most graphic description , " responded the Adjutant ; " but , with all those points , he is as slow as a top . " " And yet , " I continued , a little elated with the bumpers I had quaffed ...
... quarters long , thighs let down very low . " " A most graphic description , " responded the Adjutant ; " but , with all those points , he is as slow as a top . " " And yet , " I continued , a little elated with the bumpers I had quaffed ...
Strona 156
... quarters . With the race in hand , a smile of satisfaction came across the Adju- tant's countenance , as he exclaimed- " I won't make it a hollow thing . " 6 The odds , according to the old saying , were ' Lombard - street to a china ...
... quarters . With the race in hand , a smile of satisfaction came across the Adju- tant's countenance , as he exclaimed- " I won't make it a hollow thing . " 6 The odds , according to the old saying , were ' Lombard - street to a china ...
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Strona 65 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Strona 90 - ... the old familiar faces. Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces.
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Strona 90 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Strona 180 - British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; and a...
Strona 61 - Cruikshank, a Leech, or a Brown, could alone give a picture of this curious scene. The apartment was about five feet in breadth and ten in depth ; the floor was covered with a coarse showy-looking drugget ; the walls were distempered a bright amber colour ; a wooden stage-chandelier with four " dips " hung from the ceiling ; a lookingglass, from which a considerable quantity of the mineral fluid had escaped, a deal table, and a few ricketty chairs, formed the remaining furniture. From pegs in the...
Strona 125 - Bandana handkerchiefs that had never seen foreign parts, to be given away for an old hat ; London sparrows painted, as the coachmakers say, "yellow bodies," passed off as canaries, although "their native wood-notes wild" had never been heard out of the sound of Bow bells ; ill-shaped curs,
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