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| American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own tables ; Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. " At last the people in a body To the town-hall came flocking... | |
| American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the oook'a own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking nfifty different sharps and flats." There is vast difference between the three writers ; the courtly... | |
| Caricatures and cartoons - 1849 - 590 pages
...vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladle*) ; Split open tbe kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats." K.ifs. that— in the opinions of wise men — are to the Church... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...from the cook's own ladles. Split open tho kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hata, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. III. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...the vats, And lieked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. "The Aldermen being threatened with mobs if they did not relieve... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...vats, Anil licked the soup from, the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking :... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles ; Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. * 'Tis dear," cried they, " our mayor's a noddy ; And as for our... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking :... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking :... | |
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