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Updated: June 5, 2025
"The bank! you have grounded me on thorns." "Well, I'll tell ye: but you must promise faithful not to go and say I told ye, or you'll get me laad again: and I likes to laa them, not for they to laa me." "I promise, I promise." "Well then, I got a letter to-day from my boy, him as you was so good to, and here 'tis in my breeches-pocket.
Captain Branscome, of the threadbare coat and the sword of honour? Poor he was, no doubt bitterly poor poor almost to starvation at times. To what might not a man be driven by poverty in this degree? And here was evidence for judge and jury. I glanced around me, and, folding the eyeglasses together in a fumbling haste, slipped them into my breeches-pocket.
I weigh my words well when I assert, that the man who should know the true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other history, is likely, if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results, to have a truer, and therefore a better, conception of this wonderful universe, and of man's relation to it, than the most learned student who is deep-read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of Nature.
As he looked and looked, the tears started to his eyes, and with a gust of enthusiasm, little consonant with his temperate and philosophical character, he lifted his right hand from his black breeches-pocket, and burst into the following farewell to the metropolis of his native shores: "Farewell, my beloved London, farewell! Where shall I ever find a city like you?
Holland, under its new Stadtholder, is stanch of purpose, if of nothing else. Breeches-pocket MINUS most other requisites: alas, with such methods as you have, what can come of it? Royal Highness of Cumberland is a valiant man, knowing of War little more than the White Horse of Hanover does; certain of ruin again, at the hands of Marechal de Saxe. So think many, and have their dismal misgivings.
"Certainly not," replied Mr. Jorrocks, with great gravity, jingling the silver in his breeches-pocket. "It's an old saying, James, and times proves it true, that you may take an 'oss to the water but you carn't make him drink and talking of 'osses, pray, how are you off in that line?"
With Fort McHenry on his shoulders and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and the weight of a military department loading down his social safety-valves, I thought it a great deal for an officer in his trying position to select so very obliging and affable an aid as the gentleman who relieved him of the burden of attending to strangers. We left the Eutaw House, to take the cars for Frederick.
General Wool still walked the corridors, inexpansive, with Fort McHenry on his shoulders, and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and his courteous aid again pressed upon me his kind offices.
So, cute enough, the sargent begins to convarse him, an' it was not long until he had him sitting in Murphy's public-house, wid an elegant dandy iv punch before him, an' the king's money safe an' snug in the lowest wrinkle of his breeches-pocket.
I leave it to you in the name of that sacred justice which we all profess to venerate, and I ask you not to allow your passion or your prejudices to cloud your judgments not to allow the country to say that the Dublin juries are in the breeches-pocket of the Attorney-General.
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