 She is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in variety of suits every day new ; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once : but our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high...  Gurney Married: A Sequel to Gilbert Burney - Seite 163von Theodore Edward Hook - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1898 - 1034 Seiten
...variety of suits every day new, as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate, and if of high pirentage she does not so remember what she was by birth that she forgets what she is by... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 Seiten
...suits every day new, — as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once; but our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth that she forgets what she is by... | |
 | Isabella Beeton, Mrs. Beeton (Isabella Mary) - 2006 - 1134 Seiten
...variety of suits every day new, as if a gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and, if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is... | |
 | 1892 - 272 Seiten
...suits every day new ; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to bo used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate ; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is... | |
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