 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pagine
...proof against my extreme déshabille. The situation, as revealed by the sudden light of the lantern, was no doubt supremely ludicrous, but was not precisely...occur to me at the time, but I have my suspicions, tliat those innocent damsels were privy to the catastrophe, and had, of malice prepense, unsettled... | |
 | 1859 - 1036 pagine
...proof against my extreme deshabille. The situation, as revealed by the sudden light of tho lantern, was no doubt supremely ludicrous, but was not precisely...kind of spectacle for the contemplation of female ¡rienda nnd they were repelled accordingly. It did not occur to me at the time, but I have my suspicions,... | |
 | 1879 - 594 pagine
...some other day what could be done in the way of piecing up a smaller kite out of them. ' Of course it did not occur to me at the time, but I have often thought since, with admiration, of the way in which both Alick and Mary behaved. Many a one in... | |
 | 1859 - 948 pagine
...was proof against my extreme '•ille. The situation, as revealed by the sudden light of the lantern, was no doubt supremely ludicrous, but was not precisely...were privy to the catastrophe, and had, of malice }>re¡>cnse, unsettled the foundations of the couch." This incident strongly reminds us of some of... | |
 | John H. Espey - 2023 - 380 pagine
...wondered how I could be thought in any way to meet the standards set up by the committee on awards. It did not occur to me at the time, but I have occasionally felt since that if some of these Shanghailanders had known about Sons and Lovers they... | |
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was, no doubt, supremely ludicrous, but was not precisely the kind of spectacle for the contemplation of female friends, and they were repelled accordingly. It did not occur to me at the time, but I have my suspicions that those innocent damsels were... 