 Bigler, and Small. These celebrated contractors usually made more money during the session of the legislature at Harrisburg than upon all their summer work, and this winter had been unfruitful.  The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day - Strana 181podľa Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1901Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 766
...spirites ascentioun, Ne our materes that lien al fix adoun, VTown in our werking nothing us availle; ?or lost is all our labour and travaille, And all the cost a twenty devil way [s lost also, which we upon it lay. Ther is also ful many another thing, That is unto our craft apperteining,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 452
...spirites ascentioun, Ne our materes that lien al fix adoun, Mown in our werking nothing us availle; For lost is all our labour and travaille, And all...twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it lay. Ther is also ful many another thing, That is unto our craft apperteining, Though I by ordre hem nat... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1835 - Počet stránok 380
...lie all six adown, 225 May in our working nothing us avail, For lost is all our labour and travail, And all the cost, a twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it lay. 1 Shrewes — bad characters. 2 Disease — discomfort. 3 Thus was I, &c-— so was I once taught by... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1845 - Počet stránok 500
...matters that lie fixed below, may avail us in our working. For lost is all our labour and travail, And all the cost, a twenty devil way, Is lost also, which we upon it lay. There is also many another matter appertaining to our craft, though I cannot rehearse them in due order,... | |
 | 1854 - Počet stránok 168
...Hurt, injure. DER WORTH, 1840. Precious. DEVELYE, 265. The following lines will explain this word, " For lost is all our labour and travaille, " And all...twenty devil way " Is lost also which we upon it lay." Canterbury Tales, 16249. DINGE, 880. Struck forcibly. DONGENE, 1263. Struck. Whence the common saying... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - Počet stránok 650
...Gloss, in v. See also Du Cange in v. Jocrs PARTITUS. — Tyrwhitt. 1 Scales. 3 Stopping with clay. And all the cost a twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it lay. Ther is also ful many another thing, That is unto our craft apperteining, Though I by ordre hem nat... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1867 - Počet stránok 1072
...Glou. in T. See tljo r Cange in v. Jocus PARTITUS. — Tyrwhitt. 1 Scales. • 2 Stopping with clay. And all the cost a twenty devil way . Is lost also, which we upon it lay. Ther is also ful many another thing, That is unto our craft appertaining, Though I by ordre hem nat... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - Počet stránok 662
...lie all six adown, 225 May in our working nothing us avdil, For lost is all our labour and travdil, And all the cost, a twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it lay. There is also full many another thing 230 That is unto our craft appdrtaining, Though I by order them... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1870 - Počet stránok 676
...lie all six adown, 225 May in our working nothing us avail, For lost is all our labour and travail, And all the cost, a twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it lay. There is also full many another thing 230 That is unto our craft appertaining, Though 1 by order them... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1874 - Počet stránok 628
...Senate. It must wait for the next session. '28CHAPTER XLVIIL —In our werking, nothing us availle ; For lost is all our labour and travaille, And all...IT had been a bad winter, somehow, for the firm of Penny, backer, Bigler and Small. These celebrated contractors usually made more money during the session... | |
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