 He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf — And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.  The Rover - Page 207edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1857 - 242 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | 1858 - 882 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke...his head like a wreath ; He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke...his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 240 pages
...were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow', And the beard of his chin was as .white as the snow*; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. 8. He was chubby and plump*, a right jolly old elf, And I laugh'd when I saw him', in spite of myself\... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 236 pages
...were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink... | |
 | Howard Paul - American wit and humor - 1860 - 344 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard on his chin ivas as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke...his head like a wreath. He had a broad face, and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly ; He was chubby and plump... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1843 - 260 pages
...little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow ; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. 6. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,8 And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.... | |
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