 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes ; all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face...metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and bluff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...strange assemblage of stars and stripes : all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognised on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George,...and buff ; a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre; the head was decorated with a cocked hat; and underneath was printed in large letters, GENERAL... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...assemblage of stars and stripes. All this was strange, and he could not understand it. He recognised on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George,...many a peaceful pipe ; but even this was singularly changed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...stripes. All this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face5 of King George, under which he had smoked so many...pipe ; but even this was singularly metamorphosed : 6 the red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a scepter,7... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 pages
...to show, that our common school education is almost precisely what it was one hundred years ago, and however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even that was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...stripes. All this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face 5 of King George, under which he had smoked so many...pipe ; but even this was singularly metamorphosed : 6 the red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a scepter,7... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1885 - 398 pages
...singular assemblage of stars and stripes — all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognised on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked many a peaceful pipe ; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes — all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face...and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes—all this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face...and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters,... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes. All this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face...and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters,... | |
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He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe ; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. 
