American Notes and Queries, Nide 5William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris W.S. and H.C. Walsh, 1890 |
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... tell me if there ever was an Englishman chosen as Pope ? J. R. M. POINT PLEASANT , N. J. Only one , Nicholas Breakspeare ; he took the title of Adrian IV . His death was rather a curious one ; it was caused by being choked by a fly ...
... tell me if there ever was an Englishman chosen as Pope ? J. R. M. POINT PLEASANT , N. J. Only one , Nicholas Breakspeare ; he took the title of Adrian IV . His death was rather a curious one ; it was caused by being choked by a fly ...
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... tell me whether slang was a proper Can any of name , or a common noun . your correspondents explain the origin and meaning of the word ? A. FORRESTER . PHILADELPHIA , PA . Blue Nosed .-- Can you tell me why Presbyterians are sometimes ...
... tell me whether slang was a proper Can any of name , or a common noun . your correspondents explain the origin and meaning of the word ? A. FORRESTER . PHILADELPHIA , PA . Blue Nosed .-- Can you tell me why Presbyterians are sometimes ...
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... telling with eggs is in vogue in Northumberland on the eve of St. Agnes . A maiden desirous of knowing what her future lord is like is enjoined to boil an egg , after having spent the whole day fasting and in silence ; then to extract ...
... telling with eggs is in vogue in Northumberland on the eve of St. Agnes . A maiden desirous of knowing what her future lord is like is enjoined to boil an egg , after having spent the whole day fasting and in silence ; then to extract ...
Sivu 14
... tell where it pinches . " From this incident is said to have come the saying , " where the shoe pinches . " As a sign of respect the Japanese , when they meet in the street , take off their slip- pers . This custom almost universally ...
... tell where it pinches . " From this incident is said to have come the saying , " where the shoe pinches . " As a sign of respect the Japanese , when they meet in the street , take off their slip- pers . This custom almost universally ...
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... tell me what a " cummerbund " is ? Within a few days I found the word used in a description of some young Englishman's foolhardy examination of the crocodile pits of Maäbdeh , Egypt , which could be entered only by a downward leap of ...
... tell me what a " cummerbund " is ? Within a few days I found the word used in a description of some young Englishman's foolhardy examination of the crocodile pits of Maäbdeh , Egypt , which could be entered only by a downward leap of ...
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Sivu 63 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Sivu 46 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away ! What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns...
Sivu 46 - What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death ! where is thy Sting?
Sivu 46 - Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!
Sivu 39 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Sivu 293 - We soon observed, that in talking to one another we lost several of our words, and could not hear one another at above two yards' distance, and that too when we sat very near the fire.
Sivu 29 - Who comes with summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand Can health, wealth and long life command.
Sivu 179 - WHEN Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation — 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) — A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called " gravitation ; " And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.
Sivu 124 - And for myself, besides my yearly allowance, I would have twenty gowns of apparel, six of them excellent good ones, eight of them for the country, and six other of them very excellent good ones.
Sivu 233 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London...