The Comic Album: a Book for Every Table, Volume 1843W.S. Orr, 1843 - English wit and humor, Pictorial |
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... She is hardly to be called a Reader — a dipper would be the more correct appellation . When she has been all through it , her lap - dog knows exactly as much as she knows . She will sit in the park , watch the ducks. FOR EVERY TABLE .
... She is hardly to be called a Reader — a dipper would be the more correct appellation . When she has been all through it , her lap - dog knows exactly as much as she knows . She will sit in the park , watch the ducks. FOR EVERY TABLE .
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... called together , To consult how best the storm to weather ; And all day they sat In a learned chat , Upon this and that , And then they resolved at last , To meet the danger by loud bombast ; Or , in other words , to " cut it fat ...
... called together , To consult how best the storm to weather ; And all day they sat In a learned chat , Upon this and that , And then they resolved at last , To meet the danger by loud bombast ; Or , in other words , to " cut it fat ...
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... called to the country's good sense an appeal . THROWING HIMSELF UPON THE PUBLIC . It would n't do to appear fainthearted , So candidates everywhere they started , Who told of lies the usual tissue , But , alas ! without the expected ...
... called to the country's good sense an appeal . THROWING HIMSELF UPON THE PUBLIC . It would n't do to appear fainthearted , So candidates everywhere they started , Who told of lies the usual tissue , But , alas ! without the expected ...
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... called angrily upon an officer to take the cowardly assailant into custody . We , feeling no injury , and wishing to curry favour with a discerning public , rushed ( like a cat ) to the lights , and magna- nimously exclaimed - " Naked ...
... called angrily upon an officer to take the cowardly assailant into custody . We , feeling no injury , and wishing to curry favour with a discerning public , rushed ( like a cat ) to the lights , and magna- nimously exclaimed - " Naked ...
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... called " popular ; " and no author can be truly popular , in the usual sense of the word , unless his hair is in ringlets , and his neck free from the ordi- nary trammels of an every - day shirt - collar . Why an exposed throat should ...
... called " popular ; " and no author can be truly popular , in the usual sense of the word , unless his hair is in ringlets , and his neck free from the ordi- nary trammels of an every - day shirt - collar . Why an exposed throat should ...
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The Comic Album: A Book for Every Table (Classic Reprint) Alfred Henry Forrester No preview available - 2018 |
The Comic Album, 1844: A Book for Every Table (Classic Reprint) Alfred Henry Forrester No preview available - 2016 |
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