The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... exclaimed , rubbing his hands , “ Well , come what may , I have two hundred verbs well con- jugated in my desk ! " ABLUTION — a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in ...
... exclaimed , rubbing his hands , “ Well , come what may , I have two hundred verbs well con- jugated in my desk ! " ABLUTION — a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in ...
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... exclaimed the Sul- taness " you were born to be lucky , for you have not only de- rived life from your mother's stomach , but from your bro- ther's ! " ABSOLUTION , SELF - generously pronouncing our own pardon . Such is the power in the ...
... exclaimed the Sul- taness " you were born to be lucky , for you have not only de- rived life from your mother's stomach , but from your bro- ther's ! " ABSOLUTION , SELF - generously pronouncing our own pardon . Such is the power in the ...
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... exclaimed an auditor- " that is a great distance : it must have been accom- plished when the days were longest . " - " To be sure it was ; I admit that , " cried the ingenious Hibernian . ADVICE - Almost the only commodity which the ...
... exclaimed an auditor- " that is a great distance : it must have been accom- plished when the days were longest . " - " To be sure it was ; I admit that , " cried the ingenious Hibernian . ADVICE - Almost the only commodity which the ...
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... exclaimed the latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I ...
... exclaimed the latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I ...
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... exclaim with the celebrated artist , " Ed io anche sono Pittore . " Although the word be derived from the two first letters of the Greek , every ALPHABET now in use may be traced with historical certainty to one original - the Phenician ...
... exclaim with the celebrated artist , " Ed io anche sono Pittore . " Although the word be derived from the two first letters of the Greek , every ALPHABET now in use may be traced with historical certainty to one original - the Phenician ...
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