 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...surer. — JB had a. heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (tho maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah,...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, sirrah" (his favourite adjuration), " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...recess, or library, and, with turbulent eye, singling jut a lad, roar out, "Od's my life, sirrah" (his favourite adjuration), " I have a great mind to whip... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," (his favourite adjuration) " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...singling out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," * In this and every thing B. was the antipodes of his coadjutor. While the former was digging his brains... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1892 - 348 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...singling out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," * In this and every thing B. was the antipodes of his coadjutor. While the former was digging his brains... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1892 - 346 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer. — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...singling out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah," * In this and every thing B. was the antipodes of his coadjutor. While the former was digging his brains... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...passionate -wig ! No comet expounded surer. JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...schoolroom from his inner recess or library, and, with a turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, " Od's *Cowley. f In this and everything B. was the... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Education - 1896 - 364 pages
...passionate wig. No comet expounded surer . — JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, Sirrah ! " (his favourite adjuration), " I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - Historic buildings - 1899 - 534 pages
...execution. Woe to the school when he made his morning appearance in his passy or passionate wig. . . . Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong...and with turbulent eye singling out a lad, roar out, ' Ods my life, sirrah ! I have a great mind to whip you ! ' — then, with a sudden and retracting... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk 10 hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah, do you...out a lad, roar out, " Od's my life, sirrah" (his 15favourite adjuration), "I have a great mind to whip you," — then, with as sudden a retracting impulse,... | |
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JB had a heavy hand. I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a " Sirrah, do you presume to set your wits at me? 
