 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 456 pages
...that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to sec the several exchanges that were made, for sickness...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...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...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, and... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 pages
...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...bartering for features; one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON SENSE... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pages
...that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see several exchanges that were made, for sickness against poverty, hunger against want of appetite, and ease against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking... | |
 | 1903 - 360 pages
...that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see several exchanges that were made, for sickness against poverty, hunger against want of appetite', and ease against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features ; one was... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see several exchanges that were made, for sickness against poverty, hunger against want of appetite, and ease against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking... | |
 | 1903 - 1048 pages
...his illness ; but they were incapable either of them to recede from the choice they had made. (278) The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features : but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as... | |
 | 1907 - 264 pages
...that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. It was pleasant enough to see several exchanges that were made, for sickness against poverty, hunger against want of appetite, and ease against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1914 - 394 pages
...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...appetite, and care against pain. The female world were busy among themselves in bartering for features; one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...stead, but made such wry faces that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain. 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;... | |
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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... 
