 | James Beresford - 1807 - 360 str.
...peace— while you are perpetually tantalized with neglected proposals from the tender-hearted part of the audience, to " throw him over." 9. (S.) Your...round, on hearing a box-door open close by you, in hopes of feasting your eyes on some young angel whom you expect to appear, and beholding, instead of... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 384 str.
...with neglected proposals from the tender-hearted part of the audience, to " throw him over." 9. (SO Your opera-glass, (which had been perfectly clear,...strain your wrists, neck, and back, with stretching forward—in vain. 11. (S.) In the pit, at the opera—turning briskly round, on hearing a box-door... | |
 | 1840 - 818 str.
...the ladies are shopping, having your impatieace soothed by the setting of a saw close at your ear. Sitting on the last row, and close to the partition...at a pantomime, and hearing all the house laughing iround you, while you strain your wrists, neck and back, with lunching forward — in vain. At the... | |
 | James Beresford - 1856 - 202 str.
...dim at the moment when you have pointed it towards an enchanting creature who has just entered. 48. Sitting on the last row and close to the partition of an upper box at a pantomime, and healing all the house laughing around you, while you Btrain your wrists, neck, and back with stretching... | |
 | James Beresford - 1856 - 194 str.
...on the last row and close to the partition of an upper box at a pantomime, and healing all the bouse laughing around you, while you strain your wrists,...neck, and back with stretching forward — in vain. 49. In the pit, at the opera, turning briskly round, on hearing a boxdoor open close by you, in hopes... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 str.
...the ladies are shopping, having your impatience soothed by the setting 01 a saw close at y our .ear. Sitting on the last row, and close to the partition...upper box, at a pantomime, and hearing all the house langhin!; around you, while vou strain vour wrists, neck, and back with stretching forward — in vain.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 str.
...by the setting of a saw close at your ear. Sittine on the last row, and close to the partition oi au upper box, at a pantomime, and hearing all the house...neck, and back with stretching forward — in vain. At the play, the sickening scraps of naval loyalty which are crammed down your throat faster than you... | |
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In the pit, at the opera — turning briskly round, on hearing a box-door open close by you, in hopes of feasting your eyes on some young angel whom you expect to appear, and beholding, instead of her, that sort of hideous old crabbed-looking Crone of... 