 | John Poole - Balloon ascensions - 1838 - 112 pages
...was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went with everything on it ; and your poor, paltry,...insolently call it,) having been placed on casters for the occasion — I am satisfied of that— was gently rolled away from under us. At once to satisfy you... | |
 | John Poole - Balloon ascensions - 1838 - 114 pages
...was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went with everything on it ; and your poor, paltry,...insolently call it,) having been placed on casters for the occasion — I am satisfied of that— was gently rolled away from under us. At once to satisfy you... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the connection between us with a pair of shears— down it went with everything on it ; and your poor paltry...as you insolently call it), having been placed on castors for the occasion I am satisfied of that — was gently rolled away from under us — Poole't... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...Átropos, cutting the connection between us with a pair of shears — down it went, with every thing on it ; and your poor, paltry, little Dutch toy of...insolently call it), having been placed on casters for the occasion — I am satisfied of that — was gently rolled away from under иш."* * " Crotchets in... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...with a pair of shears — down it went, with every thing on it ; and your poor, paltry, little Duteh toy of a town (your Great Metropolis, as you insolently call it), having been placed on casters for the occasion — I am satisfied of that — was gently rolled away from under us"* Feeling nothing of the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Household words - 1853 - 504 pages
...Atropos, cutting the connexion between us with a pair of shears — down it went, with every thing on it ; and your poor, paltry, little Dutch toy of...insolently call it), having been placed on casters for the occasion — I am satisfied of that — was gently rolled away from under us"* Feeling nothing of the... | |
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... on. There we sat quietly all the while in our wicker buck-basket, utterly unconscious of motion ; till, at length, Mr. Green snapping a little iron, and thus letting loose the rope by which the earth was suspended to us — like Atropos cutting the... 