 There is great fun in groping through a tall barrel of books and pamphlets, on the look-out for startling pictures ; and there are chestnuts in the garret drying, which you have discovered on a ledge of the chimney ; and you slide a few into your pocket,...  Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons - Seite 40von Ik Marvel - 1851 - 286 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ik Marvel - 1883 - 320 Seiten
...company " in the garret to be disturbed by the noise. There is no crotchety Uncle, or Grand-Mamma, with their everlasting " Boys, boys ! " and then a...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins ; and in such guise to steal cautiously down-stairs,... | |
 | 1886 - 528 Seiten
...through a tall barrel of books and pamphlets, on the lookout for startling pictures; and there arc chestnuts in the garret drying, which you have discovered...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins, and in such guise to steal cautiously down-stairs, and... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1891 - 300 Seiten
..." company" in the garret to be disturbed by the noise. There is no crotchety Uncle, or GrandMamma, with their everlasting "Boys, boys!" and then a look...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins ; and in such guise to steal cautiously down-stairs,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1892 - 306 Seiten
..." company" in the garret to be disturbed by the noise. There is no crotchety Uncle, or GrandMamma, with their everlasting " Boys, boys ! " and then a...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins ; and in such guise to steal cautiously down-stairs,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1893 - 256 Seiten
...startling pictures ; and there are chestnuts in the garret drying, which you have discovered on the ledge of the chimney; and you slide a few into your...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins ; and in such guise to steal cautiously down-stairs,... | |
 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - 1902 - 328 Seiten
...keep silent — for you have great fear of its being forbidden fruit. Old garrets have their stock of castaway clothes of twenty years gone by ; and...trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped head-gear, and ancient brocade petticoat caught up with pins ; and in such guise to steal cautiously downstairs, and... | |
 | M. Halley, Leonard Lemmon - 1903 - 244 Seiten
...Nelly, and begging her to keep silent — for you have a great fear of its being forbidden fruit. 7. Old family garrets have their stock, as I said, of...buttoning in a pillow or two for the sake of good fullness; and then to trick out Nelly in some strange-shaped headgear, and oldfashioned brocade petticoat... | |
 | Catherine Turner Bryce, Frank Ellsworth Spaulding - 1914 - 360 Seiten
...and you slide a few into your pockets, and munch them quietly. Old family garrets have their stock of castaway clothes of twenty years gone by; and it...buttoning in a pillow or two for the sake of good fullness. — DONALD G. MITCHELL (lit MARVEL) (In Reveries of a Bachelor) This is a splendid description... | |
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