 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...hundred andjifty pounds," said Lord Spencer ! The spectators are now absolutely electrified. The Marquis quietly adds his usual " ten," and there is an end...air." However, at length, down dropt the hammer.' Mr. Dibdin, immediately after this special passage, proceeds to give a most laughable account of the... | |
 | Thomas Curson Hansard - Lithography - 1841 - 318 pages
...hundred and fifty pounds,' said Lord Spencer. The spectators are now absolutely electrified. The marquis quietly adds his usual ' ten,' and there is an end...if by something preternatural, the ebony instrument seemed itself to be charmed or suspended ' in mid air.' However, at length down dropped the hammer,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1854 - 374 pages
...hundred and f fty pounds' said lord Spencer ! The spectators were now absolutely electrified. The marquis quietly adds his usual ' ten,' * * and there is an...instrument itself seemed to be charmed or suspended ' in the mid air.' However, at length, down dropped the hammer. * * • The spectators," continues Mr Dibdin... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...and fifty pounds '.' said Lord Spencer. The spectators are now absolutely electrified. The marquis quietly adds his usual 'ten,' and there is an end of the contest. As the hammer fell, its echo was heard in the libraries of Rome, of Milan, and St. Mark." — (Dibdin's... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1855 - 986 pages
...and fifty pounds ! ' said Lord Spencer. The spectators are now absolutely electrified. The Marquis quietly adds his usual ' ten,' and there is an end of the contest. As the hammer fell, its echo was heard in the libraries of Rome, of Milan, and St. Mark."* It was said... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - Gas manufacture and works - 1861 - 752 pages
...hundred and fifty pounds,' said Lord Spencer. The spectators are now absolutely electrified. The marquis quietly adds his usual 'ten,' and there is an end...if by something preternatural, the ebony instrument seemed itself to be charmed or suspended in ' in mid-air.' However, at length down dropped the hammer,... | |
 | Scotland - 1861 - 842 pages
...Marquess quietly adds his usual ten" and -so there an end. "Mr. Evans, ere his hammer fell, made a short pause — and indeed, as if by something preternatural, the ebony instrument itself seemed to he charmed or suspended in the mid air. However, at last down dropped the hammer." Such a result naturally... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1862 - 410 pages
...Marquess quietly adds his usual ten," and so there an end. " Mr Evans, ere his hammer fell, made a short pause — and indeed, as if by something preternatural,...instrument itself seemed to be charmed or suspended in the mid air. However, at last down dropped the hammer." Such a result naturally created excitement... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...hundred and fifty pounds," said Lord Spencer. The spectators were aow absolutely electrified. The marquis ed me to make two or three visits at her father's...retirement, 122 the vanity of youth no longer fluttered the mid air." However, at leugth down dropped the hammer The spectators,' continues Mr Dibdin in his... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 428 pages
...Marquess quietly adds his usual ten" and so there an end. " Mr. Evans, ere his hammer fell, made a short pause — and indeed, as if by something preternatural,...instrument itself seemed to be charmed or suspended in the mid air. However, at last down dropped the hammer." Such a result naturally created excitement... | |
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Mr Evans, ere his hammer fell, made a due pause — and indeed, as if by something preternatural, the ebony instrument itself seemed to be charmed or suspended " in the mid air. 
