 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 530 pages
...rain'd,thunder'd, lighten'd, and hail'd Interjections, verbs, pronouns, till language quite fail'd To express the abusive ; and then its arrears Were...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for шу hat, too ; Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the... | |
 | John Hamer - American wit and humor - 1883 - 334 pages
...rain'd, thunder'd, lighten'd, and hail'd Interjections, verbs, pronouns, till language quite fail'd To express the abusive ; and then its arrears Were...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat, too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1888 - 742 pages
...relief; But this only proved as a spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder; It blew and it rained, thundered, lightened and hailed...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat, too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...But this only proved as a spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder ; It blew and it rained, thundered, lightened, and hailed...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat, too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | Ermine Owen - Readers - 1891 - 306 pages
...relief. But this only proved as spark to the powder. And the storm I had raised came faster and louder. It blew and it rained, thundered, lightened and hailed...Were brought up all at once by a torrent of tears. Well, I felt for the lady, and 1 felt for my hat, And without going through the form of a bow, Found... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...: But this only proved as spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder ; It blew, and it rained, thundered, lightened, and...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too. Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 406 pages
...relief: But this only proved as spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder; It blew, and it rained, thundered, lightened, and...a tempest of sobs, Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...relief; But this only proved as spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder ; It blew, and it rained, thundered, lightened, and...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too. Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | William Allen Butler - Bookbinding - 1899 - 270 pages
...But this only proved as a spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder ; It blew and it rained, thundered, lightened, and hailed...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat, too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
 | R. L. Paget (pseud.), Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1899 - 416 pages
...: But this only proved as spark to the powder, And the storm I had raised came faster and louder ; It blew, and it rained, thundered, lightened, and...a tempest of sobs. Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too, Improvised on the crown of the latter a tattoo, In lieu of expressing the feelings... | |
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To express the abusive, and then its arrears Were brought up all at once by a torrent of tears; And my last faint, despairing attempt at an obsErvation was lost in a tempest of sobs, Well, I felt for the lady, and felt for my hat too, Improvised on the... 
