 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of. I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...fossil remains which she called " her affections." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam, nor starbeam, by fountain or grove,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear ! I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted iu styling " her heart. " So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam or starheam,... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 550 pages
...guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear ! 1 should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...rejections, Of those fossil remains, which she called "her affoctiona," And that rather decayed but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear ! I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...the shade, by the gracious bestowal On myself, after thirty or twenty rejections, Of those fossil remains, which she called " her affections," And that... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear ! I should mention just here, that out of eye ; Tears of our anguish may not tell When thou...wert a vision of delight, To bless us given ; Beauty call'd her " affections," And that rather decay'd, but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted... | |
 | John Hamer - American wit and humor - 1883 - 338 pages
...less, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear I I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...which she called " her affections," And that rather decay'd, but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling "her heart." So we were... | |
 | Ermine Owen - Readers - 1891 - 306 pages
...less, That she " had not a thing in the wide world to wear." I should mention jnst here, that ont of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...thirty rejections Of those fossil remains, which she termed her affections. Well, having thus wooed Miss McFlimsy and gained her, With the silks, crinolines... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of. I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...fossil remains which she called " her affections." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam, nor starbeam, by fountain or grove,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of. I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...fossil remains which she called "her affections." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam, nor starbeam, by fountain or grove,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 468 pages
...thought of, Or milliner, modiste, or tradesman be bought of. I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,...fossil remains which she called " her affections." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam, nor starbeam, by fountain or grove,... | |
| |
And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear! I should mention just here, that out of Miss Flora's Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers, I had just been selected as he who should throw all The... 
