 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 516 Seiten
...unqualified ; but if he stuck in the passage, and could not force his way through it, the folding doors were immediately thrown open for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. . . . "In opposition to this society, there sprang up another, composed of scarecrows and skeletons,... | |
 | 1906 - 578 Seiten
...unqualified; but if he stuck in the passage, and could not force his way through it, the folding doors were immediately thrown open for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. In... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 Seiten
...door of a moderate size, and the other by a pair of folding-doors. If a candidate for this corpulent club could make his entrance through the first, he...for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. In... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 Seiten
...unqualified ; but if he stuck in the passage, and could not force his way through it, the folding doors were immediately thrown open for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. In... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1916 - 136 Seiten
...unqualified, but, if he stuck in the passage and could not force his way through it, the folding doors were immediately thrown open for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. 1... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 Seiten
...door of a moderate size, and the other by a pair of folding-doors. If a candidate for this corpulent club could make his entrance through the first, he...for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. In... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 Seiten
...door of moderate size, and the other by a pair of folding- 15 doors. If a candidate for this corpulent club could make his entrance through the first, he...for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of 20 fifteen persons, weighed above three tun.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 Seiten
...entrance through the first, he was looked upon as unqualified ; but if he stuck in the passage, and eoulit not force his way through it, the foldingdoors were...for his reception, and he was saluted as a brother. I have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three, ton.... | |
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If a candidate for this corpulent club could make his entrance through the first, he was looked upon as unqualified ; but if he stuck in the passage, and could not force his way through it, the folding-doors were immediately thrown open for his reception,... 
