The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 19
... stand ! Jack . Oh hon , my back , I'm sairly wounded . Doctor . What ails your back ? Jack . There's a hole in't you may turn your tongue ten times round it ! Doctor . How did you get it ? Jack . Fighting for our land . Doctor . How ...
... stand ! Jack . Oh hon , my back , I'm sairly wounded . Doctor . What ails your back ? Jack . There's a hole in't you may turn your tongue ten times round it ! Doctor . How did you get it ? Jack . Fighting for our land . Doctor . How ...
Page 27
... stand confessed , upon the otherwise bare branches , and , dressed in their patent wind - and - water- proof coats , brave the utmost severity of the season , their hard , unpromising out- sides , compared with the forms of beauty which ...
... stand confessed , upon the otherwise bare branches , and , dressed in their patent wind - and - water- proof coats , brave the utmost severity of the season , their hard , unpromising out- sides , compared with the forms of beauty which ...
Page 37
... stand in need of every kind of comfort and accommoda- tion . The least thing puts them out of their way , and therefore every thing must be in its place . They are mightily of fended at disagreeable tastes and smells , and therefore ...
... stand in need of every kind of comfort and accommoda- tion . The least thing puts them out of their way , and therefore every thing must be in its place . They are mightily of fended at disagreeable tastes and smells , and therefore ...
Page 57
... Stand clear there ! Chariot , or a coach , sir ? No chariots , sir , and all the coaches are hired ! There's a coach here , sir - just below ! Coachman , draw up ! " and drawing up is impossible , and there is an incessant confusion of ...
... Stand clear there ! Chariot , or a coach , sir ? No chariots , sir , and all the coaches are hired ! There's a coach here , sir - just below ! Coachman , draw up ! " and drawing up is impossible , and there is an incessant confusion of ...
Page 87
... stand made of four rams ' horns , was brought out of the house , and elevated above his head , and he was compelled to pay a gallon of beer , and to drink out of the horn . She never heard how the usage originated ; it had been observed ...
... stand made of four rams ' horns , was brought out of the house , and elevated above his head , and he was compelled to pay a gallon of beer , and to drink out of the horn . She never heard how the usage originated ; it had been observed ...
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