 There are two or three honest friends of mine — and true friends, I know, they are — who, nevertheless, by their fiery pugnacity in my behalf, do put me in fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss...  Twice-told Tales - Page 172by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1840 - 516 pages
...fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even of a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let...get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the cause of the town pump, in the style of a toper fighting for his brandy bottle ? Or can the excellent... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...this fault be amended. Is it decent, think you, to get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the cause of the town pump, in the style of a toper fighting...? Or can the excellent qualities of cold water be no otherwise exemplified than by plunging splashdash into hot water, and wofully scalding yourselves... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even of a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let...get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the cause of the town pump, in the style of a toper fighting for his brandy bottle ? Or can the excellent... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...in fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let...get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the honourable cause of the Town Pump, in the style of a toper fighting for his brandy bottle ? Or can... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 pages
...fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even of a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let this fault be amended. In the moral warfare which you are to wage — and, indeed, in the whole conduct of your lives —... | |
 | William Horsell - Hydrotherapy - 1850 - 266 pages
...fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even of a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let this fault be amended. In the moral warfare which you are to wage, and indeed in the whole conduct of your lives, you cannot... | |
 | Humorous recitations - 1853 - 404 pages
...in fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let...bottle? Or, can the excellent qualities of cold water be no otherwise exemplified, than by plunging, slap dash into hot water, and wofully scalding yourselves... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let this fault he amended. Is it decent, think you, to get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the honourable cause of the Town Pump, in the style of a toper, fighting for his brandy bottle! 2 R a NATHANIEL... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...amended. Is it decent, think you, to get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the honourable cause of the Town Pump, in the style of a toper fighting for hia brandy bottle ? Or can the excellent qualities of cold water be no otherwise exemplified than by... | |
 | 1856 - 402 pages
...in fearful hazard of a broken nose, or even a total overthrow upon the pavement, and the loss of the treasure which I guard. I pray you, gentlemen, let...? Or can the excellent qualities of cold water be no otherwise exemplified than by plunging, slap-dash, into hot water, and wofully scalding yourself,... | |
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