 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...doctors, (en lawyers, two counties, one earl, Ten councillors' wigs, full of powder and curl, All neaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candor and sense." !>3f Let Original Sentences be made, each containing one or more Numeral Adjectives. Def. 92i A Possessive... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1852 - 494 pages
...counterbalance ; it would not do. Things have their due weight only in the philosopher's apparatus — where " A lord and a lady went up at full sail When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale. " Late in October, my father left home for some time on business, and came back, as we thought, in... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 322 pages
...doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, — Ten counselors' wigs full of powder and cffrl, — All heaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candor and sense ; — And not mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh, — 'twas " the pearl... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...Nail : A Shield and a Helmet, a Buckler and Spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystalized tear. A Lord and a Lady went up at full sail, . When a Bee...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of Candour and Sense : A first water Diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good Potato... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...Nail : A Shield and a Ilelmet, a Buckler and Spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystalized tear. A Lord and a Lady went up at full sail, When a Bee...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of Candour and Sense : A first water Diamond, with brilliants begirt, Ttyin one good Potato... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...nail ; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weigh'd less than a widow's uucrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee...doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counsellor's wigs full of powder ami curl, All heap'd in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weigh'd... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, "Weighed less than a widow's +uncrystallized tea?. 9. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, "When a bee...doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counselors' wigs, full of powder and curl, All heaped in one balance and swinging from thence, Weighed... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...plough. A sword, with rich trappings, rose up in the scale, Though balanced by only a tenpenny nail. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a useful mechanic stepp'd into the scale. Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl — Ten counsellors'... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1859 - 964 pages
...plough, A sword with gilt trappings rose up. in the scale, Though balanced by only a tenpenriy nail. A lord and a lady went up at full sail When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale. Ten doctor?, ten lawyers, ten courtiers, one earl, Ten counsellors' wigs full of powder and curl. All heaped... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weigh'd less than a widow's +uncrystaliz'd tear. 9. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chano'd to light on the opposite scale; Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counselors'... | |
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A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale; Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counsellors... 
