| Benjamin Leopold Farjeon - 1900 - 362 pages
...well of him ? ' ' As a money man ? ' ' It's the only way a fellow can speak of him. He's all money — from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. A jolly good job, too, for some of us.' ' Perhaps you are right,' said Mrs Vayne. ' When all's said... | |
| Harry Furniss - Cartoonists - 1901 - 302 pages
...When he was not sketching, he was playing chess with the Captain. Now this commander was a captain from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. A stern disciplinarian, erect, handsome, uncommunicative, not a better officer ever stood on the bridge... | |
| John Farrar - Pennsylvania - 1902 - 256 pages
...could have any faith in the testimony of such a specimen of humanity? He's all tatters and patches from the top of his head to the .soles of his feet, and I'm given to understand he has been brought up on the fragments of charity. Gentlemen, I demand justice... | |
| United States - 1903 - 480 pages
...the kind that we talked about on this platform last night. I want a man who is not only a Republican from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, but who has been one all his life. I don't mean to insinuate anybody has not been that who has been... | |
| J. B. Wilson - Europe - 1905 - 390 pages
...statue is erected in a prominent place in this great cathedral. It is marble, life size. He is skinned from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and has his skin across his shoulders. It is one of the most ghastly objects I ever looked at. Everybody... | |
| Thomas Rees - Cuba - 1906 - 418 pages
...about two hundred and fifty pounds and measures nearly as much from larboard to starboard as he does 91 from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. He wears a jaunty blue uniform when he leaves New York, which he changes in this latitude to a suit... | |
| Thomas F. Porter - American poetry - 1906 - 238 pages
...catarrh, But then 'tis not so with young Johnny Dunbar. Young Johnny Dunbar is well, robust, complete, From the top of his head to the soles of his feet ; He is brimful of vigor, ambition and vim, And I have a very strong liking for him ; He's a courage... | |
| Walter S. Smith - Social sciences - 1908 - 212 pages
..."Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," and soundly cursing that restaurant keeper from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, he and all his kind? Can we blame the negro for doing the same thing? While the negro must suffer for... | |
| Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - India - 1909 - 364 pages
...the decision. His secretary, Colonel C., told me this, and that when the news arrived he laughed ' from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.' And he, Bushir-ed-Dowlah, is also delighted at the birth of the Nizam's son and heir, because it cuts Kurshid... | |
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