 ... had to submit to. Sheridan had been paying a hurried visit to the house at Wanstead in which Tom and his tutor lived : " It was a severe frost, and had been long, when he came one evening to dine, after his usual manner, on a boiled chicken, at 7,...  Memoir of Mr. Sheridan - Side 23af William Smyth - 1840 - 74 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Margaret Oliphant - 1883 - 216 sider
...after hia usual manner, on a boiled chicken, at 7, 8, or 9 o'clock, just as it happened, and had hardly drunk his claret, and got the room filled with wax...being on the ice, that he would certainly be drowned, etc., and that he begged it of me as the greatest favour I could do him in some way or other to prevent... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1883 - 234 sider
...after his usual manner, on a boiled chicken, at 7, 8, or 9 o'clock, just as it happened, and had hardly drunk his claret, and got the room filled with wax...being on the ice, that he would certainly be drowned, etc., and that he begged it of me as the greatest favour I could do him in some way or other to prevent... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1886 - 464 sider
...down from town to dine on a boiled chicken ' at seven, eight, or nine o'clock, just as it happened ;' he had scarcely drunk his claret and got the room...wax lights, without which he could not exist, when a VOL. I. 26 sudden panic about his son Tom and the ice (there was a hard frost at the time) seized... | |
 | 1886 - 646 sider
...down from town to dine on a boiled chicken " at seven, eight, or nine o'clock, just as it happened ; " he had scarcely drunk his claret and got the room...wax lights, without which he could not exist, when a sudden panic about his son Tom and the ice (there was a hard frost at the time) seized him. Tom would... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1895 - 738 sider
...after his usual manner, on a boiled chicken, at 7, 8, or 9 o'clock, just as it happened, and had hardly drunk his claret, and got the room filled with wax...being on the ice, that he would certainly be drowned, etc., and that he begged it of me as the greatest favour I could do him in some way or other to prevent... | |
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