 I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the New England weather, but I will give but a single specimen. I like to hear rain on a tin roof, so I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever...  The Speaker - Seite 461925Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1877 - 1194 Seiten
...strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the NewEngland weather, but I will give but a single specimen. I like to hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered a part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on that... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 Seiten
...part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...it ever rains on the tin ? No, sir ; skips it every time. Mind, I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather; no language could do... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 Seiten
...part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...it ever rains on the tin ? No, sir; skips it every time. Mind, I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather ; no language could do... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1878 - 160 Seiten
...tenth part of her weather. You can see cracks all about where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to the luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on that tin ? No, sir : skips it every time. Mind... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 Seiten
...part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the New England weather, hut I will give but a single specimen. I like to hear rain on a tin roof, so I covered part of my roof... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 Seiten
...hundreds and hundreds of miles over the neighboring States. She can't hold a tenth part of her weather. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...it ever rains on the tin ? No, sir ; skips it every time. Mind, I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather ; no language could do... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 426 Seiten
...part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...roof, so I covered part of my roof with tin, with nn eye to that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on the tin? No, sir ; skips it every time.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 Seiten
...and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. She can't hold a tenth part of her weather. 10. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the New England weather, but I will give only a single specimen. I like to hear rain on a "tin roof: so I covered part of my roof with tin,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 Seiten
...and hundreds of miles over the neighboring states. She can't hold a tenth part of her weather. 10. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity of the New England weather, but I will give only a single specimen. I like to hear rain on a tin roof: so I covered part of my roof with tin, with... | |
 | 1884 - 780 Seiten
...part of her weather. You can see cracks all about, where she has strained herself trying to do it. I could speak volumes about the inhuman perversity...it ever rains on the tin? No, sir; skips it every time. Mind, in the speech, I have been trying merely to do honw to the New England weather ; no language... | |
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