 | 1847 - 486 sidor
...who, in recommending a trumpet he is offering her, says : " There was Mrs. F., So very deaf, That she might have worn a percussion cap, And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap. Well, I sold her a trumpet, and the very next day She heard from her husband in Botany Bay." But we... | |
 | Thomas Chase - 1863 - 232 sidor
...Wise (" Harry Gringo"), who was in Greece at the same time as myself, paints him as he was then. " Otho is tall and slim, with a small head and very...in fact, ' So very deaf, That he might have worn a percussion-cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap.' But still, with his German-grayish... | |
 | Catherine Simpson Wynne - 1869 - 254 sidor
...sleep there." " Oh, what a comfort !" in Monica's usual tones, " he's as deaf as Hood's old lady, "'Who might have worn a percussion cap, And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap.' we may chatter as much and as loud as we like — oh dear — " and then came a long yawn — " how... | |
 | James Grant - 1883 - 388 sidor
...Mademoiselle de Caille' and her father in the dining-room, he slept as soundly as Hood,s old woman, ' Who might have worn a percussion cap, And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap., CHAPTER XVII. FACING A BATTERY OF MITRAILLEUSES. THE night passed over quietly, and without alarm ;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1920 - 256 sidor
...scales That the sounds of a cod seem as large as a whale's. There was Mrs. F. so very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap. Well, I sold her a horn, and the very next day She heard from her husband in Botany Bay. Again, his... | |
 | 1921 - 638 sidor
...scales That the sounds of a cod seem as large as a whale's. There was Mrs. F, So very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing a snap. Well, I sold her a horn. and the very next day She heard from lier husband in Botany Bay. "Well... | |
 | 1894 - 980 sidor
...scales That the sounds of a cod seem as large as a whale's. There was Mrs. F. so very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap. Well, I sold her a horn, and the very next day She heard from her husband in Botany Bay. Again, his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1892 - 718 sidor
...that would intensify even an Irish debate j but, of course, such a one as Miss Kilmansegg used, ' who might have worn a percussion cap, and been knocked on the head without hearing it snap.' I am afraid that no remedy has been found for deafness ; the trumpet, or some arrangement for the collection... | |
 | 1885 - 398 sidor
...pamphlets, but Hood's " Tale of a Trumpet" beats it all hollow. " There was Mrs. F., So very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap. Well, I sold her a horn, and the very next day She heard from her husband at Botany Bay." DARWINISM... | |
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There was Mrs. F. so very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap. 