| Sydney Smith - 1889 - Počet stránok 470
...I must leave the application to you. — [Taunton Speech, MRS. PARTINGTON. — I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop...and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vig. orously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's... | |
| Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - Počet stránok 444
...town ; the tide rose to an incredible height ; the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything wag threatened with destruction. In the midst of this...door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling the mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic... | |
| John Swinton - 1894 - Počet stránok 514
...there set in a great flood, and the tide rose, and the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm (so says Sidney Smith) Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - Počet stránok 452
...town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this...terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the bsach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the... | |
| John Swinton - 1895 - Počet stránok 576
...there set in a great flood, and the tide rose, and the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm (so says Sidney Smith) Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1896 - Počet stránok 414
...threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beacb, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens,...squeezing out the seawater, and vigorously pushing away tho Atlantic Ocean. The Atlanticwasroused; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you... | |
| 1898 - Počet stránok 232
...1824 there set in a great flood upon that town ; the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame P , who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house in mop and pattens, trundling her mop,... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - Počet stránok 472
...town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this...and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's... | |
| Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - Počet stránok 328
...rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime storm Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was...her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, and squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused.... | |
| W. V. Byars - 1901 - Počet stránok 616
...town, — the tide rose to an incredible height,— the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this...and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's... | |
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