 I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. I shan't repent saying what I think, if I live to be as...  Adam Bede, by George Eliot - Page 341by Mary Ann Evans - 1859Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...be th' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a...folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." " But thee wutna like moving from th' old place, this Michaelmas twelvemonth," said Mr Poyser, " and going into... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 562 pages
...be th' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a...folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." " But thee wutna like moving from th' old place, this Michaelmas twelvemonth," said Mr Poyser, " and going into... | |
 | 1872 - 720 pages
...of human nature, ordinarily absent from Scotch humor, which, often severe, is very seldom cruel:—" It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." " Annuitants never die" isthe English form of that epigram, and though more direct and intelligible,... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...be th' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to bo corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a...wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' the other world. It's a small joke sets men laughing when they sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
..."Adam Bede " one of the most mirthsuggestive books in the language. Mark a few of the reflections : " It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." " There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water." " If you could... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
..."Adam Bede" one of the most mirthsuggestive books in the language. Mark a few of the reflections : " It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." " There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water." " If you could... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...a small joke sets men laughing when they sit a-staring at one another with a pipe i' their mouths. It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world. One 'ud think, an hear some folks talk, as the men war 'cute enough to count the corns in a bag o'... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 252 pages
...room, could we do better — than to quote a short paragraph from George Eliot's immortal Mrs. Poyser : "It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world." 11 MARGIN. IDE-MARGINED pages please us at first sight. * We do not stop to ask why. It has passed... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 548 pages
...you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. 1 shan't repent saying what I think, if I live to be...wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' the other world. It's a small joke sets men laughing when they sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...a small joke sets men laughing when they sit a-staring at one another with a pipe i' their mouths. It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only folks as aren't wanted i' th' other world. One 'ud think, an hear some folks talk, as the men war 'cute enough to count the corns in a bag o'... | |
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