...You're mighty fond o' Craig," says Mrs. Poyser to her husband, speaking of a certain Scotch gardener ; " but for my part, I think he's welly like a cock as...thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." This is the Poyser style, remarkably effective when it is necessary to scold her husband, to subdue...

...gardener, perhaps the very best description of that kind of conceited efficient eyer put into words: "You're mighty fond o' Craig; but for my part I think...thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." Nor is it the shrewdness born of long experience of men, like that which gives point to this profound...

...transcribe, premising that they are but scraps. Here is a description of a vain man : — " Yon're mighty fond o" Craig, but for my part I think he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun rose o' purpose to hear him crow." " It's poor work setting the dead above the living. We shall...

...as her remark in confidence to her husband — " You're mighty fond of Mr. Craig, but for my part, he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." When the old squire calls to suggest a new arrangement of the lease, concealing his real purpose under...

...his business, " and who had great lights concerning soils and compost ; but he was less of a favorite with Mrs. Poyser, who had more than once said in confidence...had also high shoulders and high cheek-bones, and hong his head forward a little, as he walked along with his hands in his breeches pockets. I think...

...o' Craig," Mrs. Poyser had said " in confidence to her husband " ; " but for my part, I think he 's welly like a cock as thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." She said it to other people, it seems, for Mr. Irwine quotes the remark to his mother as one of the...

...merits herself. "You're mighty fond o' Craig," Mrs. Poyser had said "in confidence to her husband"; "but for my part, I think he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun 's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." She said it to other people, it seems, for Mr. Irwine quotes...

...gelten, welche Frau Poyser in George Eliots „Adam Bede" von Craig, dem Gärtner, gibt. Sie sagt: „I think he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow". Was dem einfältigen Mann aus dem Volke das Rezept des Arztes noch jetzt vielfach ist, das eigentliche...

...Craig ' (the gardener at Donnithorne Chase, in <*Adam 'Bede] from ' Lecraygue ' — and so arrived at " he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow." This witticism, in an Anglo-Franco dialect, was evidently a source of pure happiness to my friend....

...but he was less of a favourite with Mrs. Poyser, who had more than once said in confidence to her 198 husband, " You're mighty fond o' Craig ; but for my...a little, as he walked along with his hands in his breeches-pockets. I think it was his pedigree only that had the advantage of being Scotch, and not...