 | American poetry - 1920 - 1002 pages
...guess, 1 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,...fossil remains which she called her " affections," Ami that rather decayed but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling "her heart."... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 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, I had just heen selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, hy the gracious hestowal On myself,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 462 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,... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 336 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,...bestowal On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, And that rather decayed, but well known-work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling " her heart,"... | |
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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... 
