 They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins;— O never mortal suffered more In penance...  The Medical World - Page 1581886Full view - About this book
 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small. They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back By day-light, lest some rabid youth... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid youth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid youth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid youth... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins ! So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...her straight and tall; ' They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; i They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They...; O never mortal suffered more In penance for her sina. So, when my precious annt was done, My grandalre brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1851 - 320 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins ; — 0 never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1852 - 316 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid youth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1852 - 340 pages
...They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small ; They pinched...never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back ; (By daylight, lest some rabid youth... | |
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