English WitsLeonard Russell Hutchinson, 1953 - 349 pages |
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... person in the world I should like to know thoroughly , but I don't see any chance of it just at present , " Enough is as good as a meal . " I have been struck , too , by the way an aphorism of Oscar Wilde's will sometimes sum up a large ...
... person in the world I should like to know thoroughly , but I don't see any chance of it just at present , " Enough is as good as a meal . " I have been struck , too , by the way an aphorism of Oscar Wilde's will sometimes sum up a large ...
Page 232
... person but he would leave that person chuckling . At City dinners he laid about him with gusto : comparing them unfavourably , when one guzzler disgusted him by roaring for his meat , with a bear - garden , where the bear was brought to ...
... person but he would leave that person chuckling . At City dinners he laid about him with gusto : comparing them unfavourably , when one guzzler disgusted him by roaring for his meat , with a bear - garden , where the bear was brought to ...
Page 347
... person tumbling about like a cricket - ball on uneven ground , or a bowl rolling among nine - pins - casting off with the grace of a frisky Yorkshire cow , or going down the middle with the majesty of an overloaded hay - waggon passing ...
... person tumbling about like a cricket - ball on uneven ground , or a bowl rolling among nine - pins - casting off with the grace of a frisky Yorkshire cow , or going down the middle with the majesty of an overloaded hay - waggon passing ...
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