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'He's fresh, observed Mr. Buckram confidentially to Mr.
F. LANGBRIDGE. Crown 8vo. Buckram 3s. 6d. School Edition, 2s. 6d. 'A very happy conception happily carried out. These "Ballads of the Brave" are intended to suit the real tastes of boys, and will suit the taste of the great majority. Spectator. 'The book is full of splendid things. World. Edited by W.E. HENLEY. Messrs.
"You are going to change Minny's diet, and give him three ratafias soaked in a dessert-spoonful of cream daily?" "Quite wrong." "Well, then, Dr. Kenn has been preaching against buckram, and you ladies have all been sending him a roundrobin, saying, 'This is a hard doctrine; who can bear it?" "For shame!" said Lucy, adjusting her little mouth gravely.
The girls made one last frantic appeal to the man of buckram and pipeclay, but the etiquette of the Saxon Army was inexorable. It transpired that he might kill the hairdresser, but nothing else: he must not speak to him not even explain to the poor devil why it was that he was being killed. Her path of Usefulness. It did not seem quite worth it.
'I know'd that oss when Lord Bullfrog had him, nodding his head at our old friend as he spoke. 'The deuce you did! observed Mr. Waffles; where was that? 'In Leicestersheer, replied Mr. Buckram. 'I have a haunt as lives at Mount Sorrel; she has a little hindependence of her own, and I goes down 'casionally to see her in fact, I believes I'm her hare.
George a horseback Or the high Sheriff, shall make the Cuntrey people Fall downe in adoration of thy Crooper And silver stirrup, my right worshipfull. A pox a buckram and the baggage in't! Papers defil'd with Court hand and long dashes, Or Secretarie lines that stradle more Then Frenchmen and lesse wholsome to the Client.
He liked these little parties, in which a good deal of wine could be drunk, and at which ladies were not supposed to be very stiff. The Major and the Captain, and Mrs. Leslie and Lady Eustace, were such people as he liked, all within the pale, but having a piquant relish of fastness and impropriety. Dick was wont to declare that he hated the world in buckram.
Mahmoud Yusupli Khan himself is wearing one of these hats, and is attired in a tight-fitting suit of buckram, pipe-clayed from head to foot; in his hat glitters a handsome rosette of nine diamonds, which I have an opportunity of counting while seated beside him. He is a stoutish person, full-faced, slightly above middle age, less striking in appearance than many of his subordinates.
Buckram on the occasion of their deal or 'job, would bring him in the category of the unfortunates; still that representation was nearly, if not altogether, fabulous. That Mr.
A severe-looking person, who wears a Spanish cloak and a sad cheek, fluted by the passions of the melodrama, whom I understand to be the professional ruffian of the neighboring theatre, alluded, with a certain lifting of the brow, drawing down of the corners of the mouth, and somewhat rasping voce di petto, to Falstaff's nine men in buckram. Everybody looked up.
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