 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1811
...ju«l ' mention the money at all ; and all possible • care must be taken to have this whole negoas when a barbarous mastiff attacks a man, he cries Poor cur, and is pulled down at last. So tlie earl's favour did but give strength to the creature to worry him. Herein he failed, 1. In joining1... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816
...whole negoas when a barbarous mastiff attacks a roan, he cries Poor cur, and is pulled down at lost. So the earl's favour did but give strength to the...his family, could ever be popular. And the plot went во far against him that he was within an ace of being accused of Godfrey's murder. But this was late.... | |
 | 1816
...care must be taken to have this whole negoas when a barbarous mastiff attacks a man, he cries 1'oor cur, and is pulled down at last. So the earl's favour...the bottom. 2. In thinking a lord treasurer, that bad enriched himself and his family, could ever be poptdar. Aud the plot went so far against him that... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816
...at all ; and all possible ' care must be taken to have this whole negoas »hen a barbarous mastilf attacks a man, he cries Poor cur, and is pulled down at last. 80 the rnrl's favour did but (five strength to the creature to worry him. Herein lie failed, 1. In... | |
 | Roger North - 1826
...was like a wolf by the ears ; he could neither hold it, nor let it go ; and, for certain, it bit him at last : just as when a barbarous mastiff attacks...cries poor cur, and is pulled down at last. So the earl s favour did but give strength to the creature to worry him. Herein he failed, 1. In joining to... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1870 - Počet stránok 576
...it was like a wolf by the ears : he could neither hold it nor let it go, and for certain it bit him at last, just as when a barbarous mastiff attacks a man, he cries ' poor cur,' and is pulled down at last."i The resolution of the Commons on the i yth of December, 1678, to impeach the Lord Treasurer,... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1881
...it was like a wolf by the ears: he could neither hold it nor let it go, and for certain it bit him at last, just as when a barbarous mastiff attacks...he cries 'poor cur/ and is pulled down at last."* The resolution of the Commons on the 19th of December, 1678, to impeach the Lord Treasurer, was followed... | |
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Gates, and accordingly endeavoured at it ; but it is plain that he had no command of the engine ; and, instead of his sharing the popularity of nursing it, he found himself so intrigued that it was like a wolf by the ears ; he could neither hold it nor... 