 While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as...  The Miseries of Human Life; Or The Groans of Timothy Testy, and Samuel ... - Page 34by James Beresford - 1806 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1806 - 606 pages
...wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all : then, in an agony of shame, making...as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think you had been only singing all the while.' ' 22. fS.J ' In attempting to spring carelessly, with the... | |
 | James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1807 - 360 pages
...to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making...all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed !— if / had •been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment, " Si loqueris,... | |
 | James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1807 - 384 pages
...to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all; then, in an agony of shame, making a...been only singing all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed!—If I had been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment," Si... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 246 pages
...yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have beard it all ; then in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to smg, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had ljeeuo»/y... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person stealing close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to ring, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been... | |
 | James Beresford - American wit and humor - 1856 - 194 pages
...to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making...like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your heaver think that you had been only singing all the while, Tcs. A forlorn hope, indeed! — if /had... | |
 | James Beresford - American wit and humor - 1856 - 202 pages
...to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by vou, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to ulnff, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1898 - 872 pages
...to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as l&e your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been oily singing all... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...wildly to yourself in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all, then in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to si'i?, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...wildly to yourself in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all, then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to ting, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been... | |
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