... (quoth Crambe) no man alive ever broke wind more naturally ; nay, he seemed to be mightily relieved by it." The rolling of the corpse down stairs made such a noise that it awaked the whole house. The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves !... The Orpheus C. Kerr [pseud.] Papers - Página 207por Robert Henry Newell - 1864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 páginas
...The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves ! but the landlord, in his shirt as he was, taking a candle in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other, ventured out of the room. The maid, with only a single petticoat, ran up stairs, but spurning at the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 páginas
...The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves ! but the landlord, in his shirt as he was, taking a candle in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other, ventured out of the room. The maid, with only a single petticoat, ran up stairs, but spurning at the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 412 páginas
...The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves ! but the landlord, in his shirt as he was, taking a candle in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other, ventured out of the room. The maid, with only a single petticoat, ran up stairs, but spurning at the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 páginas
...The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves ! but the landlord, in his shirt as he was, taking a candle in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other, ventured out of the room. The maid, with only a single petticoat, ran up stairs, but spurning at the... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1839 - 440 páginas
...stronger by degrees, until the door of the cellar opened, and then he saw a Don Quixote sort of a man, with a candle in one hand and a drawn sword in the other, poke his head in at the door of the cellar, and holding the candle a yard before him, say, " Is there... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 páginas
...The maid shrieked, the landlady cried out Thieves ! but the landlord, in his shirt as he was, taking a candle in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other, ventured out of the room. The maid, with only a single petticoat, ran up stairs, but spurning at the... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1860 - 406 páginas
...stronger by degrees, until the door of the cellar opened, and then he saw a Don Quixote sort of a man, with a candle in one hand and a drawn sword in the other, poke his head in at the door of the cellar, and holding the candle a yard before him, say, ' Is there... | |
| Richard Halkett - 1889 - 766 páginas
...same tale is illustrated by a drawing of a ferocious-looking individual in nightcap and dressing-gown, with a candle in one hand and a drawn sword in the other. The passage illustrated occurs at the end of the first chapter, where Julia's deception is discovered... | |
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