| Youth - 1856 - 412 pages
...the man to gratify them. When I was a little boy nothing pleased me better than to creep up close to a man who had seen a good deal of the world, and to listen by the hour to the stories he had to tell of his travels. Now that I have grown older, and... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1871 - 910 pages
...though he were going to read, when he had finished talking ; his manners and conversation were those of a man who had seen a good deal of the world, and were rather old-fashioned. His clothes, of the same cut that he had worn for twenty years, hung loosely... | |
| Thomas Wilkinson Speight - 1880 - 364 pages
...life had been or was now ; but from certain things he said Lennox came to the conclusion that he was a man who had seen a good deal of the world, and had been acquainted with several phases of life of a more or less curious kind. Dinner over, young... | |
| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1881 - 642 pages
...denoted that he belonged to the class that has been called " clothes- wearing." He had the look of a man who had seen a good deal of the world, and enjoyed it, and who, if it had not treated him altogether well, had borne any buffets of Fate with cheerfulness,... | |
| Edith Dart - 1922 - 330 pages
...conventions and habits of his class, and come to live in a cottage near by, as Emma had discovered. He was a man who had seen a good deal of the world and had come back at last to the primitive simplicity which suited him. Sareel thought he looked very big... | |
| Genealogy - 1891 - 760 pages
...has made much the same observation, but in much more kindly terms. Although (he says) Gordon was " a man who had seen a good deal of the world and enjoyed...adequate to the accomplishment of his favourite object " ("Annals of Aberdeen.") And the preamble of the Deed of Mortification shows us that Gordon had had... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - English fiction - 1880 - 544 pages
...life had been, or was now ; but from certain things he said Lennox came to the conclusion that he was a man who had seen a good deal of the world and had been acquainted with several phases of life of a more or less curious kind. Dinner over, young... | |
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