Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... Norman ; no more of your hoaxes , or you and I shall quarrel . And , Mr. Walford , as to the rooms , you can have in ... Norman and Rickworth , both laughing heartily at some joke which Walford could not understand . This lasted about a ...
... Norman ; no more of your hoaxes , or you and I shall quarrel . And , Mr. Walford , as to the rooms , you can have in ... Norman and Rickworth , both laughing heartily at some joke which Walford could not understand . This lasted about a ...
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James Pycroft. NORMAN AND RICKWORTH . 175 At Mr. Walesby could not at first detect that there was more mischief , as well as dry humour in Norman , than in any five men in the College : so Norman was , on all occasions , the man most ...
James Pycroft. NORMAN AND RICKWORTH . 175 At Mr. Walesby could not at first detect that there was more mischief , as well as dry humour in Norman , than in any five men in the College : so Norman was , on all occasions , the man most ...
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... Norman took Walford to the Hall , ran his finger down the lecture lists , and found Wal- ford's name down with " the Slow Ten o'Clock ( Coach ) , " otherwise called " The Heavy Euri- pides ; " for , lectures were commonly called ...
... Norman took Walford to the Hall , ran his finger down the lecture lists , and found Wal- ford's name down with " the Slow Ten o'Clock ( Coach ) , " otherwise called " The Heavy Euri- pides ; " for , lectures were commonly called ...
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James Pycroft. NORMAN AND RICKWORTH . 177 He is one of the Scholars ; ' but Walesby does not approve of his goings on ... Norman and Rickworth . Just walk with us round the garden . It is a fine sunny morning — a saint's day - and ...
James Pycroft. NORMAN AND RICKWORTH . 177 He is one of the Scholars ; ' but Walesby does not approve of his goings on ... Norman and Rickworth . Just walk with us round the garden . It is a fine sunny morning — a saint's day - and ...
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... Norman in spectacles , on a camp - stool , sketching the President's house - always with a cat upon the chimney . See , he is sur- rounded by men who keep up a running fire of sharp - shooting repartee , while Norman gravely reads them ...
... Norman in spectacles , on a camp - stool , sketching the President's house - always with a cat upon the chimney . See , he is sur- rounded by men who keep up a running fire of sharp - shooting repartee , while Norman gravely reads them ...
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Page 93 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 206 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 69 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 225 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 13 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 85 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.