 ... enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name? Sir, you have the advantage...  The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1882 - Page 136by Republican Congressional Committee - 1882 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons." I venture to say it did...pigging together, heads and 'points, in the same' truckle-bed.' — Sp. on Amer. Tax. We cannot omit extracting the autograph note in which the King... | |
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