 | Thomas Sheridan - Authors, English - 1787 - 528 pages
...Reilly. This hufband of your's would fain have palmed a fine Lady upon me, all drefiVd out in filks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in fo." He then la.id hold of young mafter's fine laced hat; with his pen-knife ripped off the lace, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...This husband of yours would fain have " palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, " and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I " was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat ; with his penknife ripped off the lace, and... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 252 pages
...Reilly, this husband of your's would fain have palmed a finelady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's -fine laced hat, ripped off the lace with his penknife, and... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...; this husband of your's would fain have palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat, and with his pen-knife ripped off the lace,... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...Reilly. This husband of yours would fain have palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat ; with his penknife ripped off the lace, and... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...Reilly. This husband of yours would fain have palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat ; with his penknife ripped off the lace, and... | |
 | 1852 - 444 pages
...Reilly. This husband of yours would fain have palmed upon me a fine lady, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife ; but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat, with his penknife ripped up the lace, and... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...Reilly. This husband of your's would fain have palmed upon me a fine lady, all dressed out in silks and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so !" He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat, with his penknife, ripped up the lace, and... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...This husband of yours would just now have palmed off a fine lady upon me, dressed out in silks and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." The political satire embodied in his Gulliver's Travels is full of a delicate, quiet irony on... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1872 - 434 pages
...There she is before you." " Impossible! I always heard Mrs. Riley was a prudent woman; she never would dress herself out in silks and ornaments only fit...folding it up in several papers, put it in the fire; wheu burnt sufficiently, he took it out and wrapped it in fresh paper, and put it iu his pocket. He... | |
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This husband of yours would fain have palmed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode, for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so." He then laid hold of young master's fine laced hat ; with his penknife ripped off... 
