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... uncle Toby , whom all this while we have left knocking the ashes out of his tobacco - pipe . His humor was of that particular species devoted to the assistance merely of the in- which does honor to our atmosphere ; and I quisitive : -to ...
... uncle Toby , whom all this while we have left knocking the ashes out of his tobacco - pipe . His humor was of that particular species devoted to the assistance merely of the in- which does honor to our atmosphere ; and I quisitive : -to ...
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... uncle Toby as he went along ; -Amicus Plato , - that is , Dinah was my aunt ; -sed magis amica veritas , —but Truth is my sister . This contrariety of humors betwixt my father and my uncle , was the source of many a fraternal squabble ...
... uncle Toby as he went along ; -Amicus Plato , - that is , Dinah was my aunt ; -sed magis amica veritas , —but Truth is my sister . This contrariety of humors betwixt my father and my uncle , was the source of many a fraternal squabble ...
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... uncle Toby's dare not mention the name of the instru- character from his HOBBY - HORSE . CHAP . XXIV . IF I was not morally sure that the reader must be out of all patience for my uncle Toby's character , -I would here previously have ...
... uncle Toby's dare not mention the name of the instru- character from his HOBBY - HORSE . CHAP . XXIV . IF I was not morally sure that the reader must be out of all patience for my uncle Toby's character , -I would here previously have ...
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... uncle Toby mounted a friend or an acquaintance to step into the him with so much pleasure , and he carried house on any occasion , but he would take my uncle Toby so well , -that he troubled him by the hand , and lead him up stairs to ...
... uncle Toby mounted a friend or an acquaintance to step into the him with so much pleasure , and he carried house on any occasion , but he would take my uncle Toby so well , -that he troubled him by the hand , and lead him up stairs to ...
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... uncle Toby was involved , from the many found these terms ; so that you will the less discourses and interrogations about the wonder , if in his endeavors to explain them , siege of Namur , where he received his and in opposition to ...
... uncle Toby was involved , from the many found these terms ; so that you will the less discourses and interrogations about the wonder , if in his endeavors to explain them , siege of Namur , where he received his and in opposition to ...
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Adieu affair beds of justice betwixt breeches Bridget brother Toby Calais CHAP chapter continued Coxwould cried my father cried my uncle dear Sir Dendermond Devil door Eliza Eugenius eyes fancy Fleur give half hand head heart Heaven Honor horse kind King of Bohemia lady LAURENCE STERNE least letter Lillibullero look Lord Madam matter ment mind Monsieur mother Nampont nature never night nose Obadiah Paris pity poor postilion Prignitz quoth my father quoth my uncle Rambouilet ravelin reason replied Shandy side Slawkenbergius Slop Smelfungus soul spirit STERNE story Strasburg Susannah tell thee thing thou thought tion told took Toulouse town Trim's Tristram Tristram Shandy truth turn twas twill uncle Toby uncle Toby's Wadman whilst whole wife wish woman word write wrote Yorick
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Página 302 - He was sitting upon the ground, upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed.
Página 50 - Go," says he, one day at dinner, to an over-grown one, which had buzzed about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time, and which, after infinite attempts, he had caught at last as it flew by him. " I'll not hurt thee," says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room with the fly in his hand. " I'll not hurt a hair of thy head. Go," says he, liftin<* up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke to let it escape.
Página 177 - Thou art an excellent nurse thyself, Trim, — and what with thy care of him, and the old woman's, and his boy's, and mine together, we might recruit him again at once, and set him upon his legs. In a fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling, he might march. He will never march an...
Página 321 - Eternal fountain of our feeling! — 'tis here I trace thee, — and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me;" — not that. in some sad and sickening moments, " my soul shrinks back upon Herself, and startles at destruction !" — mere pomp of words ! — but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself; — all comes from thee, great, — great Sensorium of the world ! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground,- in the remotest desert of thy creation.
Página 142 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace?
Página 177 - There was a frankness in my uncle Toby, — not the effect of familiarity, — but the cause of it, — -which let you at once into his soul, and showed you the goodness of his nature. To this, there was something in his looks, and voice, and manner, superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him...
Página 177 - He shall not drop," said my uncle Toby, firmly. " A-well-o'day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point ; " the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G — ," cried my uncle Toby. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 176 - But he knows me not,' said he, a second time musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musketshot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Página 175 - Corporal. I think so too, said my uncle Toby. When the Lieutenant had taken his glass of sack and toast, he felt himself a little revived, and sent down into the kitchen, to let me know that, in about ten minutes, he should be glad if I would step up stairs. I believe...
Página 175 - I thought, said the curate, that you gentlemen of the army, Mr. Trim, never said your prayers at all. — I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it. — Are you sure of it? replied the curate. — A soldier, an...