Cucumber Chronicles: A Book to be Taken in Slices

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S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887 - 229 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 109 - Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalms, To make the heart full glad ; But had it been poor David's fate To hear thee sing, and them translate— By Jove, 'twould have drove him mad.
Strana 96 - rattling weather glasses, shaking compasses as if they were physic, catching up keys with loadstones, looking through telescopes, endeavouring to make himself acquainted with the use of the globes, setting parallel rulers astride on to his nose, and amusing himself with other philosophical transactions.
Strana 160 - the cat, the kettle-holder, the two canaries, the old china, the punch-bowl full of dried rose-leaves, the tall press guarding all sorts of bottles and pots, and wonderfully out of keeping with the rest.
Strana 98 - converted the little dressing-table into a species of altar, on which he set forth two silver teaspoons, a flower-pot, a telescope, his celebrated watch, a pocket-comb, and a song-book, as a small collection of rarities that made a choice appearance
Strana 201 - after having seated himself, trimmed the boat with his coachman, who being a very sober man, always serves as ballast on these occasions.
Strana 210 - merrily the fountain leaped and danced, and merrily the smiling dimples twinkled and expanded more and more. until they broke into a laugh against the basin's rim and vanished
Strana 101 - such a radiant cook as the captain looked in the height and heat of these functions ; it being impossible to say whether his face or his glazed hat shone the brighter.
Strana 176 - owing to the way the tobacco leaf is shredded, coupled with the fact that it is brought into more direct relation with the mouth and air passages than when it is smoked in a pipe or cigar, the effects produced on the nervous system by a free consumption of cigarettes are
Strana 82 - looked ever since I have known him, and as he looked, I imagine, many years before I had the pleasure of making his acquaintance : " With his quadrant at his round black knob of an eye, and its figure in the old attitude of indomitable alacrity, the midshipman displayed his elfin small clothes to the best advantage, and, absorbed in scientific pursuits, had no sympathy with worldly concerns.

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