 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 páginas
...that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a vlop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease — be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. BTDHKT SMITH. 64... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. WIT. WHEN wit is combined with sense and information ; when it is softened by benevolence and restrained... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 páginas
...but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease ; be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. 4. " Poor Indians... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 408 páginas
...was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest." HAS A CAT NINE LIVES? The conceit that a cat has nine lives, has cost at least nine lives in ten of... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1873 - 302 páginas
...but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease, be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington." I have mentioned a... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 páginas
...but I need not tell you that tho contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest." — Speeches. FRANCIS JEFFREY (b. 1773, d. 1850) was, as we have seen, one of the originators of the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 662 páginas
...was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest." THE LAW'S DELAY. When the first cargo of Ice was imported into this country from Norway, — there... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 páginas
...up ; but I need not tell you the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle ; but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease; be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington." At a time when a nation's... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 páginas
...but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease — be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. They tell you, gentlemen,... | |
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Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be at your ease — be quiet... 
