 Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.  Punch - Page 13edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 562 pages
...others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes : — Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seoms to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
 | 1906 - 682 pages
...others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes :— Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order— when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seems to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 pages
...meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone...abdomen, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more." * * • « * The prose tales... | |
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone...abdomen, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more." * • * • * The prose tales... | |
 | John Mead Gould - 1871 - 910 pages
...Dean of Angel's, was just on the point of bringing himself into notice and making a great effort — " when, A chunk of old red sandstone Took him in the...ab-do-men, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, And curled up on the floor, And the subsequent jiroceedings Interested him no more." WHO RELIEVED US. The manner... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the * abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 pages
...happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — / when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen ; And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1872 - 410 pages
...happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abncr Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen; And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 pages
...Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1873 - 164 pages
...to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS. 87 i A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
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