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Strana 7
... legs ; Long life to good King Cole ! With wine and cinnamon , ale and eggs , He filled a silver bowl ; C. He drained the draught to the very dregs , And he called that draught my whole ! PRAED . 18. My first is the terror of timid and ...
... legs ; Long life to good King Cole ! With wine and cinnamon , ale and eggs , He filled a silver bowl ; C. He drained the draught to the very dregs , And he called that draught my whole ! PRAED . 18. My first is the terror of timid and ...
Strana 13
... legs manages so ill , It only uses them when sitting still . J. C. HEATH . my first my second sat ; My third and fourth I ate ; -what's that ? He talked of daggers and of darts , Of passions and of pains , Of weeping eyes and wounded ...
... legs manages so ill , It only uses them when sitting still . J. C. HEATH . my first my second sat ; My third and fourth I ate ; -what's that ? He talked of daggers and of darts , Of passions and of pains , Of weeping eyes and wounded ...
Strana 23
... legs supply ; My whole , a rival of the fairest toast , When best you like it , then it suffers most . 69 . My first is a little dirty thing , My second is one end on't ; My whole is like many a poor wise man , On many a fool dependent ...
... legs supply ; My whole , a rival of the fairest toast , When best you like it , then it suffers most . 69 . My first is a little dirty thing , My second is one end on't ; My whole is like many a poor wise man , On many a fool dependent ...
Strana 41
... legs nor feet , yet swiftly run , And the more falls I get , move faster on . MRS . BARBAULD . There's not a bird that cleaves the sky With crest or plume more gay than I , Yet seldom I'm observed to fly Unless my wings are broken : You ...
... legs nor feet , yet swiftly run , And the more falls I get , move faster on . MRS . BARBAULD . There's not a bird that cleaves the sky With crest or plume more gay than I , Yet seldom I'm observed to fly Unless my wings are broken : You ...
Strana 61
... legs , a horse , or no horse ? 5. What is the difference between a cat and a comma ? 6. Why is tea like this riddle ? 7. What word is composed of three letters alone , Reads backwards and forwards the same ; Without speech it can make ...
... legs , a horse , or no horse ? 5. What is the difference between a cat and a comma ? 6. Why is tea like this riddle ? 7. What word is composed of three letters alone , Reads backwards and forwards the same ; Without speech it can make ...
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Strana 53 - What, of all things in the world, is the longest and the shortest, the swiftest and the slowest, the most divisible and the most extended, the most neglected and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little, and enlivens all that is great?
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Strana 11 - But still the lady shook her head, And swore, by yea and nay, My Whole was all that he had said, And all that he could say.