 Your worships may understand, that, because I have no safer a store-house, these pockets do serve me for a room to lay up my goods in ; and though it be a strait prison, yet it is big enough for them...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 448herausgegeben von - 1896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elizabeth Sage - 1926 - 276 Seiten
...trunk-hose; he was able to convince the judge to the contrary, however, by producing the following: "A pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, and a nightcap ! " l These trunk-hose were expensive. "They were made of silk, velvet, satin, damask,... | |
 | 1919 - 468 Seiten
...wearing bags stuffed in their breeches, but one man escaped by showing that all he had to distend his was a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a comb, and a nightcap."42 So arithmetic grew voluminous till they embraced simple and compound interest,... | |
 | Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown - 2001 - 542 Seiten
...them that the stuffing was not composed of any prohibited article, inasmuch as it consisted merely of a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb and a nightcap ! The Hat has a brim turned up only on one side ; it is the latest fashion in the crown,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1843 - 640 Seiten
...who proved that he had used no one of the cloths named in the law, by showing that he used, instead, a pair of sheets, two tablecloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a glass, a comb, night-caps, &c. &c. Sometimes a fashion originates in the effort to hide some deformity. Thus the long... | |
 | 1854 - 528 Seiten
...person charged with violating this regulation, asserts in self-defence, that his own contained merely a pair of sheets, two table-cloths, ten napkins, four shirts, a brush, a comb, a glass, and a night-cap. It only remains to be added, that the dimensions of the trunk-bo«:... | |
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