 Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door; which, as it was an established...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3651820Full view - About this book
 | William Ernest Henley - English language - 1903 - 390 pages
...Beggars. Ilk SMACK still, did crack still, Just like a cadger's whip. 1809. IRVING, Hui. N. York, 171. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to...abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty SMACK. 1860. DICKENS, Uncom. Traveller, ' Titbull's Almshouses.' Heard the sound of a SMACK— a SMACK which... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages ; that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages ; that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1893 - 400 pages
...LEAVE OF THEM WITH A HEARTV SMACK AT THE DOOR. such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to...and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the 260 a fjiston? of Hew door : which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity... | |
 | Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages ; that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | American literature - 1898 - 348 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave... | |
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