 ... 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
 | Edmund Burke - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 536 pages
...the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name? — Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such a one — I beg a...how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.* Sir, in consequence of this arrangement, having put so much the larger part of his enemies... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...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,...together, heads and points, in the same truckle bed. Here is an exquisite bit of mock-epideictic. With the very pace and structure of its clauses, the passage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, — "Sir, your name?" — "Sir, you have the advantage of me." — "Mr. Such a one." — "I...how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. But just as naturally, Burke 's characterizations may come to life in a sudden cartoon,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...truckle under. "It did so happen that persons had a single office between them, that had never spoken to each other in their lives; until they found themselves,...how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed."— Edmund Burke, speech on American taxation (1774). dhreibh: drive. Gc, drift, snowdrift;... | |
 | George Thomas - 2006 - 444 pages
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