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" Sidmouth and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824 there set in a great flood upon that town; the tide rose to an incredible height; the waves rushed in upon the houses; and everything was threatened with... "
The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in ... - Page 13
1853 - 408 pages
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British Writers

Ian Scott-Kilvert - Authors, English - 2002 - 580 pages
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Sydney Smith

Alan S. Bell - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 276 pages
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The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation: Who Said What, about Where?

Peter Yapp - Reference - 1983 - 1022 pages
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Wessex: A Literary Celebration

Desmond Hawkins - Wessex (England) - 1991 - 232 pages
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Reading Faulkner: The unvanquished : glossary and commentary

James Hinkle, Robert McCoy - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 256 pages
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Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks

Noah Brooks - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...of the Lords to stop the progress of Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington...this sublime and terrible storm Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing...
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The Elements of Rhetoric (1878)

James De Mille - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 598 pages
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Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the ...

William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 2001 - 261 pages
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A System of Rhetoric

Charles William Bardeen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 846 pages
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