 She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber ; who affirm that they have no pleasure in winning; that they like to win one game, and lose another...  Modern English Prose - Página 429editado por - 1904 - 481 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | F. W. Bockett - 1901 - 302 páginas
...your opportunity for testing your eleven fellowpassengers. You reply, " Ah ! sir, just the night for a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." Ten to one your remark will fall as flat as would a cornet solo at a Monday Pop. But, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. ' ibid A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Mrs. Sattle't Cpiniont on Whitt. Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony ; but organically I am incapable... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 386 páginas
...all, my masters ! MRS BATTLE•S OPINIONS ON WHIST " A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour ./"V of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old...God) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 páginas
...masters ! MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST. CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game."1 This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now...God) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 páginas
...and a merry New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters ! MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST. " A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." /X This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now with God) who, next to her devotions, loved... | |
 | John Rogers - 1903 - 116 páginas
...bell-pull — Marys eyes following him the while — stammering to himself as he crosses the room) : — " A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game — Oh, Martin, Martin, if dirt were trumps, what a hand you'd hold ! " (To the maid who has answered... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 páginas
...and a merry New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters ! MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST " A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." /i. This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now . with God) who, next to her devotions, loved... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 páginas
...indication of his method will be found in the following extracts from Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. " A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the...God), who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half-andhalf players, who have no objection... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 páginas
...VII. MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST "A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth,1 and the rigour of the game." 5 This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now...God), who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - 656 páginas
...Lamb found the original of Sarah Battle ; but he may have superimposed some alien characteristics. "'A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of...God), who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection... | |
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