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Updated: April 30, 2025

Please send some one up to cut off a few stones." I went on with my part, and then, during a wait, two of Mrs. Nettleship's assistants came on to the stage and snipped off a jewel here and there. When they had filled a basket, I began to feel better! But when they tried to lift that basket, their united efforts could not move it! On one occasion I wore a dress made in eight hours!

Ellen Terry - The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

I suppose that it was satisfied that its companion was in good hands, for it trotted happily away, and did not appear upon the scene again. In your article on Mr. Nettleship's pictures of animals, you note the delicacy of a dog that has been properly trained in the matter of taking its food.

Various - Dog Stories from the "Spectator": being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power,: affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the: correspondence columns of "The Spectator"

I was in two minds what to do; but I noticed the bookkeeper's lip was cut, and there was dried blood on Mr. Nettleship's knuckles, and it didn't seem good enough. I saw they had begun on Tom first, and that decided me to take water with my formality. "Walk in," says I. They didn't wait for a second asking, and a minute later were poking and rummaging all through the place.

Lloyd Osbourne - Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas

He said I had talked for effect and that talking for effect was precisely what one must never do; he had always hated rhetoric and emphasis and had made me hate it; and his anger plunged me into great dejection. I called at Nettleship's studio the next day to apologise and Nettleship opened the door himself and received me with enthusiasm.

W. B. (William Butler) Yeats - Four Years

Denry's hand, in clasping the bottle, had hidden a small label, which said: "POISON Nettleship's Patent Enamel-Cleaning Fluid. One wipe does it." Confusion! Only Nellie Cotterill seemed to be incapable of realising that a grave accident had occurred. She had laughed throughout the supper, and she still laughed, hysterically, though she had drunk scarcely any wine. Her mother silenced her.

Arnold Bennett - The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

In some senses drainage, therefore, has a decided effect upon the spiritual life of men and women. Everyone probably will remember Dr. Nettleship's resolute assertion, that "even a stomach-ache could be a spiritual experience."

Giberne Sieveking - Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman