Punch, Volume 239Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1960 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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Page 173
... mean con- tinuously ) entertaining . A device constantly used is the throw- away reference which is picked up after- wards ; what is superficially a quite simple and ordinary act or phenomenon becomes amusing in the light of something ...
... mean con- tinuously ) entertaining . A device constantly used is the throw- away reference which is picked up after- wards ; what is superficially a quite simple and ordinary act or phenomenon becomes amusing in the light of something ...
Page 238
... means the first . COURT : Very well . Does the promise mean what it says ? If I bear a note to you to - morrow , will you give me a pound ? WITNESS : Not a gold pound , my lord . I shall give you value - twenty shillings or two hundred ...
... means the first . COURT : Very well . Does the promise mean what it says ? If I bear a note to you to - morrow , will you give me a pound ? WITNESS : Not a gold pound , my lord . I shall give you value - twenty shillings or two hundred ...
Page 556
... mean that sufficiently care- free state . What I do know , however , is that offers of a rise in tax - free income ... means to me is that I'm a hundred pounds down the drain . It is only the specialist view , such as your own , which is ...
... mean that sufficiently care- free state . What I do know , however , is that offers of a rise in tax - free income ... means to me is that I'm a hundred pounds down the drain . It is only the specialist view , such as your own , which is ...
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