 ... of tail down too. What a man this must be — thought I — to whom my tremendous hero turns tail ! The carrier saw the muzzle hanging, cut and useless, from his neck, and I eagerly told him the story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think,...  Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction - Page 119by Alfred Ludlow White - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1859
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, " Rab, ma man, puir Rabbie " — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes filled,... | |
 | John Brown - 1859 - 31 pages
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, "Rab, ma man, puir Rabbie," — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes filled,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1859
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, " Rab, ma man, puir Rabbie " — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes filled,... | |
 | John Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 1861 - 458 pages
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated,...three. Bob and I buried the Game Chicken that night (we Lad not much of a tea) in the back-green of his house in Melville Street, No. 17, with considerable... | |
 | John Brown - Literary Collections - 1861
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, " Rab, ma man, puir Rabbie," — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes filled,... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 458 pages
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated,...ears were cocked, the eyes filled, and were comforted ; (he two friends were reconciled. " Hupp ! " and a stroke of the whip were given to Jess ; and off... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 458 pages
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, " Eab, my man, puir Eabbie," — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 340 pages
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, "Bab, ma man, puir Babbie," — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up , the ears were cocked, the eyes... | |
 | JOHN BROWN - 1865
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and still think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, " Eab, my man, puir Rabbie," — whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes... | |
 | JOHN BROWN, M.D. - 1866
...story, which Bob and I always thought, and stil] think, Homer, or King David, or Sir Walter, alone were worthy to rehearse. The severe little man was mitigated, and condescended to say, "Rab, ma man, puir Rabbie,"—whereupon the stump of a tail rose up, the ears were cocked, the eyes filled,... | |
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