 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pagina’s
...afterwards being laved iu bed, hee slept eight hours, and fasted all the while : which, when the king understood, he commanded him to be laid in the stocks,...with eating. Pompey the Great, Alexander the Great, Tamberlanc the (jreat, Carlemagne, or Charles the Great, for conquering kingdoms and killing of men... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 416 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving man turned him to the fire and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as he had laine bedrid with eating." ce— Edit. 1821—1. Iviii. swelly thair fouth of quhat drink... | |
 | 1833 - 448 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving man turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as he had laine bedrid with eating." pendious treit conceraand baith the new maneris and the auld of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the servingman turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold ; and afterwards, being laid in bed, ho slept eight hours, and fasted all the while ; which, when the knight understood, he commanded him... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the servingman turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as ho had lain bedrid with eating." In the time of George the First there was a man who, in a fit of... | |
 | Charles Hindley - 1873 - 696 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving-men turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...hours, and fasted all the while : which when the Knight under^ stood, he commanded him to be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long time as he had... | |
 | Charles Hindley - 1876 - 386 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving-men turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...with eating. Pompey the Great, Alexander the Great, Tambcrlane the Great, Charlemagne or Charles the Great, Arthur the Great : all these gat the title... | |
 | John Timbs - 1876 - 510 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving man turned him to the fire, and annotated his pouch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as he had laine bedrid with eating.' One of the most prodigious specimens of obesity, in our time,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the servingman turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as he had laine bedrid with eating.' In a bookpublished in 1823, under the title of Points of Humour,... | |
 | William Henry Long - 1886 - 192 pagina’s
...to turn bankrupt and break, but that the serving men turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter to make it stretch and hold...be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long a time as he had lain bedrid with eating." At Lord Wotton's he devoured 84 rabbits at one sitting,... | |
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... turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold ; and afterwards, being laid in bed, he slept eight hours, and fasted all the while ; which, when the knight understood, he commanded him to be laid... 
