 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...the gout instead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...bartering for features : one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle ; another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders ;... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...the gout instead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...busy among themselves in bartering for features : one wag trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle; another was making over a short waist for a pair... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...the gout instead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...hunger against want of appetite, and care against pain. I must not omit my own particular adventure. My friend with a long visage had no sooner taken upon... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. 11. The female world were very busy among themselves in...''"bartering for features; one was ^trucking a lock of gray hairs for a + carbuncle, and another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders;... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...stead, but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. 14. It was pleasant enough to see the several exchanges...appetite, and care against pain. The female world was very busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 pages
...in their place, but he made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain; it was pleasant enough to see the several...that were made, for sickness against poverty, hunger for want of appetite, and care against pain. The ladies were very busy among themselves in bartering... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...3 in their stead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...hunger against want of appetite, and care against pain. 4. The female world were vSry busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking 3 a... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...instead, but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bar-, gain. It was pleasant enough to see the several exchanges...hunger against want of appetite, and care against pain. I must not omit my own particular adventure. My friend with a long visage had no sooner taken upon... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...the gout instead, but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...hunger against want of appetite, and care against pain. I must not omit my own particular adventure. My friend with a long visage had no sooner taken upon... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...the gout instead ; but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several...against poverty, hunger against want of appetite, and ease against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features : one was... | |
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... from the choice they had made. A poor galley slave, who had thrown down his chains, took up the gout in their stead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see the several... 
