(12 quotes found)
“Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody seemed one penny the worse!”
Rev. R. H. Barham
“And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.”
“He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.”
“But when the Crier cried, `O Yes!' the people cried, `O No!'”
“Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / What's to be done? / We've missed all the fun! - / Why, they'll laugh at and quiz us all over the town, / We are all of us done so uncommonly brown!”
“She drank prussic acid without any water,/ And died like a Duke-and-a-Duchess's daughter!”
“He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower.”
“And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.”
“The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.”
“They were a little less than `kin', and rather more than `kind'.”
