| James Beresford - 1806 - 384 pągines
...their own ruin — which must obviously be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 2. (T.) After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...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 - 360 pągines
...their own ruin - which must obviously be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 2. (T.) After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...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 - 384 pągines
...their own ruin—which must obviously be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 2. (T.) After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...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 pągines
...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... | |
| James Beresford - 1826 - 350 pągines
...their own ruin — which must obviously be the direct consequence of their unintelligibility. 2. (T.) After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very...go the longest way round, and be too late at last ! — so that your whole account stands thus : — " Negatd tentat iter via; — Coetusque vulgares,... | |
| 1836 - 436 pągines
...!" " 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 pągines
...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... | |
| Walter Geikie - 1885 - 354 pągines
...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 pągines
...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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