 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1895 - 354 psl.
...trumpery matter as a road fence." After this I quite expected to read that some one — . . . rained a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile and curled upon the floor ! And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.... | |
 | 1906 - 562 psl.
...many others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes : — Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seoms to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
 | 1906 - 682 psl.
...many others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes :— Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order— when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seems to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
 | 1871 - 798 psl.
...happens 10 be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. " Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in lh» abdomen. And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 psl.
...be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red...sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | 1873 - 618 psl.
...be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red...sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. And the subsequent proceedings interested him no... | |
 | 1870 - 522 psl.
...happens to be meant, Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean, of Angel's, raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen : He smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 psl.
...who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red...member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of... | |
 | John Mead Gould - 1871 - 910 psl.
...Dean of Angel's, was just on the point of bringing himself into notice and making a great effort — " when, A chunk of old red sandstone Took him in the ab-do-men, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, And curled up on the floor, And the subsequent jiroceedings Interested him no... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 psl.
...who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — / when A chunk of old...member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of an... | |
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Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. 
