 | Illustrated readers - 1885 - 234 pages
...they are only copper varnished over.' ' What,' cried my wife,' not silver ! the rims not silver !' 1 No,' cried I, ' no more silver than your saucepan.'...take such trumpery. The blockhead has been imposed V. C upon, and should have known his company better !' ' There, my dear,' cried I, ' you are wrong... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...my wife; "not silver! the rims not silver!" "No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan." 14. "And so," returned she, "we have parted with the colt,...green spectacles with copper rims and shagreen cases ! The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better !" " There, my dear,"... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...are only copper varnished over." — "What," cried my wife, " not silver ! the rims not silver!" — "No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan."...— " And so," returned she, " we have parted with a colt, and have only got a gross of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases ! A murrain... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1886 - 248 pages
...only copper varnished over." — " What," cried my wife, " not silver, the rims not silver !" — " No," cried I, " no more silver than your saucepan."...blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better." — " There, my dear," cried I, "you are wrong, he should not have known them... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1886 - 328 pages
...wife, "not silver, the rims not silver! "—" No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan."—"And so," returned she, "we have parted with the colt,...blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better!"—"There, my dear," cried I, "you are wrong; he should not have known them at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 246 pages
...are only copper varnished over." — "What," cried my wife, "not silver! the rims not silver!" — "No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan."...blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better." — " There, my dear," cried I, " you are wrong, he should not have known them... | |
 | 1888 - 636 pages
...cried J, V ft y° u/i < 5L; \ ( \ ), (To be continued,} REPORTING STYLE. CHARLES JAMES FOX. v, ^ X \J "no more silver than your saucepan." — " And so,"...green spectacles with copper rims and shagreen cases IA murrain take such trumpery 1 Tne blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company... | |
 | 1888 - 196 pages
...are only copper varnished over. " "What 1 " cried my wife, " not silver ! the rims not silver 1 " " No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan."...returned she, " we have parted with the colt, and ha»e only got a gross of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen Moses and the Spectacles.... | |
 | A. L. Stronach - 1891 - 290 pages
...copper varnished over." — " What ! " cried my wife ; " not silver ! the rims not silver ! " — " No," cried I ; "no more silver than your saucepan."...spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases ! A murrain take3 such trumpery! The block 1 Sell his hen of a rainy day, sell at a of the shark or the sturgeon.... | |
 | Sara A. Hamlin - 1892 - 166 pages
...they are only copper varnished over.' 'What?' cried my wife, ' not silver ! the rims not silver? ' 'No,' cried I, ' no more silver than your saucepan.'...green spectacles with copper rims and shagreen cases ! The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better.' ' There, my dear,'... | |
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You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims, for they are not worth sixpence; for I perceive they are only copper varnished over." "What!" cried my wife, "not silver! the rims not silver!" "No," cried I, "no more silver than your... 
