 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - England - 1888 - 410 pages
...had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease. It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. The mowing operation required no glass, could be performed with almost reckless boldness, as one cannot... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - England - 1887 - 342 pages
...had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease. It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. The mowing operation required no glass, could be performed with almost reckless boldness, as one cannot... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 350 pages
...had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease. It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. The mowing operation required no glass, could be performed with almost reckless boldness, as one cannot... | |
 | American literature - 1892
...had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease. It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of which the proprietor wishes tc rid his countenance. The mowing operation required no glass, could be performed with almost reckless... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1912 - 274 pages
...writes instead 'a reaping machine which gathered the capillary harvest of the past twenty -four hours in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance.' 147. Of course, the authors of these two sample; aim in them at a certain humorous effect, and very... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...twisted into ' a reaping machine which gathered the capillary harvest of the past twenty-four hours ... in short, a lawnmower, for the masculine growth of...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance.' '' The above, of course, is facetious, and comical effects are often obtained by deliberate circumlocution... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1923 - 284 pages
...writes instead 'a reaping machine which gathered the capillary harvest of the past twenty-four hours ... in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of...which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance.' 147. Of course, the authors of these two samples aim in them at a certain humorous effect, and very... | |
 | Biology - 1950 - 668 pages
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... called, with the comb-like row of blunt teeth, leaving just enough of the edge free to do its work. But this little affair had a blade only an inch and a half long by three quarters of an inch wide. It had a long slender handle, which took apart for... 