Second Book for Teaching EnglishSiegfried Cronbach, 1911 - 176 páginas |
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Página 110
... Squire Jones . He has half a score of them ; and I am sure he will lend me one that will fit her . - Scrape .: You know , friend Derby , that no one is more willing to oblige his neighbours than I am . I do assure you , the beast should ...
... Squire Jones . He has half a score of them ; and I am sure he will lend me one that will fit her . - Scrape .: You know , friend Derby , that no one is more willing to oblige his neighbours than I am . I do assure you , the beast should ...
Página 113
... Squire Drawl . ― A sober occasion , this , brother Currie . Who would have thought the old lady was so near her end ... Squire Drawl told me she read every word of the will aloud , and never signed her name better . Swipes . w Had you ...
... Squire Drawl . ― A sober occasion , this , brother Currie . Who would have thought the old lady was so near her end ... Squire Drawl told me she read every word of the will aloud , and never signed her name better . Swipes . w Had you ...
Página 114
... Squire Drawl . ) Squire . Stop , stop , young man . We must have your presence . Good morning , gentlemen ; you are early on the ground . Cur . I hope the Squire is well to - day . - Squire . Swipes . ―― ―― lungs again . Squire . Pretty ...
... Squire Drawl . ) Squire . Stop , stop , young man . We must have your presence . Good morning , gentlemen ; you are early on the ground . Cur . I hope the Squire is well to - day . - Squire . Swipes . ―― ―― lungs again . Squire . Pretty ...
Página 115
... Squire . - Please to be seated , gentlemen . ( He puts In his spectacles , and begins to read slowly . ) " Imprimis ; whereas my nephew , Francis Millington , by his disobe- dience and ungrateful conduct , has shown himself unwor- thy ...
... Squire . - Please to be seated , gentlemen . ( He puts In his spectacles , and begins to read slowly . ) " Imprimis ; whereas my nephew , Francis Millington , by his disobe- dience and ungrateful conduct , has shown himself unwor- thy ...
Página 116
... Squire . " To have and to hold , in Trust , for the sole and exclusive benefit of my nephew , Francis Millington ... Squire . - There ; in two words of as good old English as I ever penned . Cur . ―― Pretty well too , Mr. Squire , if we ...
... Squire . " To have and to hold , in Trust , for the sole and exclusive benefit of my nephew , Francis Millington ... Squire . - There ; in two words of as good old English as I ever penned . Cur . ―― Pretty well too , Mr. Squire , if we ...
Términos y frases comunes
afraid Alfred answer beautiful Berlitz Schools black walnut Booking Clerk bread breakfast Britons brother child clothes coffee-house cold commissionnaire cried Czar Danes dear door dress Duhobret Duke of Newcastle Duke William England English EXERCISE eyes face fairy feel fellow gentleman give Goodall Guthrum happened Harold Hawk heard Hengist Hullo husband Jack Abbott kind King King Alfred King Harold King of Norway lady laugh leave letter Lewis look ma'am Majesty mare Mild mind morning Mortimer mother neighbour Derby never night Norman obliged Old Woman painter Pallinson Partridge person Peter Picts piece poor Porter Potiphar pupils replied sausage Saxons Scrape servant sleep soldiers soon speak Squire Stanmitz Street Swipes tell thalers thank things Thompson thought vang Vortigern walk weather wife window wish Xenophon Yessir
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Página 145 - And dost thou imagine, then, Partridge," cries Jones, "that he was really frightened?" "Nay, sir," said Partridge, "did not you yourself observe afterwards, when he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in the garden, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck dumb with sorrow, as it were, just as I should have been, had it been my own case? — But hush!
Página 147 - Little more worth remembering* occurred during the play, at the end of which Jones asked him, " Which of the players he had liked best? " To this he answered, with some appearance of indignation at the question, "The King, without doubt.
Página 77 - The barbarians (say they), on the one hand, chase us into the sea ; the sea on the other, throws us back upon the barbarians ; and we have only the hard choice left us, of perishing by the sword, or by the waves.
Página 147 - ... well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why...
Página 158 - I wiped my face with that ill-fated handkerchief, which was still wet from the consequences of the fall of Xenophon, and covered all my features with streaks of ink in every direction.
Página 145 - O la! what noise is that! There he is again. Well, to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it, I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are.
Página 145 - Partridge sat in fearful expectation of this; and now, when the ghost made his next appearance, Partridge cried out, " There, sir, now! what say you now? Is he frightened now, or no? As much frightened as you think me, — and to be sure, nobody can help some fears. I would not be in so bad a condition as what's his name, — Squire Hamlet, — is there, for all the world.
Página 145 - Partridge, did not you yourself observe afterwards, when he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in the garden, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck dumb with sorrow as it were, just as I should have been, had it been my own case? But hush ! O la ! what noise is that?
Página 144 - I know there is nothing in them ; not that it was the ghost that surprised me, neither ; for I should have known that to have been only a man in a strange dress; but when I saw the little man so frightened himself, it was that which took hold of me.
Página 143 - To which Partridge replied with a smile, ' Persuade me to that, sir, if you can. Though I can't say I ever actually saw a ghost in my life, yet I am certain I should know one, if I saw him, better than that comes to. No, no, sir, ghosts don't appear in such dresses as that, neither.