| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1885 - 508 pages
...joyous girls the queen, Brighter child shall not be seen ! [A FROG comes forward and speaks. There was an old woman, and what do you think, She lived...drink; Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. Not an old woman, Oh, no, sir, I 'm not; Nor even a girl.... | |
| Mary Putnam Jacobi - Botany - 1889 - 154 pages
...positivement qu'il va pleuvoir. We postponed going to the pic-nic. Oppidum obsessum victus satis habuit. There was an old woman, and what do you think, She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink. Puella regi se tradidit. The boys traded marbles with the girls. Le traitre a trahi le roi. By such... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1890 - 424 pages
...eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable, — There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived...but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVEU be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
| Flora N. Kightlinger - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1892 - 466 pages
...I think, may be safely attached, — " 'Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatched." THERE was an old woman, and — what do you think ? — She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink ! But though victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, Yet this grumbling old woman never was... | |
| May Agnes Fleming - 1893 - 344 pages
...reminds me wonderfully of the old woman in the song." And Gus drawled, in a sing-song tone : " There was an old woman — and what do you think ? She lived...nothing but victuals and drink — Victuals and drink was the whole of her diet — And yet this old woman could never be quiet." If Gus had seen the fiery... | |
| Hubert Marshall Skinner - Comedy - 1894 - 604 pages
...eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable : There lived an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon...but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 534 pages
...eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable : — There was an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived upon nothing hut victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would... | |
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