Punch, Volume 230Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1956 - English wit and humor |
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Page 60
... able to tell her that in the new country , as created by the stern journalistic pundits of a sensible economy , shooting for sport's sake was almost as unfashionable as refraining from felling a fine tree merely because it was handsome ...
... able to tell her that in the new country , as created by the stern journalistic pundits of a sensible economy , shooting for sport's sake was almost as unfashionable as refraining from felling a fine tree merely because it was handsome ...
Page 237
... able to hurry in and hand him a piece of paper from which he was able triumphantly to tell the House the date of Soranus's victory and sundry other details connected therewith . Lord Conesford , as careful of language as in the old days ...
... able to hurry in and hand him a piece of paper from which he was able triumphantly to tell the House the date of Soranus's victory and sundry other details connected therewith . Lord Conesford , as careful of language as in the old days ...
Page 285
... able to call the foreseeable future , and viewers should prepare for cartoon figures of poets , and eight - bar close- harmony jingles rhyming cuckoo with somebody's shampoo . Then the summer ( cricketers speaking well of detergents ) ...
... able to call the foreseeable future , and viewers should prepare for cartoon figures of poets , and eight - bar close- harmony jingles rhyming cuckoo with somebody's shampoo . Then the summer ( cricketers speaking well of detergents ) ...
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