Punch, Volume 245Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1963 - English wit and humor |
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... perhaps less confident than I seemed when I assured my wife that the chances of our being vengefully chased up a Greek mews were slight . After all , we were landing in Athens at a time when Anglo - Greek strain was still showing in the ...
... perhaps less confident than I seemed when I assured my wife that the chances of our being vengefully chased up a Greek mews were slight . After all , we were landing in Athens at a time when Anglo - Greek strain was still showing in the ...
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... perhaps , fully appreciating the worth such things represent , I'm capable of recognising the reasons for it . A diamond doesn't soar in value because it's chipped and turns grey in the rain . An inferior Rembrandt fetches less than a ...
... perhaps , fully appreciating the worth such things represent , I'm capable of recognising the reasons for it . A diamond doesn't soar in value because it's chipped and turns grey in the rain . An inferior Rembrandt fetches less than a ...
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... perhaps the chief , of the mani- festations that distinguish a naturalist from an ordinary gaper or sentimen- talist , but quite apart from that I was genuinely interested . I wanted to know how long she could do to the lungful . Other ...
... perhaps the chief , of the mani- festations that distinguish a naturalist from an ordinary gaper or sentimen- talist , but quite apart from that I was genuinely interested . I wanted to know how long she could do to the lungful . Other ...
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