Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 páginas |
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... letter is dropped ; in the second , all the letters of the alphabet are crowded into single verses or sentences ; or , one vowel may be retained , to the exclusion of all the other vowels.— Diversions of alphabetic humor , especially of ...
... letter is dropped ; in the second , all the letters of the alphabet are crowded into single verses or sentences ; or , one vowel may be retained , to the exclusion of all the other vowels.— Diversions of alphabetic humor , especially of ...
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Charles Carroll Bombaugh. double entente , are Richelieu's letter of introduction . - Love - letter subter- fuges . - The Jesuit's Creed , as it was formerly called . - Verses adapted to either side in the American Revolutionary war ...
Charles Carroll Bombaugh. double entente , are Richelieu's letter of introduction . - Love - letter subter- fuges . - The Jesuit's Creed , as it was formerly called . - Verses adapted to either side in the American Revolutionary war ...
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... letter of an Irish M. P. to a friend.- The Irish propensity to blunder matched elsewhere . - Not only exhibited in ordinary conversation and writing , but in the works of the best authors . - Irish bulls and bulls that are not Irish ...
... letter of an Irish M. P. to a friend.- The Irish propensity to blunder matched elsewhere . - Not only exhibited in ordinary conversation and writing , but in the works of the best authors . - Irish bulls and bulls that are not Irish ...
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... letter . - The old illustration of the silly and trivial causes which sometimes lead to long and exhausting wars . — The favorite joke , " to lie - under a mistake . " - Amusing interruption in the British House of Commons . RR • Echo ...
... letter . - The old illustration of the silly and trivial causes which sometimes lead to long and exhausting wars . — The favorite joke , " to lie - under a mistake . " - Amusing interruption in the British House of Commons . RR • Echo ...
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... letters . - Keppel and the Dey of Algiers . -Thaceray and the beggar - woman . - Dr . Reid . — Scribe and the French ... letter to a bride . THE Moslem Wisdom . as to 501 HE just judgment of Ali in the settlement of a dispute . - Ali's ...
... letters . - Keppel and the Dey of Algiers . -Thaceray and the beggar - woman . - Dr . Reid . — Scribe and the French ... letter to a bride . THE Moslem Wisdom . as to 501 HE just judgment of Ali in the settlement of a dispute . - Ali's ...
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