 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 sivua
...him. Be the house large or siunll, paluce or pile of chip-hoxes, he must, when he goes out, he ahle to lock the door and put the key in his pocket; and when he Is in, thero must ho nothing ahout thu pile, care the ctuth, the Englishman, and the sky. But thongh the selfish... | |
 | 430 sivua
...the order of the day. When the company sat down to drink, it was usual for the hospitable landlord to lock the door, and put the key in his pocket ; and to leave the house sober was regarded as a reflection upon the entertainer. Sometimes the guests were... | |
 | Peter Roberts - 1901 - 338 sivua
...needed to keep the workings open. A mine is not like a factory, where a man can set all things in order, lock the door and put the key in his pocket and when he comes again at the end of a week, he finds all things undisturbed. No colliery can be so treated .... | |
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... may be for his weighty self, and his weightier spouse, to waddle up and down half a dozen flights of trap stairs, he will consent to have no family either in the floor above him, or in the floor under him. Be the house large or small, palace, or pile... 