 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pages
...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsafe to stand upon. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the sains boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask,...Such-a-one, I beg a thousand pardons.' I venture," he continued, " to say, it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them, who... | |
 | Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 366 pages
...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on ; the colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name!'" Amongst those, I think, who would have been foremost to object, was THOMAS EVANS (mentioned in the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand or. Tl c colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name? — Sir, you hare the advantage ^f me — Mr. Such a one — I beg a thousand pardons — " J^enture to say, it... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such a one — I beg a thousand pardons — " I venture to say, it...single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives; until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together,... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to...name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such a one — I beg a thousand pardons — " I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues •whom he assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask,...a single office divided between them who had never spoke to each other in their livea until they found themselves (they knew not how) pigging together,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 656 pages
...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsafe to stand upon. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, 'Sir, your name?' 'Sir, you have the ad vantage of me.' 'Mr. Soch-a-one, I beg a thousand pardons.' I venture," he continued, " to say,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to...single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives ; until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same ere not more shy of a heathentemple, or of meat offered to idols, nor the Jews of swine's flesh, than spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask,...— "Sir, you have the advantage of me." — "Mr. Sucha-onc." — "I beg a thousand pardons." — I venture to say, it did so happen that persons had... | |
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... black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.... 
