I come to think on it, meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for you may mean to stick things together and your glue may be bad, and then where are you? And so I says to mysen, 'It isn't the meanin', it's the glue. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe - Page 61by George Eliot - 1899 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1866 - 808 pages
...meant right, and the bride and bridegroom meant right. But then, when I came to think on it, mean ing goes but a little way i' most things, for you may...together and your glue may be bad, and then where are you ? ' " Mr. Macey's doubts, however, are set at rest by the parson after tti^r service, who assures him... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...mean, speaking o' toads and such ; for they're often harmless, and useful against varmin. — o — Meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for...together and your glue may be bad, and then where are you ? Janiwary, to be sure, 'sa unreasonable time to be married in, for it isn't like a christening or... | |
| George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 pages
...eaten, and the crowd went homo to digest the trick played on them all. SCRAPS FROM SILAS MARNER. ' goes but a little way i' most things, for you may...together, and your glue may be bad, and then where are you ? THERE'S folks now-a-days know what happened afore they were born better nor they know their own business.... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...mean, speaking o' toads and such ; for they 're often harmless, and useful against varmin. — o — Meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for...together and your glue may be bad, and then where are you ? Janiwary, to be sure, 'sa unreasonable time to be married in, for it isn't like a christening or... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 742 pages
...was allays uncommon for turning things over and seeing all round 'em ; and I says to myself, ' Is't the meanin' or the words as makes folks fast i' wedlock...your glue may be bad, and then where are you? And so 1 says to mysen, ' It isn't the meaning', it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...other folks have on him. There 'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.3 Meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for...and your glue may be bad, and then where are you? 3 There's reasons in things as nobody knows on — that's pretty much what I've made out ; though some... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 564 pages
...meanin' goes but a little way i' most things, for you may mean to stick things together and your ghie may be bad, and then where are you ? And so I says to mysen, ' It isn't the meanin', it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull at once, when... | |
| George Eliot - 1886 - 626 pages
...was allays uncommon for turning things over and seeing all round 'em; and I says to myself, ' Is't the meanin' or the words as makes folks fast i' wedlock?'...and then where are you? And so I says to mysen, ' It isn't the meanin', it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull at once, when... | |
| George Eliot - 1887 - 438 pages
...pity at the impotence of his hearer's imagination — " why, I was all of a tremble : it was as if I'd been a coat pulled by the two tails, like ; for I...meanin', it 's the glue." And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull at once, when we went into the vestry, and they begun to sign their names.... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1887 - 360 pages
...relation between "substance" and "form." "Is it the meaning or the words as makes folks fast in wedlock 1 For the parson meant right, and the bride and bridegroom...and then where are you? And so I says to mysen, 'It isn't the meanin', it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull at once. .... | |
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