 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 sidor
...drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town, To shops in crowds the draggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy, The Templar spruce, while ev'ry spout's abroach, Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach, The tuck'd up sempstress walks... | |
 | John Ashton - 1882 - 358 sidor
...carry, no Jonas Hanway having yet arisen), yet they did not stir out unless obliged ; and it was only The tuck'd up sempstress walks with hasty strides While Streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.1 Curious clumsy things these old umbrellas must have been. For a man to have used one, he would... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 sidor
...cloudy stain ! Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 sidor
...cloudy stain I Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...goods, but nothing buy. The Templar spruce, while every apout 's abroach. The tuck'd up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 732 sidor
...Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops hi crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen...goods, but nothing buy. The Templar spruce, while every spout 's abroach. The tuck'd up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd... | |
 | John Ashton - 1885 - 624 sidor
...avocations compelled them to be out, whatever the weather. As Gay says in his " Trivia " — " The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides." But for men, fie ! he must be an effeminate coxcomb who would carry one. Hear what fun was made of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 648 sidor
...See her Thought* on thf Jfanncri of the Great. ' Annual Register, 1765, p. 64. • ' The i ucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.' raflw>Ko.m ' Good housewives all the winter's rage de>pise Defended by the riding hood's disguise ;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 sidor
...Shower : "Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 sidor
...Shower : "Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 sidor
...Shower : "Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend...Stays till 'tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here... | |
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Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. 
