 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 508 pages
...Scotch, and thus to dissipate many of his odd prejudices against the Ings, his grnntinffs, his puffing*, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the eat Hodge and the negro Frank,—all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 504 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,...of orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputatious, his contortions, his mutter was decreed to him, he became acquainted with a young Scotchman,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst aulay Macaulay Lcvett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to ns as the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Literature - 1886 - 328 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,...ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his indolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levitt and blind Mrs. Williams,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...fish-sauce and veal-pic with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching tl.e posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gru tilings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick for ch has been accustomed to contemplate not things only, or for their own sake alone, but gnmtings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, anl ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 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 contor tions, his mutterings, his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie, his inextinguishable thirst for lea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, t his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, I his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Gregory - Bath (England) - 1888 - 170 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 9f treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,... | |
 | Authorship - 1889 - 308 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 scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings,... | |
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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... 
