 | Richard Warner - 1807 - 98 pages
...of Ossian's heroes, " Gone is my strength in the war, and fallen my pride amongst women." — There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the...rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the squire. But — -fuimus — Jack ! all my credit for successful gallantry has been extinguished, and my ardour... | |
 | Mary Clementina Hibbert- Ware - 1879 - 340 pages
...have made my court to Lady Betty with success; but fallen is my pride among women. There was a time when I made a figure with the sex, and could select...conquests a fair specimen of every degree of rank ' Here there was a fluttering of fans, and feminine ejaculations were audible : ' Oh lud ! Oh lau II... | |
 | A. Barbeau - Bath (England) - 1904 - 426 pages
...horse's head, one morning about three years a<,lo Iowards a mountain of Wales » (p. 2). — « There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the...rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the squire. But — fuimus — Jack ! all my credit for successful gallantry has been extinguished, and my ardour... | |
 | Alfred Barbeau - Bath (England) - 1904 - 452 pages
...turned my horse's head one morning, about three years ago, towards a mountain of Wales " (p. 2). " There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the...rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the Squire. But— -Juimus — Jack ! all my credit for successful gallantry has been extinguished, and my ardour... | |
 | Alfred Barbeau - Bath (England) - 1904 - 432 pages
...years ago towards a mountain of Wales » (p. 2). — « There was a time.indeed, when I made a ligure with the sex, and could select from my list of conquests...specimen of every degree of rank, from the duchess to thé spouse of the squire. But — fuimus — Jack ! all my eredit for successfu1 gallantry Iras been... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 728 pages
...Racket, I once thought — but your ladyship knows his affairs took a different turn." "CAPTAIN1 MATHEWS with the sex, and could select from my list of conquests...rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the squire. But — fuimus, Jack ! All my credit for successful gallantry has been extinguished, and my ardour... | |
 | Clementina Black - Bath (England) - 1911 - 396 pages
...Characters. " Rattle," who unquestionably stands for Mathews, says : " Fallen is my pride among women. There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the...rank from the duchess to the spouse of the squire." A lady-killer, then, was Captain Mathews — the superior grade was generally given to him by his fellow-townsmen... | |
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There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the sex, and could select from my list of conquests a fair specimen of every degree of rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the squire. 