| James Madison Watson - 1880 - 352 pagina’s
...because you're old and obese,3 To find in the furry civic 4 robe ease ? Rouse up, sirs ! Give yp.ur brains a racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing ! " i 1 NSd'dy, a simpleton ; a fool. 8 O bese', very fat ; fleshy. 2 Dolt, a heavy, stupid fellow... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're sate in counsel, At length the Mayor broke silence: "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell; I wish... | |
| James D. McCabe - 1884 - 956 pagina’s
...For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing 1 " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin I Yon hope, because yon'rc old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease ? Rouse up, sirs t Give your bruine a racking To And the remedy we're lacking, / Or, sore as fate, well rend yon packing... | |
| Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pagina’s
...that can't or won't determine " What 's best to rid us of our vermin ! " You hope, because you 're old and obese, " To find in the furry civic robe ease...! Give your brains a racking " To find the remedy we 're lacking, " Or, sure as fate, we 'll send you packing ! " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pagina’s
...and obese, To flnd in the furry civic robe ease f Rouse up. Sirs ! Give your brains a racking To flnd the remedy we're lacking. Or, sure as fate, we'll...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV. An hour they sate in counsel — At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pagina’s
...in the furry dvio robe ease ? 690 691 To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll seud you packing!" At this, the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in counsel — At length the mayor broke silence: " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown I wish I... | |
| George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine what's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, to find in the furry civic robe ease...Corporation quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council, at length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell ; I wish... | |
| Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ? You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease...! " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with mighty consternation. IV. An hour they sate in counsel, At length the Mayor broke silence ; " For a... | |
| Frederick William Hackwood - 1883 - 224 pagina’s
...people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : "Tis clear,' cried they, 'our mayor's a noddy.'... At this the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council ; At length. ..what should hap At the chamber door but a gentle tap?... ' Come in !... | |
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