Punch, Volume 225Punch Publications Limited, 1953 - English wit and humor |
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Page 118
I Young Riley to the Dark Tower Came SAY now , as I said then , that to report a cricket match in plain ordinary English is not only dull but entirely opposed to the trend of the time . True it was for the parish magazine , and the ...
I Young Riley to the Dark Tower Came SAY now , as I said then , that to report a cricket match in plain ordinary English is not only dull but entirely opposed to the trend of the time . True it was for the parish magazine , and the ...
Page 144
... young Copperfield ? " said Steerforth , passing a pale hand through curls now flecked with silver as he lay , his head resting on his arm- " You ask me about young Copperfield ? He has become a very successful man . Of course he always ...
... young Copperfield ? " said Steerforth , passing a pale hand through curls now flecked with silver as he lay , his head resting on his arm- " You ask me about young Copperfield ? He has become a very successful man . Of course he always ...
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... young persons " ; " young people " sounds somehow woolly - benign . " Adolescents , " though favoured in novels , are not what our friends between twelve and twenty would gladly , actually , claim to be . So , our unfortunates labour ...
... young persons " ; " young people " sounds somehow woolly - benign . " Adolescents , " though favoured in novels , are not what our friends between twelve and twenty would gladly , actually , claim to be . So , our unfortunates labour ...
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