 The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2461821Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, — that is lo say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to Iheir respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...lost in contemplation of the blue and white tiles with which the fire-places were decorated. . . . The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...Vrouw, to any question that was asked them. The parties broke up without noise or confusion. The guests were carried home by their own carriages ; that is...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. 16. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...Vrouw, to any question that was asked them. The parties broke up without noise or confusion. The guests were carried home by their own carriages ; that is...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. 16. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 pages
...chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings. The parties broke up without noise or confusion. The guests were carried home by their own carriages — that...excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. CHAMBERS S ADVANCED READER. Slm-pli'-ci-ty, lit. one-foldness. From Lat. sim-, the same, and... | |
 | Readers, American - 1889 - 466 pages
...seemed lost in contemplation of the blue and white tiles with which the fire-places were decorated. 4. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages—that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided for them, excepting such of the wealthy... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...pockets, nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English language - 1903 - 390 pages
...Beggars. Ilk SMACK still, did crack still, Just like a cadger's whip. 1809. IRVING, Hui. N. York, 171. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to...abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty SMACK. 1860. DICKENS, Uncom. Traveller, ' Titbull's Almshouses.' Heard the sound of a SMACK— a SMACK which... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...pockets, nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1893 - 400 pages
...bouncing out of the whale, like Harlequin through a barrel of fire. == ,-'-'> -. Etiquette of tbe Woblcsse The parties broke up without noise and without confusion....by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting TOOK LEAVE OF THEM WITH A HEARTV SMACK AT THE DOOR. such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.... | |
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