 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 sivua
...the visage or countenance had not a nose, pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then 1 253. Upon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm. 254. To speak of nothing else, the arrival of the English in her father's dominions must have appeared... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm : the hands made an ineffectual effort to continue their course : the wheels remained motionless with surprise : the... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 sivua
...complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, tho dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,) changed...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length, the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1837 - 256 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm : the hands made an ineffectual effort to continue their course: the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the... | |
 | C. Adams - 1838 - 180 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate, (if we may credit the fable,)...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 sivua
...one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial25 5 plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the 10 dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 sivua
...one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial25 5 plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance...member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the 10 dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,... | |
 | 1839 - 428 sivua
...any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm, the hands made an ineffectual effort to continue their course, the wheels remained motionless with surprise, the weights... | |
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An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,)... 
