 ... on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell-mell, some here, some there, rolling over each other, whirling round and round upon their thin edges, taking frantic flights into the air, and playing all manner of...  The North British review - Page 741845Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charles Dickens - 1892 - 844 pages
...rampant than usual ever afterwards, and indeed, before Christmas, reared clean out of his crazy frame. It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...come up with a great heap of them just after venting his humour on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell-mell,... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 pages
...than usual ever afterwards, and indeed, before Christmas, reared clean out of its crazy frame. 11. It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...up with a great heap of them just after venting its humor on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away pell-mell, some... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1897 - 632 pages
...rampant than usual ever afterwards, and indeed, before Christmas, reared clean out of its crazy frame. It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...but this wind happening to come up with a great heap Ol them just after venting its humour on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that... | |
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 330 pages
...Sidney and Spenser we find little in the poetic literature of our language to detain our attention. 1 8. It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...vengeance on such poor creatures as the fallen leaves. 19. A baby was sleeping; Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild raging sea ; And... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 520 pages
...drowned in the ditches, perching on the trees.1 Here it is the night wind, sweeping round a church, 1 " It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...vengeance on such poor creatures as the fallen leaves ; bat this wind happening to come up with a great heap of them just after venting its humour on the... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 556 pages
...ale-house door such a cuff as it went, that the Blue Dragon was more rampant than usual ever afterward It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...up with a great heap of them just after venting its humor on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell-mell, some... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 pages
...ale-house door such a cuff as it went, that the Blue Dragon was more rampant than usual ever afterward It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...up with a great heap of them just after venting its humor on the insulted Dragon, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell-mell, some... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 250 pages
...Probably many recollect the passage from Martin Chuzzlewit of the wind and the dead leaves. " It was a small tyranny for a respectable wind to go wreaking...wind, happening to come up with a great heap of them, did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away pell-mell, some here, some there, rolling over... | |
 | Stewart Elliott Guthrie - 1995 - 335 pages
...throats."109 Signboards grin and clothes converse. even fallen leaves have both movement and intention: "It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...vengeance on such poor creatures as the fallen leaves, but . . . [it] did so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell-mell . . . taking frantic flights... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1994 - 836 pages
...rampant than usual ever afterwards, and indeed, before Christmas, reared clean out of its crazy frame. It was small tyranny for a respectable wind to go...so disperse and scatter them that they fled away, pell mell, some here, some there, rolling over each other, whirling round and round upon their thin... | |
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