Sticker, especially — in his most temperate moments a perfect skyblue-bodied red-faced, bowing and smirking pattern of politeness to females, was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels,... The Works of Thomas Hood... - Page 267by Thomas Hood - 1861Full view - About this book
| Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1836 - 320 pages
...females, was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...word, as will get a strange lady up into a strange gemman'sgig. It wants warmth-like, and making on her feel at home. Only let me alone with her, for... | |
| Irish periodicals - 1835 - 298 pages
...females—was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...enough,' observed Sam, with a side wink at his master. 'Itan't a bit of a scrape, and a civil word, as will get a strange lady up into a strange gemman's... | |
| Oliver Oldham - Readers (Secondary) - 1854 - 406 pages
...the pig-butcher, and his foreman Samuel Slark, or, as he was more commonly Called, Sam the Sticker. They inquired, and I explained in a few words the...relating the issue of my own attempts in her behalf. 6. " Mayhap you warn't half purlite enough," observed Sam, with a side wink at his master. " It an'ta... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...females, was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort arid succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...issue of my own attempts in her behalf. " ' Mayhap you waru't half piirlite or pressing enough,' observed 326 Thomas Hood. [Feb. Sam, with a side wink at... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...females, was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...scrape, and a civil word, as will get a strange lady into a strange gemman's gig. It wants warmth-like, and making on her feel at home. Only let me alone... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1868 - 588 pages
...distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die for them, with as much of the chivalrous spiiit as remains in our times. They inquired, and I explained...word, as will get a strange lady up into a strange gemman'i gig. It wants warmth-like, and making on her feel at home. Only let me alone with her, for... | |
| Edward Moxon (and co.) - Readers - 1882 - 576 pages
...females, was now, under the influence of good ale, a very Sir Calidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...scrape, and a civil word, as will get a strange lady into a strange gemman's gig. It wants warmth-like, and making on her feel at home. Only let me alone... | |
| Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 pages
...females — was now, under the influence of good ale, a very SirCalidore, ready to comfort and succour distressed damsels, to fight for them, live or die...observed Sam, with a side wink at his master. ' It an't a bit of a scrape, and a civil word, as will get в strange lady up into a strange gemman's gig.... | |
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