Punch, Volume 229Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1955 - English wit and humor |
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Page 536
... English women have more success with tourist hunters than any other nationality . Although Spain seems to attract bevies of incredibly unattractive English ladies , not one of them need return home frustrated . Through all the offices ...
... English women have more success with tourist hunters than any other nationality . Although Spain seems to attract bevies of incredibly unattractive English ladies , not one of them need return home frustrated . Through all the offices ...
Page 668
... English public house . Where , on the Continent , it is customary to take one's refreshment sitting down , perhaps at little tables along the street , in England , if I may say so , with a certain hypocrisy , it is usual to consume ...
... English public house . Where , on the Continent , it is customary to take one's refreshment sitting down , perhaps at little tables along the street , in England , if I may say so , with a certain hypocrisy , it is usual to consume ...
Page 750
... English gentleman in me shies , like one of my own hunters , at the idea of betraying a woman . But when Miss Nancy Mitford explicitly states that by a person's vocabulary you may recognize his or her class , and implicitly suggests ...
... English gentleman in me shies , like one of my own hunters , at the idea of betraying a woman . But when Miss Nancy Mitford explicitly states that by a person's vocabulary you may recognize his or her class , and implicitly suggests ...
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