| R. Davis Benn - 1904 - 572 pages
...genius, with " his coat, his wig, his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked the...touching the posts as he walked ; his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel ; his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,... | |
| James Cotter Morison - 1904 - 712 pages
...signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, bis contortions,... | |
| 1905 - 408 pages
...too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his mid-night disputations, his contortions,... | |
| Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...his approbation of a good dinner, his appetite for fish-sauce and veal pie with plums, his insatiable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pages
...too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 pages
...his wig, his figure, his face, his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked the...approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the... | |
| William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pages
...too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and vealpie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 pages
...St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite...tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked ... all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Macaulay... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 pages
...St. Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite...tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked ... all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Macaulay... | |
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