 Your worships may understand, that, because I have no safer a store-house, these pockets do serve me for a room to lay up my goods in ; and though it be a strait prison, yet it is big enough for them...  The Quarterly Review - Page 448edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1814 - 434 pages
...a law was made against them) : he, for his excuse, drawed out of his slops the contents ; as first, a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, and a comb, with night-caps and other things of use, saying, ' Your worships may understand, that,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 424 pages
...(for a law was made against them): he, for his excuse, drawed out of his slops the contents; as first, a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, and a comb, with night-caps and other things of use, saying, ' Your worships may understand, that,... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...wearing the prohibited article ;" upon which, in order to refute the accusation, he produced from within "a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, nightcaps," and a complete miscellany of other auxiliaries. In a note to the reprint of S. Rowland's... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...prohibited article ;" upon which, in order to refute the accusation, he produced from within "a pairof sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, nightcaps," and a complete miscellany of other auxiliaries. In a note to the reprint of S. Rowland's... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pages
...(for a law was made against them:) he, for his excuse, "drawedout of his slops the contents, as first, a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass and a comb, with night-caps and other things of use, saying, ' your worships may understand, that,... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...(for a law was made against them) : he, for his excuse, drew out of his slops the contents ; at first a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, and a comb ; with nightcaps and other things of use, saying, " Your worship may understand, that because... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...who proved that he had used no one of the cloths named in the law, by showing that he used, instead, a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, night-caps, &c. &c. Sometimes a fashion originates in the effort to hide some deformity. Thus the long... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 460 pages
...who proved that he had used no one of the cloths named in the law, by showing that he used, instead, a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, night-caps, &c., &c. Sometimes a fashion originates in the effort to hide some deformity. Thus the... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 512 pages
...them that the stuffing was not composed of any prohibited article, inasmuch as it consisted merely of a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, and a nightcap ! Well, indeed, did these wonderful sacks deserve their name of trunk liose ! In those... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 508 pages
...them that the stuffing was not composed of any prohibited article, inasmuch as it consisted merely of a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, and a nightcap ! Well, indeed, did these wonderful sacks deserve their name of trunk hose ! In those... | |
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