 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...cases."— " A gross of green spectacles !" related my wife In a faint voice. " And you have parted with ths colt, and brought us back nothing but a gross of green paltry sIiectacles !" — "Dear mother," cried the boy, "why won't you listen to reason? I had them a dead... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...and here it is," pulling out a bundle from his breast ;f" here they are; a gross of green spectacleSj with silver rims, and shagreen cases.'^"A gross of...them. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money." "A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife in a passion; "I dare swear they won't sell - for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin - Abduction - 1842 - 322 pages
...breast; " here they are, a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases." — "A gross of green spectacles!" repeated my wife, in a...mother," cried the boy, " why won't you listen to reason 1 I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver rims alone will sell for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...breast : " here they are : a gioss of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases." — "A gross of green spectacles!" repeated my wife in a...parted with the colt, and brought us back nothing but a gioss of green paltry spectacles!" — "Dear mother," cried the boy, "why won't you listen to reason?... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English fiction - 1843 - 336 pages
...breast : " here they are ; a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases." — " A gross of green spectacles ! " repeated my wife in...? I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have brought them. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money." — " A fig for the silver rims... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
..." here they are ; a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims, and shagreen cases." 7 brought as back nothing- but a gross of green paltry spectacles!" — "Dear mother," cried the boy, "why won't yon listen to reason 1 I had them a dead bargain, or I should not hare bought them. The silver rims... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...breast : " here they are ; a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases." — " A gross of green spectacles !" repeated my wife in a...them. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money." — " A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife in a passion : " I dare swear they won't sell... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...voice. "And you have parted with tha colt, and brought us back nothing hut a gross of green poltry spectacles!" — "Dear mother," cried the boy, "why...bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver riinn alone will sell for double the money." — " A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife in a passion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...his breast ; ' here they are ; a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases.' ' A gross of green spectacles !' repeated my wife in a...The silver rims alone will sell for double • the money.' ',A fig for the silver rinis,' cried my wife, in a passion ; ' I dare affirm they won't sell... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English language - 1847 - 376 pages
...breast: ,,here they are; a gross of green *pectacles, w th silver rims and shagreen cases." — ,,A gross of green spectacles!" repeated my wife, in a...back nothing but a gross of green paltry spectacles!" — ,,Deur mother," i'ried the boy, ,,why won't you listen to reason? I bad them a dead bargain , or... | |
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I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is,' pulling out a bundle from his breast: 'here they are: a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases. 
