 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...1170. ** Tour in Derbyshire, by Thomas Browne, ton of Sir Thomas. wheatcars, and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw...and opened a bazaar under the trees. In one booth the politician might find his coffee and the London Gazette; in another were gamblers playing deep... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...farmers came from the neighboring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears, and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw...voluptuaries sick of the airs of actresses and maids of honor. Milliners, toymen, and jewelers came down from London, and opened a bazar under the trees. In... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...farmers came from the neighbouring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw...was a refreshing pastime to voluptuaries sick of the aira of actresses and maids of honor. Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London, and opened... | |
 | 1888 - 668 pages
...of Tunbridge Wells in 1685:— " To chafer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw hata and tight heels, was a refreshing pastime to voluptuaries...sick of the airs of actresses and maids of honour." — Vol. i. chap. iii. JOHN PICKFOKD, MA, Newbourno Rectory, Woodbridge. CHURCH LIBRARIES (6th S. iv.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...tight heels, was a refreshing pastime to voluptuaries sick of the airs of actresses and maids of honor. Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London,...and opened a bazaar under the trees'. In one booth the politician might find his coffee and the London Gazette ; in another were gamblers playing deep... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pages
...farmers came from the neighbouring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw hats and tight heels, Avas a refreshing pastime to voluptuaries sick of the airs of actresses and maids of honour. Milliners,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...farmers came from the neighbouring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears, and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw...a politician might find his coffee and the London Gazette ; in another were gamblers playing deep at basset; and, on fine evenings, the fiddles were... | |
 | 1888 - 564 pages
...Tunbridge Wells in 1685:— " To eho/er with them, to flirt with them, to praise their «(raw hate and tight heels, was a refreshing pastime to voluptuaries sick of the airs of actresses and maida of honour." — Vol. i. chap. iii. JOHN PICKFORD, MA Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. CHURCH LIBRARIES... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 546 pages
...farmers came from the neighbouring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears, and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their straw...a politician might find his coffee and the London Gazette ; in another were gamblers playing deep at basset^ and, on fine evenings, the fiddles were... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1854 - 298 pages
...one part of the common to another. During the season a kind of fair was held daily near the fountain. Milliners, toymen, and jewellers, came down from London, and opened a bazaar under the trees. Tn one booth, the politician might find his coffee and the ' London Gazette ;' in another, were gamblers... | |
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During the season a kind of fair was daily held near the fountain. The wives and daughters of the Kentish farmers came from the neighbouring villages with cream, cherries, wheatears, and quails. To chaffer with them, to flirt with them, to praise their... 
