 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer intimates (old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank) — all are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pic with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring np scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his muttcrings,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish sauce and veal pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his sufferings, his vigorous, acute, ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his fits of tempestuous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orangc-pecl, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, hU muttcrings, his grnntings,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1878 - 444 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grantings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,... | |
 | 1879 - 348 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levet and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank —all are as familiar to us as the... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1880 - 442 pages
...and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as be walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntincs, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 640 pages
...and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as ho walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruutings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,... | |
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Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and... 
