 | Horace Mann - English language - 1841 - 40 pages
...for the poor child, it is all ache, anguish, agony, atrocity, and abomination ; and when the teacher To twist him a twist He three twines doth entwist;...twines That he twisteth, untwists, The twine that untwisteth Untwisteth the twist." " Quand un Cordonnier cordant, Veut corder une corde, Ponr corder... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 250 pages
...road, through which the conqueror proudly rode. 10. He concurred in condemning the confederates. 11. When a twister, a twisting, would twist him a twist, To twist him a twist he three twines doth intwist ; But if one of the twines he twists, doth untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - Readers - 1894 - 288 pages
...and stoutest boasts He thrusts his fists against the posts And still insists he sees the ghosts. d. When a twister a twisting would twist him. a twist, to twist him a twist he three strands doth entwist ; but, if one of the strands that he twisteth untwists, the strand that untwisteth... | |
 | mrs. warren - 1882
...of a rope or cord, or Saxon "threpp" a rope of three " ply." Fleecy is known as three or four^/y. " A twister, a twisting would twist him a twist, To twist him a twist he three strands doth entwist ; But in twisting his twist, if a strand doth untwist, The strand that untwineth... | |
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When a twister a twisting Would twist him a twist, To twist him a twist He three twines doth entwist ; But when one of the twines That he twisteth, untwists, The twine that untwisted) Untwisteth the twisr. 