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Selections from the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions ... - Page 180
edited by - 1903 - 288 pages
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Antiquitates Curiosae: The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings ...

Joseph Taylor - 1819 - 174 pages
...customary) and receiving all the money due for the same, a spirited servant maid of the house, observing 21 them to be but slender-built animals, and in their...better to compass her design, she procured a very large black pudding, and, having way-laid them, she presented it at the breast of the foremost. The...
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The Brighton gleaner; or, General repository of literary ..., Volume 1

1822 - 494 pages
...authors have thought fit to conceal), and received all the money due for the same. A Virago servant, maid of the house, observing them to be but slender-built...; the better to compass her design, she procured a terrible great black-pudding, which (having way-laid them) she presented at the breast of the foremost...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 7

1853 - 748 pages
...authors have thought fit to conceal), and receiving all the money due for the same, a virago servant maid of the house observing them to be but slenderbuilt...their shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. The better to compass her design, she procured...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 pages
...Tailors make a Man." It happen'd ('tis no great matter in what year), that eight taylors, having finish'd considerable pieces of work at a certain person of...their shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the rood. The better to compass her desigu, she procured...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 pages
...Tailors make a Man." It happen'd ('tis no great matter in what year), that eight taylors, having finish'd considerable pieces of work at a certain person of...their shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. The better to compass her design, she procured...
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Tales, Sketches and Lyrics

Robert Jackson MacGeorge - 1858 - 284 pages
...and 1711, we are thus instructed :— " It happened ('tis no great matter when) that eight tailors having finished considerable pieces of work at a certain...compass her design, she procured a very terrible great black pudding, which (having waylaid them) she presented at the breast of the foremost. They, mistaking...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...house of a certain person of quality, (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal,) and reeeived all the money due for the same, a virago servant-maid...slender-built animals, and in their mathematical postures ou their shop-board appearing but so many pieees of men, resolved to encounter and pillage them on...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...house of a certain person of quality, (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal,) and received all the money due for the same, a virago servant-maid...slender-built animals, and in their mathematical postures on thoir shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, resolved to encounter and pillage them on the...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...house of a certain person of quality, (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal,) and received all the money due for the same, a virago servant-maid...compass her design, she procured a very terrible great black pudding, which, having waylaid them, she presented at the breast of the foremost. They, mistaking...
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American Notes and Queries, Volume 1

William Shepard Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1888 - 338 pages
...house of a certain person of quality (whose names authors have thought tit to conceal), and received all the money due for the same, a virago servant-maid...the house, observing them to be but slender-built animale, and in their mathematical postures on their shopboard appearing but so many pieces of men,...
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