| John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...in Dunsinane wood ? There is a great deal of wood in the forest. Tables and chairs are made of wood. Each particular hair did stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. The German women have very fine hair. Charles James Fox was an English statesman. The fox is a cunning... | |
| 1869 - 646 pages
...whiskers, bat а соагзв, stubbly beard covered the lower part of hid countenance, of which every particular hair did stand on end "like quills upon the fretful porcupine." He was habited in auok trousers and Guernsey shirt, but the cap he wore had a gold baud to mark hie... | |
| William Davidson (B.A.) - 1873 - 174 pages
...own image in the water. — 8. Her feet disperse the powdery snow, that rises up like smoke. — 9. Each particular hair did stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine. 10. O'er our heads the weeping beech-tree streamed Its branches, arching like a fountain shower. 11.... | |
| 1853 - 510 pages
...sunburnt, sturdy fellow, sbout ten years old, with coarse features, and a bristly red head of hair, ' and each particular hair did stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine.' One sultry summer's day, while he was seated on a bank near the road-side, watching his flock with... | |
| Truman Joseph Spencer - 1891 - 538 pages
...knees smote together as the unearthly sound arose, his blood curdled in his veins, and on his head, "each particular hair did stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Prof. Plumtree was not a coward, by any means. He came of a line, who, for conscience's sake, had taken... | |
| Thomas Edgar Pemberton - 1893 - 350 pages
...in his confidence, and knowing all his villainies, the knotted and combined locks of the fur parted, and each particular hair did stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine, aghast at the terrible complications of his guilt. The rose-scented ruffian is always an accomplished... | |
| 1826 - 812 pages
...clapped his spectacles upon his nose, and his eyes " like stars did seem to start from their sockets, " . His knotted and combined locks did part, And each particular hair did stand erect, * Like quills upou the fretful porcupine." Those who have witnessed the representation of "... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1826 - 846 pages
...clapped his spectacles upon his nose, and his eyes " Like stars did seem to start from their dockets, His knotted and combined locks did part, And each particular hair did stand erect, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Those who have witnessed the representation of "The... | |
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