 | James Beresford - 1806 - 384 pàgines
...which they have palpably invented for the sole purpose of guarding against the smallest risk of beingi by any accident, understood ; — and thus is a new...supposing that you are just arriving at the door you want — looking up, and seeing the words " ATo thoroughfare !" stare you in the face. Sen. Yes; — not... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 384 pàgines
...your own indignation at their distorted ingenuity in devising stratagems for their own ruin—which must obviously be the direct consequence of their...order to go the longest way round, and be too late at last!—so that your whole account stands thus:— " Negatd tentat iter via;— Coetusque vulgares,... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 246 pàgines
...their own ruin -rwhich must obviously be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 2.(T.) After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...you are just arriving at the door you want — " No Thorough "fen. Not to mention the Misery of turning back, splashing along at full speed, and fighting... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pàgines
...!" " Set corners, ladies, if you have any bowels !" " Right and left — or I'ma dead man !" &c. &c. After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...you are just arriving at the door you want — " No THOROBtriiFAttE." Walking through the streets, side by tide with a cart containing a million of iron... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pàgines
...with so much spirit a* to fore* your leg and foot through the muslin drapery of your fair partner. After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...think a shorter cut, and supposing that you are just ariving at the door you want—' NO THOROUGHFARE ! ' Stopping in the street to addresss a person whom... | |
 | James Beresford - 1856 - 202 pàgines
...stratagems for their own ruin, which must be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 5. After walking in a great hurry to a place on very...go the longest way round, and be too late at last ! 4. Stopping in the street to address a person whom you know rather too well to pass him without speaking,... | |
 | Walter Geikie - 1885 - 354 pàgines
...discretion, must have tasted, in the course of his experience, of the following provoking misery : " After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...cut, and supposing that you are just arriving at the point you want," you suddenly run your head against a high wall, or an iron gate, and, on looking up,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 pàgines
...with so much spirit as to force your leg and foot through the muslin drapery of your fair partner. After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...arriving at the door you want — " NO THOROUGHFARE!" Stopping in the street to address a person whom you know rather too well to pass him without speaking,... | |
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Stopping in the street to address a person whom you know rather too well to pass him without speaking, and yet not quite well enough to have a word to say to him — he feeling himself in the same dilemma — so that... 