 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
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 278 pages
...words as makes folks fast i' wedlock ? ' For the parson meant right, and the bride and bridegroom 235 meant right. But then, when I come to think on it,...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 240 three bells to pull at once,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 448 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...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 - 1901 - 516 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...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 - 1901 - 384 pages
...a little way i' most ti7ings, for you may mean to stick things together an>l your glue may be ba>l, 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 - 1902 - 568 pages
...I 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?'...may be bad, and then where are you? And so I says to myseu, 'It isn't the meanin', it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull... | |
 | George Eliot - 1903 - 508 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...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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 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?'...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 bolls to pull at once, when... | |
 | Edward Manson - 1904 - 538 pages
...meant right and the bride and bridegroom meant right. But then, when you come to think on it, meaning goes but a little way i" most things, for you may...then where are you ? And so I says to mysen, ' It isn't the meaning—it's the glue.' And I was worreted as if I'd got three bells to pull at once when... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 364 pages
...always gave his narrative in instalments, expecting to be questioned according to precedent. "Aye, and a partic'lar thing happened, did n't it, Mr. Macey,...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.... | |
 | Alfred S. Lowry - 1908 - 418 pages
...seeing all round 'em ; and I says to myself, ' Is't the meanin' or the words as makes folks fasti' wedlock?' For the parson meant right, and the bride...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... | |
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