 | John Worth Edmonds, George T. Dexter - 1853 - 580 páginas
...person present put it back on its four legs. I have seen a mahogany table, having only a center leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor...forward as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the lump retain its place, though its glass pendants rang again. I have seen the same table tipped up with... | |
 | John Bovee Dods - 1854 - 282 páginas
...person present put it back on its four legs. I have seen a mahogany table, having only a center leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor...hand, and the lamp retain its place, though its glass pendents rang again. I have seen the same table tipped up, with the lamp upon it, so that the lamp... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser - 1854 - 582 páginas
...it back on its four legs. He states that he has seen a mahogany table having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor...spite of the efforts of those present, and shaken backwards and forwards as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the lamp retain its place, though... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 páginas
...the sofa on which we sat. * * * * I have seen a mahogany centre-table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor,...forward, as one would shake a goblet in his hand. * * * * 1627. "I have known a dinner-bell, taken from a shelf in a closet, rung over the heads of four... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - 1855 - 138 páginas
...back of the sofa on which we sat. I have seen a mahogany centre-table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor,...backward and forward, as one would shake a goblet in bis hand. I have known a dinner-bell, taken from a shelf in a closet, rung over the heads of four or... | |
 | James Hackett Fowler - 1854 - 116 páginas
...the sofa on which we sat. * * * * I have seen a mahogany centre-table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor,...forward, as one would shake a goblet in his hand. * * * * I have known a dinner-bell, taken from a shelf in a closet, rung over the heads of four or... | |
 | J. W. Daniels - 1856 - 312 páginas
...the sofa on which we sat* . . . . I have seen a mahogany centre-table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor,...forward, as one would shake a goblet in his hand* . . . . I have known a dinner-bell, taken from a shelf in a closet, rung over the heads of four or... | |
 | 1857 - 498 páginas
...on which we sat I have seen a mahogany table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning on it, lifted from the floor at least a foot, in spite of the efforts of those present, and shaken backwards and forwards as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the lamp retain its place." Professor... | |
 | 1857 - 496 páginas
...on which we sat I have seen a mahogany table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning on it, lifted from the floor at least a foot, in spite of the efforts of those present, and shaken backwards and forwards as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the lamp retain its place." Professor... | |
 | 1860 - 1176 páginas
...upon it, '-"fd from the floor at feast a foot , in spite of the efforts of those present, and ¿i;u backward and forward as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the 'Ф retain its place, though its glass pendants rang again. I have seen the ;c table tipped up with... | |
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I have seen a mahogany table, having only a centre leg, and with a lamp burning upon it, lifted from the floor at least a foot, in spite of the efforts of those present, and shaken backward and forward as one would shake a goblet in his hand, and the... 
