Lodore
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781851960828
Hardcover|9781851960828
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "One " roared the captain; "do you call that one? not a quarter of a one. That fellow is only fit for fly-flapper at a pork shop I'll disrate you, by G--, you d--d Molly Mop; is that the way to handle a cat; that's only wiping the dirt off his back. Where's the boatswain ?" " Here," said a stout, gigantic, left-handed fellow, stepping forward, with a huge blue uniform coat and a plain anchor button, holding his hat in his left hand, and stroking his hair down his forehead with his right. I surveyed this man, as he turned himself about, and concluded, that the tailor who worked for him had been threatened with a specimen of his art, if he stinted him in cloth; for the skirts of his coat were ample, terminating in an inclined plane, the corners of the front being much lower than the middle of the robe behind; the buttons on the hips were nearly pistol-shot asunder. " Give this man a dozen, sir," said Captam G; " and if you favour him, I'll put you under arrest, and stop your liquor." This last part of the threat had more effect with Mr. Pipes than the first. He began to peel, as the boxers call it; off came his capacious coat; a red waistcoat -- full-sized for a Smithfield ox -- was next deposited; then he untied a black silk handkerchief, and showed a throat, covered like that ol a goat, with long brown hairs, thick as pack-thread. He next rolled up his shirt-sleeves above his elbow, and showed an arm and a back very like the Farnese Hercules, which, no doubt, all my readers have seen at the foot of the staircase at Somerset-house, when they have been to the exhibition. This hopeful commentator on articles of war seized his cat; the handle was two feet long, one inch and three quarters thick, and covered with red baize. The tails of this terrific weapon were...
| ISBN-13 | 9781851960828 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1851960821 |
| List Price | $42.01 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | Pickering & Chatto Ltd |
| Published On | 1996-03-01 |
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