Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 21, 2025
I think he was, without exception, the most clumsy and stupid boy I have ever come across; and that is saying a good deal. His mother undertook that for three-and-sixpence a week he should "make himself generally useful" to us for a couple of hours every morning. Those were the old lady's very words, and I repeated them to Amenda when I introduced the boy to her.
Buckram, muttering to himself in apparent calculation, 'standin' at livery three-and-sixpence a night, grum, and so on I wouldn't mind, continued he briskly, 'givin' of you twenty pund for 'im if you'd throw me back a sov., continued he, seeing Mr. Waffles' brow didn't contract into the frown he expected at having such a sum offered for his three-hundred-guinea horse.
I could have done it better myself; three-and-sixpence! it's only fit to be played at football with." "I will take no less for it, young gentlewoman; it has caused me a world of trouble." "I never saw a worse mended kettle. I say, brother, your hair is white." "'Tis nature; your hair is black; nature, nothing but nature."
"At last, we were quartered in Limerick at the time, every morning used to bring accounts of all manner of petty thefts in the barrack, one fellow had lost his belt, another his shoes, a third had three-and-sixpence in his pocket when he went to bed and woke without a farthing, and so on. Everybody save myself was mulet of something.
She took Alice up to see her trousseau, and gave the other expectant bride some little hints which, under present circumstances, might be useful. "Yes, indeed; only three-and-sixpence a piece, and they're quite real. Feel them. You wouldn't get them in the shops under six." Alice did feel them, and wondered whether her aunt could have saved the half-crown honestly.
He was standing in rather a moping attitude by the tiny window; but at sight of his mother he flew to her. "Mother, Anne says I'm to have new shoes. Have you got them? I am so glad." No, she could not disappoint her boy. A sudden idea darted through her brain. She would ask Miss Mitchell, the drawing-room boarder, to lend her the three-and-sixpence which the little shoes would cost.
No doubt he gave some early signs of intellectual promise, for which it was not thought the army provided a fit sphere, for the Duke of Argyle is reported to have said to his father when he was only twenty: "My lord, I like your son: this boy must not be shot at for three-and-sixpence a day." He paid his first visit to London in 1760; and, having heard a good deal about Johnson from one Mr.
The Father's voice, her father's, the Marshalsea's father's. He was seated in his black velvet cap, with his newspaper, three-and-sixpence accidentally left on the table, and two chairs arranged. Everything prepared for holding his Court. 'Ah, Young John! How do you do, how do you do! 'Pretty well, I thank you, sir. I hope you are the same. 'Yes, John Chivery; yes. Nothing to complain of.
She did not say, "God only knows how we shall find bread to eat next week;" she merely said, wiping away her tears, "We can't afford to live here any longer. It's too expensive for us now that father's gone." And they went to live in a slum for three-and-sixpence a week.
I certainly enjoyed the case at first a good deal, and amused myself with twiddling round the movable calendar. But this pleasure wore off. The jewel, as I said, was not paid for, and Hawker, a large and violent boy, was exceedingly unpleasant as a creditor. His constant remark was, "When are you going to pay me that three-and-sixpence? What sneaks your relations must be? They come to see you.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking