Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 99
... returned the bon vivant ; " but be wise , most noble pedlar , and take another rummer of this same flask , which you see I have held in an oblique position for your service - not permitting it to retrograde to the perpendicular . Nay ...
... returned the bon vivant ; " but be wise , most noble pedlar , and take another rummer of this same flask , which you see I have held in an oblique position for your service - not permitting it to retrograde to the perpendicular . Nay ...
Page 100
... returned Smith , " I prithee beware - thou knowest I can cut gullets as well as tickle them . ' " Ay , Will , " answered Ganlesse , carelessly ; " I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a Hogan - Mogan - a ...
... returned Smith , " I prithee beware - thou knowest I can cut gullets as well as tickle them . ' " Ay , Will , " answered Ganlesse , carelessly ; " I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a Hogan - Mogan - a ...
Page 106
... returned . It must be , he thought , the apartment of the revellers , now probably sleeping as soundly as their dependants still slumbered , and as he himself had done a few minutes before . Should he awaken them ? -To what purpose ...
... returned . It must be , he thought , the apartment of the revellers , now probably sleeping as soundly as their dependants still slumbered , and as he himself had done a few minutes before . Should he awaken them ? -To what purpose ...
Page 125
... returned . Even Bridgenorth's inflexi- bility seemed to be shaken ; and his voice was tremu- lous , as he answered , " Madam , I would to God I had the present means of relieving your great dis- tress , otherwise than by recommending to ...
... returned . Even Bridgenorth's inflexi- bility seemed to be shaken ; and his voice was tremu- lous , as he answered , " Madam , I would to God I had the present means of relieving your great dis- tress , otherwise than by recommending to ...
Page 132
... returned in his compa- ny . A deep blush , rapidly succeeded by deadly palenesss , and again by a slighter suffusion , show- ed plainly to her lover that his sudden appearance was any thing but indifferent to her . He bowed profoundly ...
... returned in his compa- ny . A deep blush , rapidly succeeded by deadly palenesss , and again by a slighter suffusion , show- ed plainly to her lover that his sudden appearance was any thing but indifferent to her . He bowed profoundly ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.