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He spent a quarter's allowance in giving Buckram a single dinner; but he knew there was always pardon for him for extravagance in such a cause; and a ten-pound note always came to him from home when he mentioned Buckram's name in a letter. What wild visions entered the brains of Mrs.
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Buckram, 'only he's low; but you knows that the 'eight of an oss has nothin' to do with his size. Now this is a perfect dray-oss in miniature. An 'Arrow gent, lookin' at him t'other day christen'd him "Multum in Parvo." 'Let's have a look at him, replied Mr.
There is no collected edition to date, such as some of "our masters" have been provided with; no neat rows of volumes in buckram or half calf, putting forth a hasty claim to completeness, and conveying to my mind a hint of finality, of a surrender to fate of that field in which all these victories have been won. Nothing of the sort has been done for Mr. Henry James's victories in England.
Waffles. 'Ah! then he is the oss, in course, said Mr. Buckram, with a sort of mournful chuck of the chin; 'he is the oss, repeated he; 'well, then, he's a dangerous hanimal, added he, letting slip three half-crowns. 'What does he do? asked Mr. Waffles. 'Do! repeated Mr. Buckram, 'DO! he'll do for anybody. 'Indeed, responded Mr. Waffles; adding, 'how could Mr. Sponge sell me such a brute?
Sponge, throwing his right leg over Hercules' head and sliding from the saddle on to the ground, as if he were alighting from the quietest shooting pony in the world. All then was hurry, scurry, and scamper to get this second prodigy out. Presently he appeared. Multum in Parvo certainly was all that Buckram described him.
At the same time, in answer to the several petitions produced on that side, I showed one subscribed by the women of several persons of quality, humbly setting forth, "that, since the introduction of this mode, their respective ladies had, instead of bestowing on them their cast gowns, cut them into shreds, and mixed them with the cordage and buckram, to complete the stiffening of their under petticoats."
FALSTAFF "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." King Henry IV., Act II. Scene 4. By the time Salam had roused me from a dream in which I was being torn limb from limb in a Roman amphitheatre, whose terraced seats held countless Moors all hugely enjoying my dismemberment, I realised that a night in that guest-house would be impossible. The place was already over-populated.
I shall be the fourth! The fugitives are counting up like Falstaff's 'rogues in buckram. Are you ready to go now? We are leaving Mrs. Briscoe alone." He did not offer to assist her to rise. Somehow, he could resist aught, all, save the touch of that little hand. It brought back to him as nothing else the girl he had loved, and who had loved him. Oh, he was sure of it once!
Pons, for instance, after enduring the insolently patronizing looks of some bourgeois, incased in buckram of stupidity, sipped his glass of port or finished his quail with breadcrumbs, and relished something of the savor of revenge, besides. "It is not too dear at the price!" he said to himself. After all, in the eyes of the moralist, there were extenuating circumstances in Pons' case.
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