United States or Christmas Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'I wish some wan would take me by the ear and lade me round to the ould shebeen, and set me down, and fill a noggen of whusky and make me dhrink it whether I would or no! Whether I would or no I have to drink the cup of self-denial," Crozier continued, "though Bradley and his gang have closed every door against me here, and I've come back without what I went for at Aspen Vale, for my men were away.
The word noggen originally meant made of hemp, and had come to signify any texture which was thick, rough, and clumsy. "Poor young gentleman!" exclaimed Mrs Lane. "What a condition for the King of England!" said the Colonel, indignantly. "Ay, truly," answered Lord Wilmot. "The disgrace is England's, not his own." Mr Lane was one of the party this evening.
"I saw him two days gone," added Lord Wilmot, "and a sorry sight he was: his dress a leather doublet, with pewter buttons; a pair of old green breeches and a coat of the same; his own stockings, the embroidered tops cut off; a pair of old shoes, too small for him, cut and slashed to give ease to his feet; an old, grey, greasy hat, without lining, and a noggen shirt of the coarsest linen."
'I wish some wan would take me by the ear and lade me round to the ould shebeen, and set me down, and fill a noggen of whusky and make me dhrink it whether I would or no! Whether I would or no I have to drink the cup of self-denial," Crozier continued, "though Bradley and his gang have closed every door against me here, and I've come back without what I went for at Aspen Vale, for my men were away.
Word Of The Day