 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers (Elementary) - 1920 - 424 pages
...you give too much for your whistle." If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine 5 houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, , "Alas!" say I, "he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." When I see a beautiful,... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - History - 1921 - 720 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. " If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. " When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - Readers - 1924 - 560 pages
...you give too much for your whistle." If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, "Alas!" say I, "he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." In short, I conceive that... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Elizabeth F. Hague, Mary Chalmers, Marie A. Kelly - Conduct of life - 1928 - 424 pages
...yourself instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle." If I see one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...I, "he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." In short, I conceived that a great part of the miseries of mankind was brought upon them by the false... | |
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I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle. 
